Voter Turnout Lowest in Six Years

Carbon County saw its lowest voter turnout in six years during the primary election on August 20.

Voter turnout in Carbon County was 56.72%. Registered voters were also down from 2022, with only 5,388 registrations compared to the previous election’s 5,860.

Along party lines, voter turnout for Republicans was 60.21% while turnout for Democrats was 54.41%. Turnout for nonpartisans was 28.15%.

This is a significant decrease in voters from the previous primary election, which had 75.07% voter turnout.

Record turnouts were seen in 2022 in a heavily contested primary election for an open seat in th...