Politics & Government
Oak Lawn Mayor Race: By the Numbers
A precinct-by-precinct breakdown of votes cast in the 2013 Oak Lawn mayoral election.
With few contested local races and based on the dismal voter turnout in the 2011 consolidated election – Dave Heilmann had everything going for him heading into April 9 in his third mayoral bid over newcomer Sandra Bury.
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Conventional wisdom says that low voter turnout usually favors the incumbent, putting the burden on the challenger to bring new voters to the polling booth.
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Overall, voter turnout in suburban Cook County was 19 percent, up two points from 2011’s low turnout of 17 percent, according to the Cook County Clerk's office.
Like many south suburbs with contested mayoral races, Oak Lawn’s voter turnout averaged higher than the rest of Cook County, with 30 percent of the village's 35,900 registered voters casting early ballots or going to the polls on April 9.
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Heilmann won eleven of the village’s 41 precincts—two of them split precincts. The two-term incumbent fared best in Dist. 5, his home district represented by his friend and village board ally Trustee Carol Quinlan. Heilmann won seven of Dist. 5’s nine precincts.
Heilmann tied with Bury in another split precinct in Dist. 3/5– the same troublesome Sward School precinct where a handful of voters received the wrong ballots in the oh/so/close Dist. 3 trustee race in 2011, in which Trustee Bob Streit barely beat write-in candidate Dan Sodaro.
The only Dist. 5 precinct not won by Heilmann was precinct 28, at Richards High School.
Outside of Dist. 5, Heilmann picked up two precincts in running mate Melissa Moran's Dist. 4 home turf, who lost her own race for village clerk against Jane Quinlan. Heilmann also won a single precinct in Dist. 3.
Bury swept Dist. 1 and Dist. 2. She won all six precincts in her home district—Dist. 2—where she resides and had the heavy backing of Trustee Alex Olejniczak, who was elected to his third term as Dist. 2 trustee.
Bury and Trustee-elect Tim Desmond also swept Dist. 1’s eight precincts, and Bury won all but one of Dist. 6’s eight precincts, where a split Dist. 5/6 precinct went to her opponent.
Here is a precinct-by-precinct breakdown of the 2013 mayoral race:
PrecinctDist.Registered Voters
Ballots
Cast
Worth 1
1 602 133 55 77 132 Worth 22
1,135 327 125 199 324 Worth 3
3
881 343 176 164 340 Worth 4
5
1,387 78 39 38 77 Worth 5
6
951 399 194 200 394 Worth 11
5
908 312 165 142 307 Worth 21
1
1,489 218 93 121 214 Worth 25
2
1,084 388 142 242 384 Worth 26
1
848 161 64 96 160 Worth 27
3
778 249 92 154 246 Worth 28 5
670 93 43 47 90 Worth 30 1
1,059 302 122 177 299 Worth 33 3
962 210 71 136 207 Worth 35 3/5
1,033 345 171 171 342 Worth 36 4
992 280 138 139 277 Worth 40 2/4
1,028 233 98 130 228 Worth 41 6
496 205 85 120 205 Worth 44 1
726 173 75 97 172 Worth 46 3
1,071 369 180 186 366 Worth 48 4
637 215 100 112 212 Worth 49 6
569 191 81 107 188 Worth 56 5
949 416 263 150 413 Worth 58 2
1,025 331 131 198 329 Worth 60 3
552 240 113 123 236 Worth 62 6
517 239 97 140 237 Worth 63 4
939 260 130 128 258 Worth 66 1 798 190 83 105 188 Worth 74 1
563 149 61 86 147 Worth 75 6
1,107 336 151 182 333 Worth 76 1
527 82 34 44 78 Worth 77 6
940 330 118 207 325 Worth 84 6
969 363 106 254 360 Worth 85 3/5
870 307 168 136 304 Worth 91 5
509 172 102 68 170 Worth 92 4
957 387 180 204 384 Worth 93 4
526 163 88 73 161 Worth 94 2
1,132 355 115 236 351 Worth 96 4
1,042 216 106 107 213 Worth 98 5
1,069 343 220 122 342 Worth 99 2
663 195 68 127 195 Worth 100 5/6
940 326 204 115 319 Worth Township Results
35,900 10,624 4,847 5,660 10,507
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- End of Era at Worth Township
- Oak Lawn Elects First Woman Mayor
- Heilmann Reflects on Mayoral Loss
- Independents Sweep Mayor's Slate in Oak Lawn Trustee Races
- Live Oak Lawn Election Results 2013
- ELECTION 2013: Nearby Contested Race Results
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