10 Bockelman, “Local Government in Colonial Pennsylvania,” 216-37.
11 In various elections of legislators and local officers throughout the Delaware Valley, the following levels of turnout were recorded (as a percentage of adult white males):
Place |
Year |
Turnout |
Place |
Year |
Turnout |
Bucks Co., Pa. |
1738 |
26% |
Philadelphia Co., Pa. |
1727 |
|
|
1739 |
19% |
|
1728 |
|
|
1740 |
22% |
|
1730 |
|
|
1765 |
46% |
|
1732 |
|
|
1742 |
38% |
|
1734 |
|
Chester Co., Pa. |
1737 |
29% |
|
1735 |
|
|
1738 |
37% |
|
1736 |
|
|
1739 |
32% |
|
1737 |
|
|
1742 |
32% |
|
1738 |
|
|
1765 |
22% |
|
1739 |
|
|
|
|
|
1740 |
|
Lancaster Co., Pa. |
1737 |
31% |
|
1741 |
|
|
1738 |
40% |
|
1742 |
|
|
1740 |
34% |
|
1743 |
|
|
1741 |
37% |
|
|
|
|
1742 |
45% |
Philadelphia City, Pa. |
1737 |
|
|
1749 |
32% |
|
1742 |
|
|
1757 |
14% |
|
1751 |
|
|
1765 |
48% |
|
1757 |
|
|
|
|
|
1758 |
|
Middlesex Co., N.J. |
1754 |
49% |
|
1764 |
|
Kent Co., Del. |
1751 |
48% |
|
1765 |
|
|
|
|
|
1766 |
|
|
|
|
|
1774 |
|
|
|
|
|
1775 |
|
Sources: Robert J. Dinkin, Voting in Provincial America (Westmont, Conn., 1977), 158-59; Tully, William Penn’s Legacy, 93; Chilton Williamson, American Suffrage from Property to Democracy (Princeton, 1960), 34; Richard P. McCormick, History of Voting in New Jersey (New Brunswick, 1963), 63; David P. Peltier, “Border State Democracy: A History of Voting in Delaware, 1682-1897” (thesis, Univ. of Del., 1967), 36.