NewsWhore
05-23-2012, 03:40 PM
In Hoy newspaper's op-ed page today, political analyst Bernardo Vega comments that Dominican expats changed their voting patterns in the 2012 presidential election. He says that in 2008 presidential election Dominicans abroad voted 60.6% in favor of the PLD, and 35.73% for the PRD and 2.41% for the PRSC, which had fielded its own candidate. There was also a 49.56% abstention rate among expat Dominicans in 2008.
In the 2012 presidential election, the PLD vote was only 40.0%, with 45.6% for the PRD and 8% for the PRSC, which was backing the PLD candidate. Abstention increased from 49.56% to 58%, despite the election being held on a Sunday, instead of on a working day as in 2008.
Vega writes that the decisive vote in the overall expat vote count was in the US, where the PRD received 48% of the vote.
Of 328,649 Dominicans registered to vote abroad, 129,359 actually did in the three circumscriptions - No. 1 (Canada, United States with the exception of Miami), No. 2 (Miami, Panama, Venezuela, Curacao, Aruba and the Virgin Islands), and No. 3 (Europe).
www.hoy.com.do/mobile/article.aspx?id=428906 (http://www.hoy.com.do/mobile/article.aspx?id=428906)
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In the 2012 presidential election, the PLD vote was only 40.0%, with 45.6% for the PRD and 8% for the PRSC, which was backing the PLD candidate. Abstention increased from 49.56% to 58%, despite the election being held on a Sunday, instead of on a working day as in 2008.
Vega writes that the decisive vote in the overall expat vote count was in the US, where the PRD received 48% of the vote.
Of 328,649 Dominicans registered to vote abroad, 129,359 actually did in the three circumscriptions - No. 1 (Canada, United States with the exception of Miami), No. 2 (Miami, Panama, Venezuela, Curacao, Aruba and the Virgin Islands), and No. 3 (Europe).
www.hoy.com.do/mobile/article.aspx?id=428906 (http://www.hoy.com.do/mobile/article.aspx?id=428906)
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#8)