This data is produced by the Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs. The ACE Electoral Knowledge Network is the world’s largest repository of electoral knowledge. How did you find out about this? Motivated by this evidence, the authors also investigate the heterogeneous impacts by type of election, time horizon, and poverty. Figure 3 below depicts observed voter turnout characterized by a systematically larger turnout during general elections and in high-fine districts. Elections to the European Parliament are carried out within each country to select members of the European parliament (MEPs) from each Member State. Stockholm, Sweden The Voter Turnout database contains information about elections to the parliament of the European Union carried out in the EU Member States since 1979. Elections and COVID-19: How election campaigns took … Do you have election statistics disaggregated by age, gender or race? What is Voting Age Population (VAP) and how is the estimate calculated? It is not intended to be an exact measure of the number of citizens entitled to vote as it does not take into account legal or systemic barriers to the exercise of the franchise or account for non-eligible members of the population, such as resident non-citizens (the voting eligible population – VEP – would capture these discrepancies but it is very hard to achieve the data required to measure VEP). More information on local elections can be found at regional resources such as Political Database of the Americas: http://pdba.georgetown.edu/Elecdata/Sur/sur.html. Read more about voting by mail, internet voting and other types of external voting in, The fact that some countries display a larger number of registered voters than voting age population (VAP) might seem odd. For more information about the types of elections, see parliamentary elections, presidential elections or EU parliamentary elections. The EP elections are not only a hotly debated problem in European media but also quite a challenging issue for their general low voter turnout. Brazil has four types of majority elections: the president, governors, and mayors are elected by absolute majorities; senators, by simple majorities. Although it is a relatively small number of countries who have endeavored to systematize compulsory voting, each one takes a different approach in doing so. Examples of such votes include ballots where the voter has marked more choices than he/she is allowed to according to the electoral system. Turnout in the 2016 general election hit an all-time low of 47.7 per cent, except for the 1983 polls, which were boycotted by the People’s National Party. The state capital with the lowest turnout was Porto Alegre — in Brazil’s southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul — where one-third of voters did not show up. How is this possible? The strategy worked: turnout in departments that voted against the deal was 10 points higher than it was in departments that voted for it. In preparation for the exceptional turnout, Brazil's Superior Electoral Court is tripling up on polling station workers and monitors. The Voter Turnout data presented in this website is based on data gathered from desk research by International IDEA staff, surveys to Electoral Management Bodies and the International IDEA publications Voter Turnout in Western Europe since 1945 (2004) and Voter Turnout since 1945 (2002). Article. (Photo: Reuters) Published 30 September 2014 . The organisation of the elections differs somewhat from country to country, but all elections must be carried out using a proportional electoral system. The criteria for including an election in the database are the following: That the election is for national political office in independent nation states, with the exception of those nations which held elections on the eve of their independence from colonial rule (such as Nigeria in 1959), those small island nations whose sovereignty is limited by "free association" with a larger power (such as Aruba) or elections to the EU parliament.