Requirements for democratic election
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Periodic
Open
Franchise
in Canada
Information
Freedom
Majoritarian Electoral System
First-Past-the
Post
Getting
Yourself Elected in Canada
Party Identification and partisanship
Regional variations
Religion
Ethnicity
Class
Stability, Consistency and intensity
Durable partisans
Flexible partisans
Stable dealignment
Socialization
Long term
cleavages
family
Short term
Party leaders
Issues
Salient
Linked to parties
Opinion is skewed
1988 Free trade
The media
International Historical Comparison
of Voter Turnout (from Dr. Pat
Ryan, CFR-Political Science, King's University-College, UWO)
Percentage of
Voting-Age Population that Voted in Federal Parliamentary Elections
*U.S. data is only for Presidential Election Years.
*Turnout in French Presidential Elections since 1965 has been between 67 and 75
percent.
| Canada | United States | United Kingdom | France | Denmark | |||||
| Year | % Voting-Age Population Turning-Out | Year | % Voting-Age Population Turning-Out | Year | % Voting-Age Population Turning-Out | Year | % Voting-Age Population Turning-Out | Year | % Voting-Age Population Turning-Out |
| 1945 | 70.20% | 1948 | 48.10% | 1945 | 70.10% | 1945 | 73.90% | 1945 | 80.70% |
| 1949 | 72.00% | 1952 | 59.70% | 1950 | 81.60% | 1946 | 73.70% | 1947 | 80.00% |
| 1953 | 65.40% | 1956 | 54.90% | 1951 | 81.40% | 1951 | 68.50% | 1950 | 76.60% |
| 1957 | 67.90% | 1960 | 63.10% | 1955 | 75.70% | 1956 | 74.30% | 1953 | 75.50% |
| 1958 | 75.40% | 1964 | 61.90% | 1959 | 77.50% | 1958 | 71.10% | 1953 | 78.90% |
| 1962 | 73.30% | 1968 | 60.80% | 1964 | 75.10% | 1962 | 61.00% | 1957 | 82.10% |
| 1963 | 75.10% | 1972 | 55.20% | 1966 | 73.80% | 1967 | 71.10% | 1960 | 85.90% |
| 1965 | 70.70% | 1976 | 53.50% | 1970 | 71.20% | 1968 | 69.40% | 1964 | 84.80% |
| 1968 | 68.30% | 1980 | 52.60% | 1974 | 77.90% | 1973 | 70.60% | 1966 | 88.50% |
| 1972 | 71.30% | 1984 | 53.10% | 1974 | 72.50% | 1978 | 63.40% | 1968 | 88.00% |
| 1974 | 64.20% | 1988 | 50.10% | 1979 | 75.10% | 1981 | 63.90% | 1971 | 87.30% |
| 1979 | 68.40% | 1992 | 55.10% | 1983 | 71.70% | 1986 | 69.90% | 1973 | 87.40% |
| 1980 | 64.50% | 1996 | 49.10% | 1987 | 75.20% | 1988 | 58.10% | 1975 | 86.60% |
| 1984 | 67.90% | 2000 | 46.60% | 1992 | 75.40% | 1993 | 61.30% | 1977 | 87.70% |
| 1988 | 68.30% | 1997 | 69.40% | 1997 | 59.90% | 1979 | 83.30% | ||
| 1993 | 63.90% | 2001 | 57.60% | 1981 | 86.30% | ||||
| 1997 | 57.10% | 1984 | 86.00% | ||||||
| 2000 | 54.60% | 1987 | 85.90% | ||||||
| 1988 | 82.70% | ||||||||
| 1990 | 80.40% | ||||||||
| 1994 | 81.70% | ||||||||
| 1998 | 83.10% | ||||||||