Politics & Government
Seventy-Four Percent Of SLP Residents Said 'No' To Marriage Amendment
Voters in the mostly suburban cities Patch covers were more opposed to the proposed gay-marriage ban than Minnesota voters generally.
St. Louis Park residents overwhelmingly rejected the marriage amendment on the Nov. 6 ballot.
A total of 73.63 percent of voters (21,153 votes) said no to the amendment that would have added a definition of marriage as only between one man and one woman to the state Constitution.
The "Yes" votes in St. Louis Park totaled 7,738 (26.37 percent).
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Here's how residents in a selection of Minnesota cities voted on the ballot measure.
Statewide, the ballot measure failed to exceed the 50 percent level of support it needed in the Nov. 6, 2012 general election. It got 47.53 percent, according to unofficial results from all but two of Minnesota's 4,102 precincts' results.
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Taken together, people in cities served by Patch—mostly in the Twin Cities suburbs—rejected the marriage amendment in greater proportion (61.21 percent) than Minnesotans taken as a whole (52.47 percent).
Support for the amendment in places covered by Patch ranged from 14.51 percent in Southwest Minneapolis to 54.23 percent in St. Michael—the only Patch city where a majority of voters backed the measure.
Even without Southwest Minneapolis' urban neighborhoods where opposition ran deep, the combined vote from the rest of the Minnesota cities with Patch websites registered 59.54 percent against the marriage amendment.
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Lake Minnetonka Patch covers several cities, including Minnetrista, Tonka Bay, Wayzata, Mound, Shorewood, Orono, Spring Park, Deephaven, Long Lake and Excelsior.
Stillwater Patch covers Stillwater, Lake Elmo and Oak Park Heights.
Northfield has one precinct in Dakota County and the rest in Rice County.
Southwest Minneapolis Patch covers these precincts:
- Ward 8: Precincts 2, 6, 7
- Ward 10: Precincts 3–6
- Ward 11: Precincts 1–3
- Ward 13: Precincts 1–9
NOTE: These are unofficial figures until canvassing boards verify them. They are the figures available on Nov. 9, 2012, but they may change as election workers revise estimates of total ballots cast, and tallies of ballots with Yes, No, or no vote at all for the amendment.
Here are the Minnesota Secretary of State's definitions for the columns in the table above:
- Estimated Percent of YES: YES divided by Estimated Total Number of Voters, displayed as a percentage
- Yes: Actual YES votes cast
- No: Actual NO votes cast
- Estimated Blanks: Estimated total number of voters minus Yes votes and No votes
- Estimated Total Number of Voters: Calculated using votes for U.S. President & Vice President or actual statistics
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