Voter Turnout

This section provides a brief overview of worldwide voter turnout statistics since 1945 for both parliamentary and presidential elections. It is based on the International IDEA database of elections, which covers 170 independent states and includes data for 1,256 parliamentary elections and 412 presidential elections. It examines trends over time since 1945, such as differences in turnout between geographical regions and between different types of electoral sys-tems. Finally, the survey provides some comparison between voter turnout and selected political, institutional and socio-eco-nomic factors that are often cited as deter-minants of differing voter turnout rates. All figures refer to parliamentary elections unless otherwise indicated