[mrtksn]

Not very different from any election in the developed world.

[Scarjit]

It depends, in Germany we enjoy a quite high turnout of ~70-80% for federal elections (https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/2274/umfrage/...) [The site is in German, but should be fairly easy to read].

While for European elections it is usually 40-50% with huge differences by country (https://results.elections.europa.eu/en/turnout/)

[mrtksn]

Then you should vote more on the EU election I guess.

[flir]

Why do you think they don't?

[sebnun]

It has been historically low in Sweden. Last time 55% voted in the EU election while 82% voted in the Swedish election.

[mrtksn]

The more local the more people care but half of the population voting is not really drastically different than 2/3 of the population voting.

It would be better if more people voted though.

[ApolloFortyNine]

This assumes that the ones who decide to vote in the EU election are a random sample of the ones that vote in the national elections, which is almost definitely not true. One of the parties is likely being over/under represented at the EU election.

[mrtksn]

It only means that underrepresented should do better in convincing people to vote.

[ApolloFortyNine]

You said:

>The more local the more people care but half of the population voting is not really drastically different than 2/3 of the population voting.

And I was simply pointing out how the result is different. I thought you were referencing that it was a random sample. Though apparently you just decided it's the same even though you knew it wasn't a random sample.