The database at tallyvotes.org has been updated with the tally vote results, along with attendance records for all three sessions of the Fall Town Meeting.  Click the links below to see the results from each of the tally votes, or use the "Go to the database" button at the top of the page to access the full database search screen.

The database at tallyvotes.org has been updated with the results of this vote, along with attendance records from the first two sessions of the meeting.

Amherst's 2011 Fall Town Meeting began on Monday, November 7, 2011, with a single tally vote on the first night of the meeting.  Article 5 proposed appropriating $40,000 for the purpose of conducting a prospective residential market analysis for housing in Amherst.  The article passed with a vote of 97 YES, 60 NO.

The database at tallyvotes.org has been updated with the results of this vote, along with attendance records from the first session of the meeting.

Attendance at individual sessions ranged from a high of 78.4% on May 16 (the night the solar project on the old landfill was considered) to a low of 54.8% on May 25 (the final night of Town Meeting, which dealt with several minor zoning articles, along with zoning to allow backyard chickens and rabbits in residential neighborhoods).

The motion to reconsider went to a tally vote, and passed by a vote of 93 YES, 72 NO.  This reopened consideration of the Community Services budget appropriation, with another tally vote on Ms. Rueschmeyer's motion to increase the budget by around $65K.  This increase passed by a vote of 92 YES, 75 NO.

The database at tallyvotes.org has been updated with the results of these vote, along with attendance records from the first four sessions of the meeting.

The database at tallyvotes.org has been updated with the results of this vote, along with attendance records from the first two sessions of the meeting.

Previously, the results page showed descriptions of all the votes listed at the top of the page.  This worked well when there were only a dozen or so votes, but now that the page may be displaying close to 100 votes, it was becoming unwieldy.  Now, the vote descriptions are hidden by default, and you can access them by clicking the "Vote Descriptions" header at the top of the page.

This data can be accessed in several ways.  The sidebar on the left-hand side of the home page now includes a section called Town Election History, which has an entry for each individual election.  Each individual election, such as the 2008 election, has a page which lists all races in that election.  Each individual race, such as the 2008 Select Board, or the 2006 Precinct 9 Town Meeting, has a page which shows details on that race, with full results and vote totals (pages for upcoming races just list the candidates for the race).

In addition, the Town Meeting member detail pages, such as my own, now include a section at the bottom showing the full electoral history for that person.

The historical election data, like the tally vote data, is based on information available on the town website (the elections page is here).  The data available extends back into the early 1990s, but data prior to 2000 is incomplete.  Additional details will be added to the database as more data becomes available.

The database at tallyvotes.org has been updated with the tally vote results, along with attendance records for all five sessions of the Annual Town Meeting.  Click the link below to see the results from the tally vote, or use the "Go to the database" button at the top of the page to access the full database search screen.