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Initiative: Question 7: Uniform Electric Rates | Popular Vote |
 | No |
1,793,022 |
74.66% |
 | Yes |
608,691 |
25.34% |
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| Election Notes:
- The proposed act would impose a general requirement that every electric utility company charge a uniform rate per kilowatt hour of electricity. The proposed act would except from this general rule rates charged to other electric utility companies and to residential customers who heat their principle place of residence by electricity. The Act would also permit a different rate to be charged residential customers for the first three hundred (300) kilowatt hours they consume each month, and would authorize "peak load" pricing whereby a higher rate than the uniform rate per kilowatt hour may be charged during the periods of the day or seasons of the year when consumption of electricity is the greatest. The Act would authorize the Department of Public Utilities to issue implementing rules and regulations and provides for enforcement.
| Demographic Data
| 1980 Population: | 5,737,093 | Enum. | 1980 Population Density: | 282.5 | persons/km2 | | 1976 Population: | 5,748,868 | Est. | 1976 Population Density: | 283.1 | persons/km2 | | 1970 Population: | 5,689,170 | Enum. | 1970 Population Density: | 280.2 | persons/km2 | | Land Area (2000): | 20,306 | km2 | Annual Pop Growth Rate: | 0.1 | % |
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Data Sources:
- Source for Popular Vote data: Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth. Elections Division. PD43+ Massachusetts Election Statistics, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth. Elections Division (http://electionstats.state.ma.us/ballot_questions/view/159/) (accessed 29 Jul 2015)
- Source for Population data: U.S. Census Bureau.
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