• Sep 2005 Primary
• Mayoral race
• City Council At-large
• Voter Turnout
• Nov 2005 General
• Mayoral race
• City Council At-large
• Miscellaneous

2005 Toledo Elections

Toledo Talk threads :

• Aug 3, 2005 - Open thread discussing Toledo's mayoral candidates - (223 Comments)
• Aug 18, 2005 - City Council Candidates - (36 Comments)
• Aug 2005 - Meet the candidates forum
• Carty Finkbeiner's 2005 Mayoral Campaign Promises

Sep 2005 Primary

• Sep 13, 2005 - Primary election results - (81 Comments)

Mayoral race

Top 2 make it to November

xx Carty Finkbeiner	15283	36.74%
x Jack Ford	10910	26.23%
Keith Wilkowski	9750	23.44%
Rob Ludeman	5386	12.95%
Opal Covey	110	0.26%
Don Gozdowski	91	0.22%
Martin Okonski	64	0.15%

xx = former two-term mayor
x = mayor in 2005

City Council At-large

Top 12 make it to November

+ Bob McCloskey	20083	11.43%
+ Phil Copeland	18454	10.5%
+ Betty Shultz	17580	10%
+ Frank Szollosi	16279	9.26%
+ George Sarantou	15351	8.74%
Mark Sobczak	13225	7.53%
Karen Shanahan	12660	7.2%
+ Karyn M. Hancock	12597	7.17%
Bob Vasquez	12283	6.99%
Dave Schulz	9943	5.66%
Terry Shankland	6531	3.72%
Ernie Berry	5373	3.06%
Mitch Balonek	4928	2.8%
Jason M. Schreiner	4338	2.47%
Thomas Meinecke	3428	1.95%
Robert L. Tilton	2678	1.52%

+ = already on city council in 2005

Voter Turnout

September 2005 primary voter turnout info

"22 percent of registered Toledo voters cast ballots."

22%, that seems like a respectable turnout for a Sep election in today's world. It was higher than P-burg's turnout.

22% of 189,454 registered Toledo voters = 41,680 Toledoans voted on Tuesday.

According to the 2000 census, Toledo has 231,488 people age 18 and over. Now maybe all wouldn't be eligible to vote for whatever reason, I don't know. Let's say 220,000 people in Toledo are eligible to vote. That means the real voter turnout was at most 19%, which isn't much different than the reported number.

But it's a glaring stat that at least 80% of Toledoans don't care very much about politics, which may not be a bad thing. Maybe politics is severly overrated in today's world. Maybe politics is a leftover relic from a bygone era. Maybe the problem isn't with the 80% who didn't vote but with the 20% who put too much emphasis on politics. Maybe the 80% think the 20% are wasting their time and would be more productive by ignoring politics.

Nov 2005 General

• Nov 8, 2005 - 2005 election results - (170 Comments)

Mayoral race

Carty Finkbeiner	47,351	61%
Jack Ford	29,169	38%

City Council At-large

Top 6 take office

Phil Copeland	38,044	11%
Bob McCloskey	36,421	10%
Mark Sobczak	34,895	10%
George Sarantou	32,961	9%
Betty Shultz	32,044	9%
Frank Szollosi	30,253	9%
Bob Vasquez	28,014	8%
Karen Shanahan	26,742	7%
Karyn Hancock	24,209	7%
Dave Schulz	20,181	6%
Terry Shankland	17,804	5%
Ernie Berry	12,942	3%
Amanda Scott-Rice	282	0%

Mark Sobczak was the only new person elected.

Miscellaneous

Jun 24, 2005 - Karyn McConnell Hancock - her bid for re-election to city council was probably harmed by this event prior to the primary:

[Hancock was] driving with an expired driver's license and expired tags. When the tow truck was called (Standard procedure) she stated she was a City Councilperson and Chief Navarre was called. The tow was cancelled.

Feb 10, 2006 - Bob McCloskey indicted - (62 Comments) - some of McCloskey's questionable dealings were known before the November 2005 election, but he was still the number two vote-getter.

Apr 23, 2006 - Toledo Blade - Copeland, Sarantou favored by party voters for Lucas County commissioner. Even though both won their city council re-election bids only months earlier, Copeland and Sarantou ran for county commissioner.

Mr. Copeland is the nephew of the late Bill Copeland, a former city councilman and former county commissioner. Some of Phil Copeland's support appears to come from voters who are associating him with his uncle. "If my uncle's name is helping me, I'm thanking him right now," Mr. Copeland said. "I'll take it any day. He had a good name, and I'm trying to keep it up. … If they think I'm Bill Copeland, that's fine with me."

In November 2005, maybe some or much of Copeland's support for council also came from people who thought they were voting for the late Bill Copeland.

Lucas County Democrat Teams - last updated in July 2007

Stainbrook takes control of Lucas County Republican Party - June 2008 - Maybe local 'A' and 'B' Republican teams will be created too.

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