Sentences with phrase «declining election turnouts»

However, it is worth recalling the honest intentions behind the sixth point as we ponder declining election turnouts, the diminishing base of unpaid party activists, and the distance that remains between the Westminster parliamentary system and those to whom elected representatives are ultimately accountable.

Not exact matches

In the 2004 and 2009 European elections, voter turnout was much lower, coming in at 82.4 % and 78.8 % respectively — and it is projected to decline further in the 2014 election.

As is common at by - elections, voter turnout declined significantly from the previous general election to 34 %.

But there are signs of a decline: in the 2003 polls, when Malta's EU membership was confirmed by referendum, the turnout was 95.7 % for the general election and 91 % for the referendum.

In this context, the vote shares of both the Conservatives and Labour have declined steadily, as has turnout, but Labour are the only one of the two major parties to have won a parliamentary majority in the last four elections (they managed it in three), suggesting their death twitches, as you may describe them, are a little more animated than the Tories.

Of all our democracy's dysfunctions, the method of voting might seem a small one — but modernising elections would be a sign that Westminster was serious about the cataclysmic decline in turnout.

In this post, Andrew Defty looks at the variation in turnout across the 40 PCC elections to consider the impact of embedding the elections in the electoral cycle, and how this may have resulted in a decline of independent PCCs

He declined to comment on whether Facebook would deploy any message to help to increase voter turnout at this year's US presidential election.