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Fewer than half of New Orleans' 455,000 pre-Katrina residents are living in the city.Evacuees arrived by bus from as far as Atlanta and Houston to vote. More than 25,000 ballots were cast early by mail or fax or at satellite polling places set up around Louisiana earlier in the month.
Turnout, at about 38 per cent, was slightly higher than the April 22 primary.
Nagin, who had widespread support from white voters four years ago, lost much of that support in the primary but got a much stronger showing this