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Nick Stevens Graphics's avatar

Thanks for such a detailed reply.

It does sound like:

* People actually get out and vote

* They know about the candidates

In my personal view several major western democracies have now reached the point where many would vote for an incompetent from the party they feel loyalty to, over someone competent from another party. I'm not a fan of rigid party loyalty as you may have gathered!

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Nick Stevens Graphics's avatar

This sounds a LOT healthier than the UK. Do you happen to know typical turnout?

In the UK it's typically really low:

https://lginform.local.gov.uk/reports/lgastandard?mod-metric=3361&mod-area=E92000001&mod-group=AllLaInRegion_WestMidlands&mod-type=namedComparisonGrou

(25.9% shown on that link!)

And most who vote tend to do so on the basis of the national parties.

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