Not exact matches
While Catalonia's regional government mulls an independence declaration this week, there is growing opposition to the
vote, which had a 42 percent
level of
turnout, by the central government in Madrid.
People needing to be
voted in at all different
levels, leading to lower voter
turnout for non-presidential elections
Such a
turnout level would be unprecedented: it is a near - certainty that a higher proportion of the sample was not even registered to
vote.
On average,
turnout levels were almost four percent higher in the constituencies that supported the referendum proposal (64.37 %) than it was in the constituencies that
voted against this (60.48 %).
The
levels of turn - out for elections to its board of 53 elected members was not huge — 44 % of the electorate
voted in elections across the 13 inner - London boroughs — but much better than
turnout in elections for more recent devolved positions of authority, such as police commissioners.
Electoral data is based on three indices: the percentage of
votes cast for the big two (the only parties ever to form government - let's ignore 2010 for now),
turnout, and voter registration
levels.
As with previous versions, the file comprises the 2015 election results for each constituency (winning party,
vote share, number of
votes,
turnout, majority and changes in
vote share since 2010), the 2010 results (winning party,
vote share, number of
votes,
turnout and majority), and contextual information at the constituency
level:
Based on 2012
turnout levels, the Greens would need about 6.5 million
votes, or 6 million Sanders - loving Democratic defectors to add to her 2012 tally.
As a result, the popular
vote totals reflect the total number of
votes cast for that party, and do not indicate the
level of
turnout, which is shown below.
A more important fact, I suspect, will be low and differential
turnout, since
votes are not weighted by individual union affilation
levels but simply aggregated.
Under the current law, a strike can take place if it is backed by a simple majority of those union members who
vote - regardless of the
level of
turnout.
That's not to say that young voters were not still important in explaining the election result — age was still an important divide on how people
voted, young people did still heavily
vote for Labour so it is still fair to say Labour managed to enthuse young people more, it's just that the
level of
turnout among under 25s does not appear to have risen; Labour just took a greater share of support among younger voters.