{"id":199035,"date":"2026-05-21T17:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/199035\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T17:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:20:11","slug":"local-primary-ballot-numbers-lower-than-erie-county-average-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/199035\/","title":{"rendered":"Local primary ballot numbers lower than Erie County average | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Tuesday\u2019s primary election saw not only a low voter turnout in Corry, but throughout Erie County.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Numbers ranged between 12% to 17% locally, with the exception in Elgin Borough, which had a 32.35% turnout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Corry is broken into three wards for ballot counting, with Elgin Borough, Wayne Township and Concord Township being their own ballot precincts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Voting figures are according to <a href=\"http:\/\/eriecountycouncilpa.gov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eriecountycouncilpa.gov<\/a>, and are as follows for the local area:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2022Corry Ward 1 \u2014 located at the Corry Community Center, 15 S. First Ave., has 794 registered voters, of which 135 voted, with a 17% turnout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2022Corry Ward 2 \u2014 located at Center Street Evangelical Church, 921 N. Center St., has 990 registered voters, of which 151 voted, with a 15.25% turnout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2022Corry Ward 3 \u2014 located at First Presbyterian Church of Corry, 607 W Smith St., has 1,664 registered voter, of which 212 voted, with a 12.74% turnout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2022Elgin Borough \u2014 Elgin-Beaverdam Fire Hall, 17920 N. Main St., has 137 registered voters, of which 45 voted, with a 32.85% turnout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2022Wayne Township \u2014\u00a0 Elgin-Beaverdam Fire Hall, 17920 N. Main St., has 1,067 registered voters, of 190 voted, with 16.67% turnout.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2022Concord Township \u2014 Concord Township Municipal Building, 12677 Ormsbee Road, has 828 registered voters, of which 229 voted, with 16.67% turnout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2022Erie County \u2014 overall has 174,981 registered voters, of which 36,105 voted, with a 20.63%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Elgin Borough and Wayne Township share a polling station at the Elgin-Beaverdam Fire Hall. All numbers are part of the unofficial count and may be subject to correction depending on new voter turnout information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday\u2019s primary election saw not only a low voter turnout in Corry, but throughout Erie County.\u00a0 Numbers ranged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,139],"class_list":["post-199035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}