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Voter turnout in Western countries elections (in %, starting 1900/1945; more details by clicking and seeing Wiki Commons description for the image). In political science , voter turnout is the participation rate (often defined as those who cast a ballot ) of a given election.
Voter turnout among young people has historically been quite low. For instance, in the 2019 UK election, only 47% of voters aged 18 to 24 participated, compared to 75% of those over 65, according ...
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The CSES project was founded in 1994 with two major aims. The first was to promote international collaboration between national election studies. The second was to allow researchers to study variations in political institutions, especially electoral systems, and their effects on individual attitudes and behaviors, especially turnout and vote ...
Some 70 countries, home to half the world’s population, held elections this year, and many incumbents were punished amid a rocky democratic landscape. LONDON (AP) — When voters around the ...
Globally, more voters than ever in history will head to the polls as at least 64 countries (plus the European Union)—representing a combined population of about 49% of the people in the world ...
Voter turnout in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election by race/ethnicity. Race and ethnicity has had an effect on voter turnout in recent years, with data from recent elections such as 2008 showing much lower turnout among people identifying as Hispanic or Asian ethnicity than other voters (see chart to the right).
Referendums are also often combined with elections. Voter turnout is around 40% to 50%, unless there is an election or the subject of a referendum is of a critical nature. The decisions made in referendums tend to be conservative. Citizens' initiatives are usually not passed.