By Cynthia Grau/WJEZ News

While looking at election results, people may notice that voter turnout had very small numbers – some in the single digits.

Livingston County Clerk Kristy Masching explains why that happens.

“We have 22,861 registered voters. There was a little less than 4,000 cards cast for a percentage turnout of 17.36 percent for this consolidated election. In past history, we’ve had anywhere from 11 percent to 35 percent. Overall, we thought, with the 17.36 percent, it was a little above average for a consolidated election. One thing why it is usually a lower turnout is because there are so many uncontested races, so there’s a lot of voters who say there’s nobody to vote for, but there are. Each one of those people circulated petitions and they were happy to have votes,” Masching said.

Full election results from Tuesday are available at livingstoncountyil.gov.