200,000 votes, less than 5% turnout, that’s why these people keep getting elected. I am so glad I got out of there.
That’s such a paltry turnout that in a comparable city in population, Chicago, you’d have to go back to the April 1893 Mayoral election to see 200k total vote for both sides (and at the time, they only had about 1.2 million, half of Houston’s current population).
For such a close election, you would think the voter turnout would be better. Sylvester has been wanting that job for a long time, and probably got help from Porker’s followers to keep the mayors office in democrat control.