Ouster attempts, off-the-ballot action and other highlights: 2024 Political Roundup
Shelby County residents prepare to vote at Whitehaven Community Center on Election Day Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (Benjamin Naylor/Special to The Daily Memphian file)
The most popular election cycle in Shelby County politics brought out a majority of the county’s 600,000 voters last year.
But the 54.5% turnout for the presidential general election was the lowest turnout for the cycle since at least 1968. That’s as far back as voter turnout records go on the Shelby County Election Commission’s website.
For those who participated in the only election cycle that consistently draws a majority of the county’s voters, the presidential campaigns that drive turnout and fuel state and local campaigns were distant presences on television and social media.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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