Democratic voter Previn Warren ’04 said he was also impressed by Reich’s heavy campaigning at Harvard but worried that low student turnout would hurt his chances.

“He was depending on student support, but this isn’t support at all,” he said.

Only a handful of students showed up over the course of the day at the Mount Auburn polling place, where election workers told Warren he was still one of a very few Harvard voters to cast his ballot.

“It was a campaign full of bickering and contention, and I’m only the fourth person from Mather House to vote today,” he said. “It must be that general Harvard apathy.”

Local political observer Glenn S. Koocher ’71 said student voter turnout is typically low and this year’s numbers were not unusual.

“Students have historically turned out strongly only in presidential races, or when issues like rent control are at stake,” he said. “It’s really hard to get students interested in a local race, and nobody really knows how.”

—Staff writer Alexander L. Pasternack can be reached at apastern@fas.harvard.edu.