The unofficial turnout stat for Tuesday's primary election: 34.37 percent.
State election officials and anecdotal reports from election day suggested the turnout this year could surpass four years ago -- driven mostly by interest in the constitutional marriage amendment -- but it fell shy.
In the 2008 primary -- featuring a heated battle between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton -- 36.86 percent of voters went to the polls.
But more people did vote in 2012 (read: population growth) at 2,164,074 compared to 2,125,215 in 2008.
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late totals - absentees and provisionsal
May 9, 2012 - 12:00pm — gercohenThere are probably 2,500 absentee ballots to be added to the totals next Tuesday, plus in 2008 there were 17,116 provisional ballots counted in the primary, I'd expect a similar number this year. So those two numbers will boost the final turnout a bit.