Kent county had the lowest voter turn-out since 2012, with 69% of registered voters casting ballots. Election turn-out in 2020 was 73% (72.58%), which was the highest since 2004.
County Turnout
2004
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
74.07%
72.37%
68.05%
69.12%
72.58%
68.8%
Turn-out in the city of Grand Rapids was 61.48%. Voter turnout in the city rose steadily until ~1:00pm and then rapidly declined, with extremely low rates of voting from 2:00pm until poll close.
The Winners
1st Ward : AliciaMarie Belchak w/54.95% (12,548) vs. Dean Pacific w/43.12% (9,846) : total of 22,394 votes
2nd Ward: Milinda Ysasi w/97.32% (22,038)
3rd Ward: Marshall Kilgore w/57.77% (14,479) vs. Bing Goei w/40.04% (10,034) : total of 24,513 votes
Mayor: David LaGrand w/62.54% (50,490) vs. Senita Lenear w/36.17% (29,201) : total of 79,691 votes, 10,476 more votes than were cast, in total, for City Commissioner seats.
On 2024-07-16 the City Commission and Planning Commission held a joint meeting to begin final review of the new Bridge To Our Future Master Plan. City Commissioners O'Connor (1st Ward) and Robbins (1st Ward) were absent. The format of the meeting is a presentation by the Planning Department and their consultants, followed by questions from City Commission and then the Planning Commission.
There will be a joint meeting of the Planning Commission and the City Commission on July 16th at 11:30am - 1:30pm in the City Commission Chambers to discuss the adoption of the new Master Plan. The 👉agenda item for this meeting👈 contains the proposed adoption schedule.
The WMCAT presentation to the City Commision with the results from the community out-reach events is available as PDF or ODP. The "original" Google Drive document is here.
The presentation to the City Commission on October 9th, 2018, is available on Youtube.
