Sentence examples for relative turnout from inspiring English sources
Put differently, the majority of Republican gains last year were probably due to changes in relative turnout rather than people changing their minds about which party's approach they preferred.
Among the lessons Mr. Gans drew was that the states with the higher relative turnouts were among the first to vote, when the race appeared most competitive.
But what is also evident is that relative voter turnout has been declining in the past decade.
Put in historical perspective then, what was remarkable about 2008 was not the relative voter turnout from young voters, which was essentially flat, but instead their relative degree of support for Obama over McCain.
Curtis Gans, the director of the Center for the Study of the American Electorate at American University, said that states with early voting did not always have better turnout relative to states that did not.
Pfeiffer: We would get these very detailed data reports that come in every couple of hours, and the very first one showed in some states a very jacked-up Republican turnout relative to what we thought it would be, and youth and African-American and Latino turnout down from where we had thought it would be.
Despite low turnout last weekend relative to previous elections, Taiwan's Cross-Strait Policy AssociaTsai attributed Tsai's victory to her capture of this pivotal demographic.
This is best illustrated by the time and stage a band is scheduled relative to its expected turnout.
On the other end of life's continuum, Paul Westerberg of the Replacements, reuniting to great pre-fest fanfare but greeted with relative indifference and tiny turnout, underlined the point.
Paul would have been benefited by his relative strength in low-turnout caucus states.
But despite their imposing presence, the sheer number of them relative to the actual festival turnout meant that most of them didn't have much to do except hang about texting their girlfriends, playing frisbee, and trying out the fairground games.
