Not exact matches
Many of the 306 won't vote on 7th May —
turnout at the last election was just over 65 per
cent and the previous two were lower again.
For those rightly worried about the constant drop in
turnout at general elections, comfort can be gained from the fact that this is not necessarily a new phenomenon as the
turnout in Lambeth in 1918 was a mere 29.7 per
cent.
The overall
turnout this year was 34.5 %, down considerably from the previous year's general election
turnout at 43.9 per
cent turnout in Sheffield.
Anyone curious about why Stephen Harper's Conservatives seem so eager to please older voters need only consider the following data from Statistics Canada: In 2011, the voter
turnout rate was about 50 per
cent among people aged 18 to 24, a few percentage points higher among 25 - to 34 - year - olds, but leapt to 70 per
cent for 45 - to 54 - year - olds, and crested
at a remarkable 82 per
cent among potential voters between 65 and 74.