NewsWhore
05-19-2010, 03:40 PM
The abstention rate in the National District and the provinces of Santo Domingo and Santiago was evident in the electoral process in which around 50% of registered voters did not go to the polls.
After the Central Electoral Board (JCE) released Bulletin #13 yesterday, it is possible to project that the three largest voting populations in the country combined for an abstention rate of 53%. The National District had the largest abstention rate of the three areas, at 56%, with just 18% of the votes yet to be tallied. In the province of Santo Domingo, the abstention rate was 53% with 95% of the votes counted.
In Santiago, nearly 49% of registered voters decided not to exercise their right to vote, taking into account that some 25% of the votes still need to be counted.
In Santiago, Santo Domingo province and the National District, there are 2,709,930 registered voters who represent 44% of the total number of voters in the Dominican Republic.
It is worth reminding that in the three locations there are still votes to be counted, and therefore the percentages could vary a little.
In individual terms, the province of Santo Domingo has the largest number of voters with 1,227,757, or 20% of the total number of voters in the country.
Santiago with 686,107 represents 11%, while the National District with 796,266 has 13% of the voting public.
After the bulletin came out the three largest voter pools had registered 1,099,792 votes, which represents 30% of the votes counted so far.
The provinces with the greatest percentages of voters were Azua (70.68%), Dajabon (70.78%), Independencia (73.89%), La Romana (69.05%), Elias Pina (69.48%), San Jose de Ocoa (71.64%) and Santiago Rodriguez (70.02%). While in Bahoruco (66.78%), Barahona (67.1%), El Seibo (64.72%), Espaillat (65.79), Hato Mayor (66.81), Hermanas Mirabal (63.95%), La Altagracia (60.65%), La Vega (60.92%), Maria Trinidad Sanchez (66.36%), Montecristi (68.37%), Monte Plata (69.95%), Pedernales (66.16%), Puerto Plata (63.84%), Samana (68.32%), San Juan (66.02%) and Sanchez Ramirez (67.40%), there was less than 40% abstention.
In total, more than 23 provinces saw voter turnouts of more than 60%, considered high for a mid-term election.
Meanwhile abstention was more than 40% in the provinces of Duarte (57.76%), Monsignor Nouel (59.07%), Peravia (57.69%) and San Pedro de Macoris (53.13%).
In the provinces of the so-called Deep South, such as Bahoruco, where a large part of the registered voters live overseas or in other urban regions, the congressional votes were 43,897 of a total of 65,727 registered voters. The same can be said for Pedernales where 11,443 votes were cast out of 17,295 voters registered, and in Independencia there were 24,265 votes out of 32,838 registered, which for the latter would be a 73.89% voter turnout.
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After the Central Electoral Board (JCE) released Bulletin #13 yesterday, it is possible to project that the three largest voting populations in the country combined for an abstention rate of 53%. The National District had the largest abstention rate of the three areas, at 56%, with just 18% of the votes yet to be tallied. In the province of Santo Domingo, the abstention rate was 53% with 95% of the votes counted.
In Santiago, nearly 49% of registered voters decided not to exercise their right to vote, taking into account that some 25% of the votes still need to be counted.
In Santiago, Santo Domingo province and the National District, there are 2,709,930 registered voters who represent 44% of the total number of voters in the Dominican Republic.
It is worth reminding that in the three locations there are still votes to be counted, and therefore the percentages could vary a little.
In individual terms, the province of Santo Domingo has the largest number of voters with 1,227,757, or 20% of the total number of voters in the country.
Santiago with 686,107 represents 11%, while the National District with 796,266 has 13% of the voting public.
After the bulletin came out the three largest voter pools had registered 1,099,792 votes, which represents 30% of the votes counted so far.
The provinces with the greatest percentages of voters were Azua (70.68%), Dajabon (70.78%), Independencia (73.89%), La Romana (69.05%), Elias Pina (69.48%), San Jose de Ocoa (71.64%) and Santiago Rodriguez (70.02%). While in Bahoruco (66.78%), Barahona (67.1%), El Seibo (64.72%), Espaillat (65.79), Hato Mayor (66.81), Hermanas Mirabal (63.95%), La Altagracia (60.65%), La Vega (60.92%), Maria Trinidad Sanchez (66.36%), Montecristi (68.37%), Monte Plata (69.95%), Pedernales (66.16%), Puerto Plata (63.84%), Samana (68.32%), San Juan (66.02%) and Sanchez Ramirez (67.40%), there was less than 40% abstention.
In total, more than 23 provinces saw voter turnouts of more than 60%, considered high for a mid-term election.
Meanwhile abstention was more than 40% in the provinces of Duarte (57.76%), Monsignor Nouel (59.07%), Peravia (57.69%) and San Pedro de Macoris (53.13%).
In the provinces of the so-called Deep South, such as Bahoruco, where a large part of the registered voters live overseas or in other urban regions, the congressional votes were 43,897 of a total of 65,727 registered voters. The same can be said for Pedernales where 11,443 votes were cast out of 17,295 voters registered, and in Independencia there were 24,265 votes out of 32,838 registered, which for the latter would be a 73.89% voter turnout.
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