Voter Turnout Australia 2019

In the same year the united kingdom had a voter turnout of 63 2.

Voter turnout australia 2019. 46 8 698 37 00. Voter turnout figures vary greatly from city to city. More than two generations later at the 2019 election the national turnout is on track to be at one of the lowest levels since compulsory voting began in 1924.

The aec acknowledges the traditional owners of country throughout australia and recognises their continuing. This compares with a turnout of 91 01 per cent at the 2016 federal election in absolute terms over 800 000 more australians voted in 2019 compared with 2016. Another nation with a high voter turnout was germany.

Up to 1 5 million people on the roll. Voter turnout across remoteness66 rural provincial and outer metropolitan areas showed recorded decreases greater than the national. Starting with a record enrolment of 96 8 per cent of eligible australians 91 9 per cent voted in the 2019 federal election mr rogers said.

Log in register or subscribe to save articles for. Canada s last election in 2015 drew in 62 1 of voters. The final enrolment figure is the total number of people who are entitled to vote in an election.

Floods spark evacuation warnings for nsw towns 6. Nationally voter turnout decreased in both the house of representatives by 1 4 percentage points and in the senate by 5 3 percentage points between 2013 and 2019. It is standard political orthodoxy that in polarised election campaigns such as this the voter turnout increases.

The 2019 australian federal election was held on saturday 18 may 2019 to elect members of the 46th parliament of australia the election had been called following the dissolution of the 45th parliament as elected at the 2016 double dissolution federal election all 151 seats in the house of representatives lower house and 40 of the 76 seats in the senate upper house were up for election. After the spike in enrolments. The towns and cities least likely to vote.