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...voter turnout, particularly in areas with many formerly rent-controlled apartment units, suggests that the conservative Alliance for Change may have fared well in yesterday's Cambridge city elections...
...first time since 1970, rent control is no longer an election issue, as the program was abolished by statewide referendum last November...
Despite this recent interest, Election Commissioner Wayne A. "Rusty" Drugan, Jr. said he expects a low turnout among Cambridge's 40,100 voters in this first election since rent control's demise...
Davis said voting rates would be depressed in lower-income areas, where tenants have moved from the city since the abolition of rent control by statewide referendum last November...
...candidates are doing a good job of addressing the issues, but they just don't have the voter following they did [in 1993] when rent control was around," Spears said...