Sentence examples for turnout electoral from inspiring English sources

The turnout, electoral officials said, was around 68percentt.

There will be electoral irregularities, fraud, and violence, but the first-round vote went much better than expected, in terms of turnout, electoral organisation, security and acceptance by the candidates of the results.

The far bigger problem facing British democracy is the growing inequality in turnout: electoral participation is falling fastest among the young and the least affluent, which gives well-off and older voters disproportionate influence at the ballot box.

He also finds that turnout and electoral support for the candidates participating in the experiment were higher in treatment villages than in control villages.

They found that higher levels of participation translated into increased Republican voter turnout, Tea Party electoral victories, increased membership in Tea Party committees and organizations, and – ultimately – changed voting behavior among elected officials who wanted to appease Tea Party protesters.

Thomas Hansford and Brad Gomez studied more than 50 years of data and find that the "effect of variation in turnout on electoral outcomes appears quite meaningful".

The "wasted vote" effect is one reason first-past-the-post systems generate lower electoral turnout than proportional-representation systems; Pippa Norris, a political scientist at Harvard, put the worldwide tally at around 65% turnout for first-past-the-post and 75% for proportional-representation.

This includes an interest in the causes and consequences of electoral turnout, political protest, digital media and political attitudes.

Electoral turnout is greater in national than in state or provincial elections, and greater in the latter than in local elections.

But further plunges in the public's already low opinion of politicians could limit enthusiasm (and indeed electoral turnout) for Mr Cameron.

The electoral turnout was an impressive 85% and a crowd of several thousands attended the eve-of-poll meetings and the declaration of the result.