Find out about turnout in elections: what it has been like, what causes it to change and how campaigners try to raise it.
Out today is the latest data from the British Election Survey (BES), focusing on turnout. It was up at the 2017 general election, making it the fourth general election in a row at which turnout has risen. But it wasn’t young people who fuelled the turnout rise. … Read the full post »
The turnout effect of e-voting – perhaps the key measure of interest to political reformers – appears to be marginal. … Read the full post »
Opening the Can of Worms: Most Existing Studies of Aggregate Level Turnout are Meaningless, by Jonathan Mellon (University of Manchester/Nuffield College, Oxford), Geoffrey Evans (Nuffield College, Oxford), Edward Fieldhouse (University of Manchester), Jane Green (University of Manchester) and Christopher Prosser (University of Manchester/Nuffield College, Oxford). … Read the full post »
Welcome to the latest in my occasional series highlighting interesting findings from academic research. Today – how did the efforts of 38 Degrees to raise turnout at the general election fare? … Read the full post »
If you persuade someone to go out and vote in one election, do you get a bonus benefit in that they are also then more likely to vote in future elections? … Read the full post »
The equivalent of the Electoral Commission decided to restore a giant poster of the former dictator that used to be a landmark of a suburban area of Tunis. … Read the full post »
Time for another outing for my occasional Campaign Against Cliched Democratic Pessimism with report of another positive turnout picture. … Read the full post »
There have been three general elections since the Iraq war. Turnout has gone up at each of them. It doesn’t get mentioned because it is an inconvenient fact. … Read the full post »
Well, this tops even my finest Liberal Democrat moment, courtesy of the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee: Voter engagement in the UK: follow up report. … Read the full post »
Remember, the only comment about turnout in elections you’re allowed to make in public is a pessimistic one. … Read the full post »