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Don't Expect High Turnout for Primary Election Tuesday

Historically only about 30 percent of voters cast primary ballots.
by Christopher Conover

Your Vote 2016 Elections spot AZPM provides in-depth local and national coverage of the 2016 elections.

If history is an accurate predictor, most people will not vote in Tuesday’s primary election.

Fifty-two percent of Arizona's registered voters cast ballots in the presidential preference election earlier this year, but that number was considered an anomaly.

In previous primaries, turnout has hovered between 25 and 30 percent statewide.

Turnout was 27 percent in Arizona's last statewide primary. In Pima County, 30 percent of voters cast ballots in that 2014 election.

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