Sentence examples for forecasting turnout from inspiring English sources

— NATE SILVER Although the polls made pretty good predictions of the election outcome tonight, forecasting turnout is harder.

National broadcaster NHK and other media forecast turnout at around 52% – seven percentage points down from the last election in 2012 and the lowest since the end of the second world war.

Hours before polls closed, the national election commission forecast that turnout would exceed 80% – the highest since Kim Dae-jung was elected in 1997.

He was called a "Chicken Little" of the voter turnout forecasting industry.

But Bruce N. Gyory, a Democratic consultant whose turnout forecasts have become required reading for party strategists, said he expected that despite all the attention to the Tea Party this fall, it might not generate big numbers at the ballot box beyond western New York, Mr. Paladino's home turf.

Electoral officials forecast a final turnout of 62.3%.

Yousef Khaddam, an activist in Sabahi's movement, forecast a big turnout for the anti-Mursi rally in Cairo.

I've found the early vote is a decent calibration tool in addition to comparable past elections, to draw upon when making national and state turnout forecasts.

Mrs. Deutsch, who was among those forecasting a 15percentnt voter turnout, said that the turnout reflected the fact that "only a few people are plugged into the public schools.

Rhodes Cook, a non-partisan political analyst, argues that a rise in turnout usually forecasts a change in party control (as happened in 1992 and 2000).

As the polls closed Sunday evening, monitors forecast that the final turnout would reach 67percentt, compared with 61percentt in the first round two weeks ago.