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Bengal's First Phase: Unprecedented Turnout Amidst Lingering Tensions

West Bengal saw its highest ever voter turnout at 92% yesterday. Find out why this happened and what it means for the election.

#WestBengalElections, #ElectionTurnout, #IndiaVotes, #VoterParticipation, #BengalPolls

https://newsletter.tf/west-bengal-election-highest-turnout-92-percent/

Yesterday, West Bengal's first election phase had a voter turnout of 92.72%, which is the highest since India's independence. This is much higher than the 85% turnout in Tamil Nadu.

#WestBengalElections, #ElectionTurnout, #IndiaVotes, #VoterParticipation, #BengalPolls
https://newsletter.tf/west-bengal-election-highest-turnout-92-percent/

"untapped and unorganized": In 2020, in North Carolina, "there were over 1 million poor and low-wage voters that did not vote." In Michigan, in 2016, "over a million poor and low-wage voters didn’t vote". In Pennsylvania, "over 1.3 million poor and low-wage voters didn’t work."

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/10/31/2024_election

#election2024 #voterparticipation #electionturnout

I have read, watched and listened to days of breathless #Political #HorseRace coverage of the #GOP #IowaCaucus and not once has any #media outlet mentioned that the results are a pretty poor sampling of a small fractional #minority of the state's voters who even bother to #engage in #VoterParticipation ... In a state of over 3 million people, barely 108,000 voters participated...That is way less than 4% of the state's current population. 43

Nearly the same amount of people that voted attended a Women's Volleyball game in next door Nebraska last year as bothered to vote in this #GOPprimary...

But do go on and keep basing electoral predictions and extrapolate millions of megabytes of media coverage on Iowa ?

Total voters tallied are basically the population of the state's third largest town Davenport.

I cannot even find out a tally of how many were female. The grand total is not even 15% of the state's registered #Republican voters.

Take this gushing #MassMedia re-coronation of #DJT and his #Flex with a grain of #salt and realize we have a lot more diverse electorate nationally that may or may not be voting on far different issues and considering other information and candidates than a rural state that is one of Amurica's least diverse, with 90% caucasian citizenery in general, and even higher representation than that in the registered GOP voter base.

https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/iowa-caucus-voters-candidates-results-62448104