Nonetheless, opposition politicians say they hope that by election time, voters will come around.
Roughly half the new district's voters came from each of the two former districts.
Few voters came, and those who did appeared very much more interested in toilet paper than politics.
Some voters came with their children to show them, they said, what democracy looks like.
Prospective voters who cannot vote before they go to work often do not come back.
The voters' will come in just over three weeks.
If they can do that, the voters will come flocking from the right and the left.
Individual voters can come to have very different degrees of influence on the legislative process.
Uncommited voters came in third with approximately 14.7 percent of the vote.
The 'no' voters came heavily from more vulnerable groups, people who might fear being controlled.