There was 5,049 people who voted either by absentee ballot or in the seven days of early voting in the Tampa District 6 City Council runoff.
And today, Election Day, where lately there have been fewer people voting? As of 3 p.m. 1,078 people have gone old school and gone to the polls today. That makes for a total of 6,327 voters all told. That’s 12.8 percent of the eligible voters in the District 6 race.
There’s a total of 51,964 registered voters in the district, which encompasses West Tampa, Seminole Heights and a slice of South Tampa.
Guido Maniscalco and Jackie Toledo are battling it out in tonight’s runoff election. Maniscalco is trying to overcome a major deficit from the first election, in which he garnered just 29 percent of the vote to Toledo’s 46 percent. Third-place finisher Tommy Castellano received 25 percent of the vote. He endorsed Maniscalco three weeks ago.
If Toledo wins, she becomes the first Republican on the board in four years. Joe Caetano represented District 7 as a Republican from 2007-2011, but lost his bid for re-election to Democrat Lisa Montelione in 2011.
