Sentence examples for high turnout rate from inspiring English sources

That, combined with the high turnout rate among African-Americans — close to the rates of the two times Barack Obama ran for president — gave a spotlight to the religious perspective of black evangelicals.

A longtime Democratic constituency with a consistently high turnout rate, Jews are important to his general election hopes, particularly in New York, which he expects to win; in California and New Jersey, which he must keep out of Republican hands; and, most crucially, here in Florida, where Jews make up around 5percentt of voters.

"Iranian officials are obsessed with high turnout rates and have been encouraging popular participation in this election, from the campaign stump to the Friday prayer lectern," said Behnam Ben Taleblu, Iran analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington.

An election predicted to bring out just 25% of registered voters instead saw at least 40% of the electorate participate, with the increases powered by high turnout rates of African Americans and college educated voters, who made up 44% of the electorate in a state with one of the lowest rates of college educated population in the country.

Her election generated the nation's highest turnout rate in 15 years.

In fact, he said, black men have a higher turnout rate than white men or white women.

Black women had a higher turnout rate than any other group, and young blacks turned out at a higher rate than young whites.

The political anxiety among Congressional Republicans is especially high on the drug issue, given the power of older voters in a midterm election because of their higher turnout rate.

This year's total amounts to 61.6percentt of eligible voters, the highest turnout rate since 1968, when Republican Richard M. Nixon defeated Democrat Hubert H. Humphrey, said Michael P. McDonald, a political science professor at GMU.

Minnesota, with a competitive Senate race that still has not been decided, had the highest turnout rate, even though it was slightly lower than in some years, at 77.8percentt.

SF Weekly notes that inmates in San Francisco likely had the highest turnout rate of any group in the 2011 election--approximately 90percentt.