New publication analyses the development in voting turnouts
For several years, declining participation in elections has been one of the prominent themes in the Finnish political debate. The Parliamentary Elections in 2007 were no exception: voting in Finland as a whole fell by 1.8 percentage points. In Helsinki, the decline was 2.7 percentage points. A new publication by the City of Helsinki Urban Facts analyses the development in voting turnouts by age and gender in Helsinki and some of its districts and points at local trends in loyalty to political parties. Findings at district level are a novelty. The elections in 2007 implied both continuity and change - continuity in the sense that voting declined clearly in some districts, particularly so among young adults and in those districts where voting has been lame earlier, too, i.e. certain block-of-flat suburbs. City of Helsinki Urban Facts.
