(Bloomberg) — India’s Election Commission on Friday raised voter turnout figures for the latest phase of polling, even as the government body draws scrutiny from opposition figures and other groups. Most Read from Bloomberg The Election Commission said turnout in the fourth phase of India’s general election, which took place on May 13, was 69.16%, […]
May 11—A cliche in politics is that candidates win elections with turnout: It all comes down to whose supporters show up in greater numbers to cast ballots. In the runoff election between incumbent Mayor Dave Bronson and former Assembly Chair Suzanne LaFrance, that truism is being repeated again and again by the campaigns, their surrogates […]
(Bloomberg) — As India’s general election nears the halfway mark, falling voter turnout is prompting concerns about voter disengagement in the world’s largest poll. Most Read from Bloomberg Analysts and political party figures say there are good reasons for the decline and the lower participation doesn’t necessarily suggest advantage for either side. Even so, the […]
Voter turnout so far appears to be a little above average 12 days into early voting at Lake County’s 11 vote centers, according to election officials. “We always like to see growth,” Fajman said. The government center site in Crown Point tends to be the busiest through the early voting period and has the most […]
(Getty Images) The top story coming out of Pennsylvania’s 2024 primaries may well have been Nikki Haley’s performance. It was significant enough that it caught the attention of President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign, which made it clear that Haley voters in Pennsylvania would be welcomed in the Biden-Haley camp. Among the voters who cast ballots […]
The resounding defeat of the stadium sales tax question on Tuesday came at the hands of thousands of Jackson County voters, both within and outside Kansas City. In total, 24.3% of registered voters cast ballots with the Kansas City Election Board, which covers only the portion of Kansas City that falls within Jackson County. A […]
Apr. 2—You might have been looking for eggs Saturday at Cole Park, but you didn’t have to look very hard for people. Close to 400 people turned out for the Emma Lou Jones Annual Easter Egg Hunt, named in honor of the late First Lady of Burnside under former mayor Ron Jones. Jones was “an […]
GREEN BAY − Election day is underway in the midst of bad weather and a visit from Republican Donald Trump. There is a mix of races on the ballot, including the presidential preference primary, two state referendum questions, and municipal and school boards. Green Bay City Clerk Celestine Jeffreys said at an 11 a.m. news […]
The Kansas Legislature in 2023 approved a rare state-run presidential primary for the first time in decades and only the third time in the state’s history. When it passed, the move was touted as an expansion of the voting access, rather than a caucus, which is more time consuming and less democratic. But it also […]
The commission in charge of Russian elections, which many critics consider neither free nor fair, said its online voting system had malfunctioned on Friday due to the large numbers of voters trying to cast their ballots that way. In the first day of three days of voting, some 500,000 people in Moscow alone cast their […]
A constitutional referendum to protect abortion access in Florida could drive Hispanic voters to the polls in November if it ends up on the ballot, Democratic strategists said during a forum on the Hispanic vote hosted by the Miami Herald and other South Florida media outlets at Florida International University on Thursday night. “I think […]
Mar. 8—HIGH POINT — Turnout in the primary election that voters settled Tuesday was down statewide and in the Piedmont Triad region compared to the last presidential year in 2020. Statewide turnout dropped from 31% in the 2020 primary to 24% this year, according to figures from the N.C. State Board of Elections. The number […]