voter turnout

Examples of voter turnout in the following topics:

• Voting Behavior

  • Voter turnout depends on socioeconomic factors such as education, income, gender, age, and race.
  • Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election.
  • In low turnout nations, however, the differences between voters and non-voters can be quite marked.
  • The most important socioeconomic factor in voter turnout is education.
  • Age is another crucial factor determining voter turnout.

• African Americans as a Political Force

  • Collectively, African Americans are more involved in the American political process than other minority groups, indicated by the highest level of voter registration and participation in elections among these groups in 2004 .
  • This is a chart illustrating voter turnout by race for the 2008 Presidential Election using data from the U.S.

• Politics

• Hispanics as a Political Force

  • In 2006, 69% of Hispanic voters supported Democratic candidates in congressional races, while only 30% supported Republican candidates.
  • Due to the homogeneity among Hispanic voters, they have the ability to be an influential force in American politics.
  • The same study showed that, in the United States, Hispanics now constitute 15% of adults, 11.2% of adult citizens, and 8.9% of actual voters.
  • Immigration is an important issue for may Hispanic and Latino voters.

• Social Change

  • The 1965 Act suspended poll taxes, literacy tests, and other subjective voter tests.
  • It authorized Federal supervision of voter registration in states and individual voting districts where such tests were being used.
  • Within months of its passage, 250,000 new black voters had been registered.
  • Within four years, voter registration in the South had more than doubled.

• Why Study Collective Behavior?

  • The 1965 act suspended poll taxes, literacy tests and other subjective voter tests.
  • It authorized Federal supervision of voter registration in states and individual voting districts where such tests were being used.
  • Within months of its passage, 250,000 new black voters had been registered.
  • Within four years, voter registration in the South had more than doubled."

• Rational-Legal Authority

  • Elections must follow specific rules to ensure they are fair: all eligible voters must be allowed to vote, no poll tax can be charged because it would discriminate against those who could not pay, and so on.
  • Although individual voters may choose which candidate they favor based on a candidate's charisma or family background, the election itself must follow rational-legal requirements.

• The Role of Age

  • Obama's campaign managers understood younger voters tended to ignore politicians because politicians tended to ignore issues which most concerned them.
  • Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential campaign was notable for attracting large numbers of young voters.

• Democratic Socialism

  • In 2012, French voters elected the Socialist Party candidate, François Hollande, into office with the expectation that he will meet his campaign promises to introduce greater socialist policy.

• Gender Inequality in Politics

  • Data from the 2006 American National Election Studies Pilot Study confirmed that both male and female voters, regardless of their political persuasions, expected men to perform better as politicians than women.
  • The only deviation in this data had to do with competency in areas such as education that are typically perceived as women's domains and voters therefore trusted women politicians more.