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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 th
by 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 agoThe 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 agoAverage 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...