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> The people in charge get voted in by a minority of the people who go to vote Except for a couple examples in the US, I'm not aware of democratic countries wh

by HWR_14 4y ago

> The people in charge get voted in by a minority of the people who go to vote Except for a couple examples in the US, I'm not aware of democratic countries where this has actually occurred. And in the US, it's not a common occurrence.

andreiii 4y ago
in almost any election in every European country the voter presence is 50% or below. I think that's what the comment was about... is just a small % of people that participate in voting and even smaller percentage that votes for the winner.
- HWR_14 4y ago
  The quote I responded to was explicitly about a minority of people who opted into voting. Other parts of the comment included nonvoters, but that's a different discussion.
- suddenclarity 4y ago
  Average voter participation is 65% in european countries.
- ElFitz 4y ago
  > the voter presence is 50% or below What do you mean by "voter presence"? And 50% of what? Of registered voters? Of people eligible to vote? Because statistics would beg to differ. [^1] It might hold for european elections [^2], as almost nobody seems to care about those, leading to a low turnout, but that definitely isn’t true about national elections. [1]: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/11/these-countries-have-some-of-the-highest-voter-turnout-in-the-world/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/11/these-countries-have-... [2]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/05/27/european-elections-where-voter-turnout-was-highest-and-lowest-infographic/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/05/27/europe...
TheSpiceIsLife 4y ago
Surely you've heard of Australia? This paper discusses minority governments in Australia between 1989 and 2009, a period of two decades in which there have been at least ten examples of this political phenomenon in the Australian States and Territories. https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/researchpapers/Pages/minority-governments-in-australia-1989-2009-acco.aspx https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/researchpapers/Pages/minor... If I was paying any attention at all recently it was on the fact that we've had at least a few minority governments since 2009 also. Finland is having a minority government now too: With all of the votes counted on Sunday, the right-wing National Coalition party (NCP) won 20.8% of the vote, with the populist, nation-first Finns party scoring 20.1%. Marin’s SDP took 19.9% of the vote. Voter turnout was 71.9%. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/02/sanna-marin-finland-election-sdp-social-democratic-national-coalition https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/02/sanna-marin-fi...
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by HWR_14 4y ago

andreiii 4y ago

in almost any election in every European country the voter presence is 50% or below. I think that's what the comment was about... is just a small % of people that participate in voting and even smaller percentage that votes for the winner.

HWR_14 4y ago
The quote I responded to was explicitly about a minority of people who opted into voting. Other parts of the comment included nonvoters, but that's a different discussion.
suddenclarity 4y ago
Average voter participation is 65% in european countries.
ElFitz 4y ago
> the voter presence is 50% or below What do you mean by "voter presence"? And 50% of what? Of registered voters? Of people eligible to vote? Because statistics would beg to differ. [^1] It might hold for european elections [^2], as almost nobody seems to care about those, leading to a low turnout, but that definitely isn’t true about national elections. [1]: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/11/these-countries-have-some-of-the-highest-voter-turnout-in-the-world/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/11/these-countries-have-... [2]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/05/27/european-elections-where-voter-turnout-was-highest-and-lowest-infographic/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/05/27/europe...

TheSpiceIsLife 4y ago

Surely you've heard of Australia? This paper discusses minority governments in Australia between 1989 and 2009, a period of two decades in which there have been at least ten examples of this political phenomenon in the Australian States and Territories. https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/researchpapers/Pages/minority-governments-in-australia-1989-2009-acco.aspx https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/researchpapers/Pages/minor... If I was paying any attention at all recently it was on the fact that we've had at least a few minority governments since 2009 also. Finland is having a minority government now too: With all of the votes counted on Sunday, the right-wing National Coalition party (NCP) won 20.8% of the vote, with the populist, nation-first Finns party scoring 20.1%. Marin’s SDP took 19.9% of the vote. Voter turnout was 71.9%. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/02/sanna-marin-finland-election-sdp-social-democratic-national-coalition https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/02/sanna-marin-fi...

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