"vote abstention" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to the act of deliberately choosing not to vote in a particular election or on a specific issue. Example: The recent election had a high rate of vote abstention, with many citizens feeling disillusioned with the candidates and their policies.
Indeed, although support for democracy remained solid, the voting abstention rate increased throughout the 1980s, especially in local and regional elections.
"These trends in third-party voting and voter abstention push back against the narrative of unbridled enthusiasm for Trump in the Rust Belt," Clark says.
Minister after minister – people I hadn't had time to lobby, whose views I wouldn't have guessed – spoke up and favoured a yes vote or abstention.
One negative vote or abstention from a rogue member of this majority — a settler upset about delays to settlement construction, an Orthodox leader upset by a cut to support for Yeshiva students — and the government might well fall.
One negative vote or abstention from a rogue member of this majority a settler upset about delays to settlement construction, an Orthodox leader upset by a cut to support for Yeshiva students—and the government might well fall.
15 Examining the intention to turn out in an EP election gives us also the advantage of studying an election with lower overall turnout; this could reduce the social desirability bias as people might be less reluctant to declare that they will not vote when abstention is a more common phenomenon.
But on Tuesday, election officials declared Mr. Barraza the loser by 9,000 votes -- a landslide defeat in a place where election margins are typically smaller than 3,000 votes and abstention rates soar above 40percentt.
But he points out indignantly: "Voting is not the same as attendance". Representing neither the government nor opposition, "I have no means of voting an abstention.
Some of the delegations that plan to change their votes from abstention to support for the Algerian resolution or from op position to abstention are wait ing until tomorrow to announce their intention.
Earlier this month, councillors voted to retain the title, with unionists voting against, and nationalists, with one abstention, voting in favour.
