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For the last 30 years, political scientists have observed that there is a constant decline in electoral turnout, and the people who are least interested to vote are the people whom you expect are going to gain most out of voting.
Voter turnout around the world peaked in the late '80s, and it has been declining at a pace that we have never seen before, and if those numbers are bad at the national level, at the level of our cities, they are just dismal.
In France, voter turnout hit a record low.
In some American cities, voter turnout was close to five percent.
That was the lowest turnout the city had seen in 100 years.
In other cases, systematic errors arise through deliberate fraud, like the presidential referendum held by Saddam Hussein in 2002, which claimed a turnout of 100% of voters with all 100% supposedly voting in favor of another seven-year term.
In the 2014 midterm elections, turnout was 36 percent, which was a 70-year low.
Potential viewers be warned, the current IMDb viewer rating for "Tomorrow at Seven" is an anomaly of low voter turnout.
Tashan was billed as one of THE most highly anticipated for 2008, but I was quite surprised at the lower than low turnout at the cinemas.
But Morsi’s narrow margin of victory (just 3.5 percentage points) over Shafiq, and low voter turnout – 46.4% in the first round and 51.8% in the second – reflect a polarized, exhausted society that lacks confidence in the electoral process and the candidates.
Whereas in the United States, a majority of the poor do not vote, – turnout in Harlem was 23% in the last presidential election – in India the poor turn out in great numbers.
That figure contrasts markedly with elections in the United States, where the turnout in the 2004 presidential election barely exceeded 60%.
In the 1920’s, when voter turnout fell below 60%, parliament made voting compulsory.
While the percentage of invalid votes is a little higher where voting is compulsory, it comes nowhere near offsetting the difference in voter turnout.
Turnout rose to nearly 54%, with the increase especially marked among younger and better-educated voters.
If we don’t want a small minority to determine our government, we will favor a high turnout.
Countries worried about low voter turnout would do well to consider their compulsory model.
European parliamentary debates rarely make it far outside Brussels or Strasbourg, and voter turnout to fill the body’s seats has typically been low.
Turnout averages 60-65% in presidential elections, implying that around 29 million votes are likely to be cast.
A large turnout showing a clear majority for independence would be a way to say: See how strongly we feel about this issue.
Given the conditions, the 60% voter turnout was astonishing.
The low turnout (less than 50%) for the first round means that two candidates at most can make it to the second round, where the candidate with the highest number of votes will win.
Second, the historically large majority of seats that LREM is set to win, owing to low turnout and the 12.5% threshold for going on to the second round of voting, means that a new and very different French political landscape is emerging.
Turnout for the parliamentary election was 40%, which puts Poland near the bottom in voter participation among the democratic nations of the world, and about 25-30% below the European average.
For example, many have pointed out that Theresa May, the Conservative prime minister, campaigned poorly, and that pollsters’ models underestimated turnout by younger voters.
To address this, the political scientists T. Anthony Quinn and R. Michael Alvarez recommend reforming the primary process to “give voters more choices, which in turn can stimulate increased voter turnout.”
Most of the 375 million or so people eligible to vote in the European elections on June 4-7 probably have only a hazy idea, or none at all, which explains why voter turnout throughout the European Union is likely to be disastrously low.
Though somewhat dysfunctional, these institutions have helped to empower Kenyan youth, driving the high election turnout last month.
The low turnout and weakening of mainstream parties gives the European Council – national leaders of the EU’s member states – a pretext to continue cutting deals in smoke-free rooms.
The relatively small turnout at his funeral confirmed that only a minority of Serbs considers him a national hero.
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