Turnout was at a 25-year high, boosted by young people and BME voters. I have some reservations about the information used to produce the graph on Essential to Live in a Democracy. He believed the school holidays that ended last week added to the increase of early voters. Perhaps this is the way to introduce a Peoples’ Dividend? Election day weather: what's the forecast and who will it benefit? ( Log Out /  People who have not yet enrolled are able to do so at the same time as they vote. Is this a problem? Or should we not care about people who don’t care about voting, and just work on having better informed people who have an interest in voting? Plato’s Theory of Forms similar Torres Islanders’ beliefs, A Christian reconsiders the Resurrection of Christ, http://www.elections.org.nz/events/past-events/2014-general-election, Little change in latest 1 News/Colmar Brunton poll, Claim that Peters was briefed on NZ First Foundation operations, Long campaign but still a fairly predictable outcome, the absence of an independent body that holds the government of the day to account on long term issues, not enough empowerment of communities and direct participation for voters, the lack of a well articulated and widely valued Constitution that makes it clear what all New Zealanders’ rights are. It would be interesting to see the age pattern for a more/less government question. For this cohort – weighed down by student debt and the prohibitive cost of getting on the first rung of the property ladder – only 62% of the registered (45% of the number of under 30’s) bothered to vote. Turnout for each electorate is shown in Attachment B. In the 2014 election, 85% of eligible Baby Boomers or older voted (81% of that total cohort). Voters crossed party lines, challenging traditional class-party loyalties. Might be the start of removing a bunch of issues from Political Football status? "The really good thing is the number of votes that we've had so far, the 700,000, that's more than 50 percent up on 2017 both across the general and the Māori electorates. A Māori Television/Curia Market Research poll shows the race for the Tāmaki Makaurau electorate is close, with less than a week until election day. The counter culture of the 60’s comes home to rest not in the generation that spawned it but on the next generations sucked in by the “don’t trust the man” message. ( Log Out /  There is even a significant difference in opinion on the value of keeping democracy between young and old. This includes the confidence they have in political institutions, the importance they attach to them, and whether they feel their participation can make a difference. The 2017 New Zealand general election took place on Saturday 23 September 2017 to determine the membership of the 52nd New Zealand Parliament. Source: http://www.elections.org.nz/events/past-events/2014-general-election. Turnout of voters who identified as Māori descent also increased across the Māori and general rolls, from 67.6 per cent in 2014 to 71.1 per cent in 2017 (3.5 per cent). Make it conditional upon casting a vote in general & local body elections? The generation divide – wherein younger ones feel our so-called “democratic” government is not serving their interests – is stark. All rights reserved. Turnout among BME voters also increased six points. ... A New Zealand politics expert expects voter turnout to be higher than normal for this election due to the two referendums up for the vote. The number of voters as a percentage of enrolled voters was 79.8%. Detailed results for each electorate are available from www.electionresults.govt.nz. The previous parliament was elected on 20 September 2014 and was officially dissolved on 22 August 2017.

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