Election '18 tally: Old in, young out

You can take Dan English out of the elections, but you can’t take the elections out of Dan English.

Kootenai County’s longtime former clerk, whose job included overseeing local elections, has analyzed the November results and come away with some interesting digits. He notes that his analysis is not meant to represent an official report from the Kootenai County Elections Office or County Clerk Jim Brannon.

“I’m just the old election trivia guy,” he said.

Well, toss this in your trivia cup and sip it: 469 people age 90 to 99 cast ballots locally. There were 10 voters over the age of 100.

On the other end of that spectrum, the youth vote was underwhelming. Of 57,011 votes cast, only 2,373 came from the group aged 18 to 24. That’s 4.2 percent.

(Silver lining seekers, at least that represents an increase over dismal numbers from the primary election, when only 3 percent of the vote came from the youngest age category.)

Generally speaking, the older the category, the more likely folks were to vote. Here’s Dan’s breakdown:

- Age 25-29: 2,210 votes (3.9 percent of total vote)

- Age 30-39: 6,400 votes (11.2 percent)

- Age 40-49: 7,631 (13.4 percent)

- Age 50-59: 10,253 (18 percent)

- Age 60+: 28,141 (49.4 percent)