A little over a year ago, I wrote on the topic of college students and local elections. I included some data from local elections in Iowa City, specifically our city council elections in 2017 and 2018. The data provide support for the idea that college students don’t vote in local elections, and I argued the reason for this is that local elections don’t speak to their issues and material interests. In effect, they’ve got nothing at stake.
But this was just from a couple of data points. To compound the difficulties, one of the two data points was a primary for a special election. We’ve got more data now. This time from the November 2019 city council general election in Iowa City.
Let’s take a look!
