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Percentage of overall turnout for local elections (3361) Metric type
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- This metric is the aggregated weighted turnout for each main round of local council elections for the area. It is calculated based on the total number of ballots reported divided by the total electorate (people eligible to vote) for the wards holding elections and is expressed as a percentage.
Local councillors are elected for 4-year terms by the local community, at the end of this term elections are held for the relevant wards. The election cycle varies for different councils, some councils elect all of their councillors at the same time (once every four years), other councils elect half or a third of their councillors at each election. Therefore this should be kept in mind when comparing the figures for different councils.
Election results published by Nuffield Politics Research Centre and House of Commons Library.
- Modified
- 20 Feb 2023
- Data last updated
- 19 Feb 2024
- Short label
- Overall % election turnout
- Status
- Live
- Output precision
- 1
- Polarity
- a high value is good
- Measure
- Percentage of overall turnout
- Dataset
- Council election results
- Collection
- Local Elections Handbook
- Source
- The Elections Centre
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