Section 5 Changes by Type and Year
- Totals
- Annual Totals -- 2010s
- Annual Totals -- 2000s
- Annual Totals -- 1990s
- Annual Totals -- 1980s
- Annual Totals -- 1970s
- Annual Totals -- 1960s
| TYPE | Totals 1965-89 |
Totals 1990-99 |
Totals 2000-09 |
Totals 2010-12 |
TOTAL 1965-2012 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Redistricting | 3,846 | 3,456 | 3,141 | 991 | 11,434 |
| Annexation | 32,212 | 31,963 | 40,715 | 5,436 | 110,326 |
| Polling Place | 46,458 | 41,257 | 31,522 | 6,473 | 125,710 |
| Precinct | 21,579 | 26,824 | 15,781 | 3,401 | 67,585 |
| Reregistration
or Voter Purge |
1,232 | 101 | 36 | 5 | 1,374 |
| Incorporation | 1,436 | 1,588 | 1,858 | 245 | 5,127 |
| Bilingual Procedures | 2,980 | 997 | 1,523 | 411 | 5,911 |
| Method of Election | 4,634 | 7,819 | 5,951 | 1,702 | 20,106 |
| Form of Government | 1,665 | 519 | 396 | 123 | 2,703 |
| Consolidation or
Division of Political Units |
199 | 629 | 792 | 175 | 1,795 |
| Special Election | 7,126 | 11,879 | 14,128 | 3,202 | 36,335 |
| Voting Methods | 1,525 | 1,697 | 6,313 | 1,082 | 10,617 |
| Candidate Qualifications | 478 | 2,004 | 1,594 | 611 | 4,687 |
| Voter Registration Procedures | 20,458 | 19,117 | 4,728 | 672 | 44,975 |
| Miscellaneous | 13,942 | 23,190 | 41,745 | 13,295 | 92,172 |
| Election Law | 206 | 7,568 | 0 | 0 | 7,774 |
| Not Within the Scope
of Section 5 |
29 | 642 | 0 | 0 | 671 |
| Totals
1965-89 |
Totals
1990-99 |
Totals
2000-09 |
Totals
2010-12 |
TOTAL
1965-2012 |
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| TOTALS 1965-2012 | 168,215 | 173,040 | 170,223 | 37,824 | 549,302 |
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