14/7/14
Understand
Some useful articles and statistics that I found. I didn't know a lot about politics before-hand so this was very interesting.
Turnout in the 2011 election was 74.21 per cent, the lowest for more than a century.
21% cited not getting round to it, forgetting or not being interested, with a further 7% not feeling it wouldn't make a difference.
"It's interesting to see that this group [the 7%] has nearly doubled since the 2008 General Election," general social survey manager Philip Walker said.
The survey found 42 per cent of 18-24-year-olds said they did not vote in 2011.
This information was sourced from a Stuff.co.nz article and provided some extremely interesting stats [Full article]
Even though these are American stats they still provide an interesting insight into registered non-voters [Full article]