Primary Election                    General Election
Year  Number of Ballots Cast    Pct.    Number of Ballots Cast    Pct.

1962           Not available             156,167 of  5,929,602    2.6

1964           Not available             304,858 of  7,233,067    4.2

1966     95,993 of 5,079,911    1.9%     218,242 of  6,505,866    3.3

1968    144,484 of 5,723,047    2.5      334,365 of  7,363,711    4.5

1970    100,455 of 5,011,908    2.0      204,143 of  6,633,400    3.0

1972    204,216 of 6,460,220    3.2      405,668 of  8,595,950    4.7

1973          Not applicable              97,970 of  4,329,179    2.3

1974    159,831 of 5,128,375    3.1      216,618 of  6,364,597    3.4

1976           Not available             366,535 of  8,137,202    4.5

1978    325,518 of 6,843,001    4.7      314,258 of  7,132,210    4.4

1980    343,875 of 6,774,184    5.0      549,007 of  8,775,459    6.2

1982    326,213 of 5,846,026    5.6      525,186 of  8,064,314    6.5

1984    418,109 of 5,609,063    7.5      913,574 of  9,796,375    9.3

1986    426,133 of 4,937,936    8.6      685,340 of  7,617,142    9.0

1988    572,057 of 6,037,468    9.48   1,434,853 of 10,194,539   14.1

1990    808,837 of 5,386,545   15.02   1,452,139 of  7,899,131   18.38

1992  1,073,067 of 6,439,629   16.66   1,950,562 of 11,374,565   17.15

1993          Not applicable           1,156,214 of  5,282,443   21.89
  
1994  1,011,563 of 4,966,827   20.37   2,009,586 of  8,900,632   22.05

1996  1,415,176 of 6,081,777   23.27%

Note: In 1978 the laws governing absentee voting were changed to allow the mail ballot to be used by any eligible voter without regard to meeting certain criteria, such as being away on business on election day, expecting to be hospitalized on election day, election day conflicting with a religious holiday, and similar criteria which had been required to permit voting by absentee ballot.