Find out about turnout in elections: what it has been like, what causes it to change and how campaigners try to raise it.
Australia has a lovely tradition of putting on mini-summer fairs at polling stations, as I discussed with an Australian political expert for Never Mind The Bar Charts. … Read the full post »
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 »