How much was the participation in the elections in other countries?

Elections are an official decision-making whereby a part of the people choose a person or persons for an official position for a certain period of time by casting votes into election boxes to manage their public affairs. Since the 17th century, holding elections has been the usual mechanism for the realization of proxy democracy.

In governments based on democracy, governments consider privileges for the people and allow the people to raise and advance their demands through elections and choosing the people they want. Elections in some countries have reduced the number of people at the polls. However, the average participation of the Iranian people in the elections has not decreased despite the negative propaganda of the opposing media.

Elections in different countries follow different laws according to the type of government, democracy and democracy, and in some countries, in addition to presidential and parliamentary elections, local elections are held. However, during the past years, participation in elections has been decreasing in some countries.

False democracy in some advanced countries such as America, England, France and Germany has made people in these countries reluctant to participate in elections because they believe that their votes have an impact on the administration of affairs and the fulfillment of their wishes. It doesn’t have.

Low participation of the French in the elections of the Legislative Assembly

The 2022 French Legislative Assembly elections were held on June 12 and 19, 2022 to elect 577 members of the French Legislative Assembly. In this election, the seats were divided between four coalitions, and none of them won an absolute majority and it was drawn to the second round. While in the first round, 47.5% of people’s participation was recorded, in the second round, this figure decreased to 21.46%. In other words, the participation rate in the second round was lower than the first round. This means public distrust of the French government and parliament.

American congressional elections do not remember 50% participation

The American mid-term elections, which are held every two years, have not yet seen the color of popular participation of more than 50%. Between 2006 and 2018, the mid-term elections of the US Congress have varied between 40 and 49 percent participation and have not reached 50 percent.

Elections in England

In the history of British parliamentary elections, 83% participation has been recorded only once in 1950, and since then participation has completely decreased. In England, there are five types of elections: English national elections, parliamentary elections, local elections, municipal elections and police elections, none of which has recorded a high turnout so far. And this issue made English politicians despair and challenge, that’s why they are trying to approve the compulsory voting law and consider fines for those who don’t participate.

Decreasing participation in parliamentary elections in Scandinavia and Schengen area

In countries such as Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Denmark and Portugal, which have always claimed democracy, the participation process in parliamentary elections has been decreasing since the 1940s and 1950s and has not reached 50%.

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The attendance of the Austrian people in the parliamentary elections of 1949 reached its peak of 96.87%, but after that it decreased and in 2019 it decreased by 20% to 75.59% in the presidential elections in this country as well. In 1957, they participated with 96.89%, but in the recent elections, this figure decreased to 72.21%.

The parliamentary elections of 1975 in Portugal were accompanied by the participation of 91.73% of the people, but in the elections of 2019, this figure fell below 50% to 48.57%. 70% of people went to the polls.

simultaneous presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkey

Turkish parliamentary elections in 2023 were held at the same time as the country’s presidential elections. He announced that the participation rate in the 28th parliamentary elections in Turkey was 88.92% inside the country and 53.80% outside the country.

In Pakistan’s parliamentary elections held this year (2024), despite the terrorist attacks that took place in the days leading up to the elections and even on the voting day, the people of this country turned out to be over 50%, although some media claimed to have manipulated the results.