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Turnout - EP Election 2004 FP 6 Civic. Active www. nsd. uib. no/civicactive

Turnout - EP Elections 2004– 2007. “New” vs “Old” member states Higher Turnout in Established Member States FP 6 Civic. Active www. nsd. uib. no/civicactive

Decreasing Turnout FP 6 Civic. Active www. nsd. uib. no/civicactive

National vs EP Elections - Turnout FP 6 Civic. Active www. nsd. uib. no/civicactive

Turnout - National vs EP Election - Sweden FP 6 Civic. Active www. nsd. uib. no/civicactive

Turnout - Germany 1979 -2004 - EP Elections FP 6 Civic. Active www. nsd. uib. no/civicactive

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Declining Gender Gap FP 6 Civic. Active www. nsd. uib. no/civicactive

Voters Abstain Voluntarily Most voters abstain from voting in EPelections for voluntary reasons as opposed to more circumstantial reasons such as health reasons, not being home, being to busy etc. Source: Banducci, Galligan and Hayes (Civic. Active WP 10) European Parliament Post. Election Survey, 2004. FP 6 Civic. Active www. nsd. uib. no/civicactive

Voluntarily Reasons Acknowledgements: Data and analysis on gender turnout as well as on voting abstentions were reproduced from the works of Banducci, Galligan and Hayes (Civic. Active WP 10) and kindly provided by Yvonne Galligan. FP 6 Civic. Active www. nsd. uib. no/civicactive

Turnout by Gender FP 6 Civic. Active www. nsd. uib. no/civicactive

Persistence of Patterns FP 6 Civic. Active www. nsd. uib. no/civicactive

Persistence of Patterns FP 6 Civic. Active www. nsd. uib. no/civicactive

Turnout by gender - “New” vs “Old” member states FP 6 Civic. Active www. nsd. uib. no/civicactive