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Elections;Elections;Immigration and immigrants

valgdeltakelse, Electoral turnout, votersGeneral elections, Municipal council and county council elections, Elections, Elections, Immigration and immigrants

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Electoral turnout

Updated

6 November 2019

Next update

Not yet determined

64.7 %

voted in the last municipal elections

Electoral turnout, by sex, age and educationPublished 17 January 2020
	General election		Muncipal council and country council elections
	2013	2017	2015	2019¹
¹Estimated figures 31.10.2019
Both sexes	78.2	78.2	60.0	64.8
Males	76.8	76.7	57.2	62.3
Females	79.9	79.7	62.0	67.2

Age
18-19 years	70.4	72.7	48.3	58.3
20-24 years	63.0	64.3	36.4	47.0
25-44 years	75.6	74.3	51.5	56.4
45-66 years	82.8	83.6	67.7	71.9
67-79 years	87.6	85.9	75.9	78.7
80 years or older	70.7	69.1	56.8	61.8

Level of education
Basic school level	65,1	64.5	44.9	50.5
Upper secondary education	78,5	79.5	61.2	66.5
Higher education	90,4	89.6	75.0	78.9

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About the statistics

The statistics show voter turnout for general elections and municipal council and county council elections by gender, age level of education eg. for country,county and some municipalities. Time series from 1969.

Definitions

Definitions of the main concepts and variables: The estimates for electoral turnout are based on whether the persons entitled to vote was at the polling station and cast a ballot. The voter will then be ticked off in the electoral roll. We do not know if the ballot will be rejected eg. The estimates for electoral turnout and number of votes for the sum of parties will not be 100% in accordance. however, the discrepancy is very small.

Standard classifications: Classification of municipality Classification of urban district

Administrative information

Name and topic: Name: Electoral turnout
Topic: Elections

Responsible division: Division for Population Statistics

Regional level: municipality

Frequency and timeliness: Every 2 year.

International reporting: Not relevant

Microdata: The statistics files are stored long term in SSB.

Background

Background and purpose: Not relevant

Users and applications: The political parties and journalists are frequent users of the statistics. The statistics are also used by ministries in the calculation of financial support to the parties, municipalities and county municipalities. Students and election researchers are also frequent users.