Richard Starr bolted far ahead of his Cleveland City Council colleague Rebecca Maurer in the first leg of their race for the new Ward 5.
Starr outran Maurer by 44 points in the newly drawn ward, which connects parts of downtown and Slavic Village with the Central and Kinsman neighborhoods.
Turnout was in the single digits. Only about 6% of the ward’s more than 14,000 registered voters cast ballots. Overall turnout in Cleveland was about 7%…