Greenfield's Recall Results Mirrored 2010

A whopping 80 percent of the 21,015 registered voters in Greenfield turned out for Tuesday’s historic recall election and overwhelmingly showed their support for Gov. Scott Walker.

Both the and replicated what happened across the state, and neither candidate saw any change in their popularity in Greenfield between the first time Walker defeated Barrett in 2010 and Tuesday.

In Tuesday’s recall, Walker won 18 of 21 wards with 9,522 votes, or 56.6 percent of the 16,822 ballots cast across the city.

Mayor Tom Barrett, who was victorious in Wards 3,4 and 17, claimed 42.6 percent, or 7,167 votes.

In 2010, approximately 1,900 fewer people voted, but the split was virtually identical to the recall election: Walker gained 56.5 percent of the vote and Barrett 42.6.

In 2010, Walker carried 19 of 21 wards, losing only Nos. 8 and 17 to Barrett.

Tuesday’s turnout was almost double that of May’s gubernatorial primary election and about 7 percent less than the 2008 presidential election.

“This has been like a presidential election," poll worker Denise Collins told Patch on Tuesday. "We had a big crowd (waiting to get in at 7 a.m.), bigger than usual, and it's been steady every since."

The governor’s biggest margin of victory Tuesday came in Ward 11 where he defeated Barrett, 745-335.

Ward 11’s vote total of 1,082 was second only to Ward’s 20 (1,152) and 19 (1,138). In 2010, only one ward – Ward 19 with 1,099 votes – surpassed 1,000 voters.

Independent Hari Trivedi collected less than one percent of the vote (81 votes total) Tuesday.