Just under 16% of the electorate voted - in line with poor turnouts around the country.
And low turnouts at local elections show that people do not identify with their council.
The DPJ has won a string of local contests in recent weeks, with significantly increased turnouts.
"I was really very, very much impressed and strengthened by the turnouts, " the mayor said.
Britain's two most recent elections (in 2001 and 2005) saw historically low turnouts, of 59% and 61% respectively.
In local council elections, turnouts can be even worse That happens where local government isn't seen as sufficiently relevant.
But the low turnouts (only 10-15% in some cities) favoured the religious conservatives.
And in many countries, local polls draw miserable turnouts, yet those who win are no less legitimate for that.
Turnouts ranged from a low of 13.1% in Spelthorne to 19.8% in Mole Valley, with an overall total of 15.7%.
Firstly, states use different systems - primaries and caucuses - and caucus states tend to have lower turnouts than primary states.
By-elections with low turnouts can often exaggerate and distort the picture - and it is dangerous to read too much into them.
Crowd counts vary, but turnouts at Sadrist demonstrations are probably under 10, 000.
Some 58% of the 18m registered voters (out of a total population of 34m) cast their ballots, a marked rise from previous turnouts.
This is partly because they pile up big majorities on high turnouts in safe seats, whereas Labour wins its safe seats on lower turnouts.
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This shows in consistently high turnouts in the primaries, a trend Mr Bush's campaign team must hope does not carry over to the general election.
And getting all those 2.6 million people to polling stations will be a major challenge, if previous turnouts of 30-40% are anything to go by.
Her constituency has one of the lowest turnouts in the country.
And memories of the triumphant, tea party-driven 2010 election ignore the most important point looking forward: Mid-term elections have much smaller turnouts than those in presidential years.
Mr Bosley captured an almost equal percentage of black voters, but higher turnouts in white districts doomed the first black mayor of St Louis to a three-to-two defeat.
Most of the establishment Republicans it helped to upset in primaries in 2010 were the victims of low turnouts and peculiar circumstances unlikely to be repeated in the presidential campaign.
While most programs do not charge admission for Midnight Madness, large turnouts nonetheless pose the opportunity to churn revenue in the form of merchandise and concession sales at the arena.
Historically, lower voter turnouts have benefited Republicans in Pennsylvania.
Turnouts are higher in primary elections, but even in South Carolina and Florida, where millions were spent on campaign ads, the primary electorate represented no more than 25% of all registered voters.
Despite the large turnouts, many advocates of looser immigration laws felt they were outmaneuvered by opponents who flooded congressional offices with phone calls and faxes at the behest of conservative talk-radio hosts.
Holding the referendum on the same day as elections for the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and some English local authorities may result in differential turnouts across the country and a skewed result.
Incredibly, in the face of contrary evidence, a number of polls used the 2008 model for this election although there was little objective evidence that those turnouts would hold for this contest.
All over Georgia, conservative precincts reported higher-than-expected turnouts.
Despite the large turnouts six years ago, many advocates of looser immigration laws felt they were outmaneuvered by opponents who flooded congressional offices with phone calls and faxes at the behest of conservative talk-radio hosts.
"We're here at a time when I sense that people are scared for our country, and that's why we're having big turnouts, " he said of the audiences that were mostly conservative but also included left-leaning Iowans.
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