February 3, 2012 - 1:49 pm

Fifty-one percent of respondents to this week’s online poll question — Who impressed you the most at Saturday’s (Jan. 28) candidate debate? — picked mayoral candidate Carl Diedrich.

Diedrich got 805 votes, while his opponent Christian Price got 569, or 36 percent.

Sixty-nine respondents, or 4 percent, liked city council candidate Bridger Kimball the best and Marvin Brown and Leon Potter got seven and four votes, respectively. City council candidate Rosalin Sanhadja, who could not attend because of an emergency root canal, got five votes. All three got a 0 percent.

Seventy-two respondents, or 5 percent, said they didn’t see the debate, and 62, or 4 percent, answered they don’t care about local politics.

The poll is unscientific and InMaricopa.com does not know who responds or where they live.

The deadline to register for the city election is Feb. 13. Qualified residents can register at the clerk’s office at Maricopa City Hall, 45145 W. Madison Ave., or online at www.servicearizona.com.

Maricopa’s is an entirely mail-in-ballot municipal election. According the Pinal County Recorder’s Office, the self-addressed, stamped ballots will be mailed beginning Feb. 16. They must be back to the county recorder’s office by 7 p.m. March 13. The county offices in Casa Grande, 820 E. Cottonwood Lane, will be open until 7 p.m. that day to accommodate voters hand-delivering their ballots.

The mayoral race should be decided in the primary.

In the council race, any candidate receiving 50 percent plus one vote will be elected in the primary. Otherwise, the other open seats will be decided in the May 15 general election.