Easily explained. While the incorporated town may be at 700 residents...if you go a foot beyond the line (rural territory), you probably have another 600 folks within a mile or two of the city limits.
I grew up on a farm that was 3 miles from the town, and we were never part of the population, but always voted there.
Easy enough to pull how many people had that location as their polling place, and how many of them actually voted.
I don’t think this is so easily explained.
If you pull up the “ballots cast” sheet, go to the Coos county tab and look at Columbia, you see a total of 309 votes cast.
You also see a total of 13167 votes cast for all of Coos county.
However if you go to the results for Senator, go to the Coos county tab and look at Columbia, you see a total of 1303 votes cast.
You also see a total of 13903 votes cast for all of Coos county.
My first thought was similar to yours. However it doesn’t make sense that their breakdown of counties and localities from the “ballots cast” sheet to the “us senator” sheet would use different groupings/boundaries. And certainly the number of votes for Senator in Coos county shouldn’t exceed the votes cast in Coos county.
Ballots cast sheet:
https://www.sos.nh.gov/sites/g/files/ehbemt561/files/inline-documents/sonh/2022-ge-ballots-cast.xls
Senate sheet:
https://www.sos.nh.gov/sites/g/files/ehbemt561/files/inline-documents/sonh/2022-ge-us-senator_1.xls
I also thought that the town was just a small part of the voting area, but then I looked at wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia,_New_Hampshire
The town’s area is 61 square miles. The term ‘town’ might mean something different than it does in Ohio.
“At the 2000 census there were 750 people, 300 households, and 218 families living in the town. The population density was 12.3 people per square mile (4.8/km2). There were 449 housing units at an average density of 7.4 per square mile (2.8/km2). “
750/61 = 12.3 like Wikipedia claims.
“The age distribution was 24.8% under the age of 18”
750 - 750(.248) = 564 potential voters
Please check my math and other claims. It is 0530 and I have not had my hot chocolate yet.
Yep. Took six posts for someone to state the obvious. Thanks.