Turnout in Western Europe: Down and Down We Go

Turnout in Western Europe, 1945-2012
Turnout in the EU-15 countries, 1945-2012 (click for a larger view)

While writing a chapter for a textbook, I felt the need to fill half a page with a little illustrative graph. So I headed over to IDEA’s very useful voter turnout database, downloaded the stats for the EU-15 group of countries and ran them through Stata. No surprises here, but still just a little bit chilling?

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