Newtown Republicans have issued their latest position paper focusing on the topic of balance this election season.

“Our opponents are suggesting that voting for them will return balance to the system, a theme we’ve heard in the past,” the paper states, restating the question, “Is there an imbalance?”

According to the paper, Newtown currently has 17,386 registered voters. Of the registered voters, Republicans represent 36 percent, Democrats 26 percent, and all other parties 43 percent.

The other parties include Independent, Green, Working, Libertarian, and all others, with the majority of those being unaffiliated. Neither Republicans nor Democrats are the majority of registered voters.

Of the 74 elected officials in Newtown, the GOP position paper states that 58 percent are Republicans, 35 percent are Democrats and seven percent make up the balance. In addition, 150 appointed officials serve in some capacity on behalf of Newtown residents.

The paper states that Republicans represent 46 percent, Democrats 37 percent, and the balance is 16 percent — breaking down to 59 Republicans and 55 Democrats, a difference of four.

Zeroing in further on how those officials voted on the town’s Legislative Council, the GOP paper states that over the last two years there have been 132 votes (not including approval of meeting minutes or adjournments of meetings). Of those 132, all but six were unanimous.

Among those six votes, none split on party lines — and in four of the six cases, Republicans cast the dissenting votes. During the same time period, the Board of Education has had 329 votes and 287 of them have been unanimous. Only one vote was along party lines, the paper states, and voting records on the Board of Selectman and the Board of Finance reveal similar results.

“The voting on all of the major boards shows no sign of an imbalance or any substantial opposition on the issues that have come before these boards,” the analysis states. “The process provides for ample opportunity for any differing opinion [and] the boards largely move forward in unison.”

The GOP keyed into a specific issue on which local Democrats have been generating statements and letters — the imbalance on the Charter Revision Commission. But the GOP paper states that the only candidates not chosen to serve on the Charter Revision Commission who had submitted their names for consideration were Republicans.

The paper also notes that the Legislative Council Charter Revision candidate selection committee, which was headed by Democrat Paul Lundquist, reached out specifically to the Democratic Town Committee to solicit possible candidates because only one had come forward.

“Despite the fact that these concerns bubbled up well before the process was completed, Republicans took steps above and beyond what was required to be inclusive,” the paper states.

“Republicans have also been hearing that decisions are being made by a handful of people…but that is not the reality,” the position paper concludes. “Newtown voters have come together to support the first budget proposal in the last two years. Republicans think that’s because elected officials have been able to strike the right balance. Investments in infrastructure, creating a more friendly business environment, improvements in our roads, sufficient funding of our school budgets, and clear fiscal policies that reduce the cost of borrowing are all examples of the type of balance voters expect.”