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Another year completed, so that means an update on our average vote totals:

Year | Average | % Increase / Decrease
1999 | 4408 |
2000 | 7062 | 60.21%
2001 | 14019 | 98.51%
2002 | 34435 | 145.63%
2003 | 55397 | 60.87%
2004 | 54598 | -1.44%
2005 | 56643 | 3.75%
2006 | 74644 | 31.78%
2007 | 87908 | 17.77%
2008 | 91112 | 3.64%
2009 | 85797 | -5.83%
2010 | 72588 | -15.40%
2011 | 56882 | -21.64%
2012 | 42981 | -24.44%
2013 | 36506 | -15.06%
2014 | 27323 | -25.15%
2015 | 21162 | -22.55%
2016 | 17492 | -17.34%
2017 | 14282 | -18.35%
2018 | 11360 | -20.46%
2019 | 10464 | -7.89%
2020 | 10483 | 0.18%
2021 | 9471 | -9.65%

Following a year where the vote totals held steady from the previous year, I really thought we had finally hit rock bottom and reached a stabilization point with our vote totals. Turns out that wasn't the case. Perhaps the first year of the COVID pandemic played a role in preventing vote totals from dropping in 2020 compared to our 2019 vote totals. Maybe it was likely that was just a temporary trend, and the normal trend of declining vote totals would return when the world finally got somewhat back to normal (with the vaccines).

Just like how it's very difficult to predict what the COVID virus is going to do in the future, it's also quite difficult to predict our vote totals will change in the future as well. Only one thing is certain so far with our vote totals, and that's the continuation of a declining trend. I've given up trying to predict when this trend will come to a stop, either by reaching a point where vote totals have finally stabilized or even an increase in vote totals.

December 2021 was the first full month where every single poll got below 10000 votes. You have to go all way back to September 2000 for the previous time that happened in a single month.

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