Interesting Numbers from the Midterm Election

Since I love numbers, I found this article at StlToday.com quite interesting. On Tuesday night it seemed like the Country Executive race between Dooley and Corrigan would be very close, and it was with Dooley winning by just over 3% of the vote (51.04% to 46.79%), but in reality if you look at the votes from township to township there are hardly any close races there at all. There are 28 townships in the county and out of all of these there were only three townships where the votes fell within a 5% range of each other (Northwest: 49.1% Dooley 47.9% Corrigan, Clayton: 46.9% Dooley, 51.7% Corrigan, and Jefferson: 49.8% Dooley, 48.6% Corrigan). In all the other townships there was at least a 5% gap and in most the gap was huge, from Normandy and Norwood at nearly 90% Dooley, to Chesterfield being over 70% for Corrigan. There is definitely a large split in the voting preferences of the county with North County being strongly Democratic and West and South County being strongly Republican. The Central townships are always the most interesting ones to watch and we often determine who wins the elections. I noticed in this election that Dooley did not carry Clayton township (where I live) and he just barely won in Jefferson (the closest race) which is usually a pretty solid Democratic area with Webster Groves, Warson Woods and Shrewsbury.

Coincidentally the St. Louis county property taxes were just posted on the county website a couple days after the election, and most folks will not be pleased to see their property taxes go up while their home values do not. Since we did pass a bond issue in Ladue Schools this April I knew ours were going up, but it still is never fun to have to pay more in taxes. StlToday posted the school district increases and ours only increased a modest 4.03% whereas some districts had huge rate increases of 15% to 20% (Webster, Brentwood, MRH.) Our rate is still the lowest in the county so suppose I cannot complain too much. My mother-in-law owns a condo in Brentwood so I just checked her property tax and it went up by 14.5%. That is quite a spike. It is scary how easy it is to check all this public information online. Anyone can check how much you pay for property tax and when (and if) you paid them.

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