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In the actual election, Le Pen lost by an overwhelming margin in the runoff, 82.2% to 17.8%, a sign that the true top two candidates had not been found. In the approval voting survey primary, Chirac took first place with 36.7%, compared to Jospin at 32.9%. Le Pen, in that study, received 25.1% and so would not have made the cut to the second round.
In political science, economic voting is a theoretical perspective which argues that voter behavior is heavily influenced by the economic conditions in their country at the time of the election. According to the classical form of this perspective, voters tend to vote more in favor of the incumbent candidate and party when the economy is doing ...
Prospective voters had to prove the ability to read and write the English language to white voter registrars, who in practice applied subjective requirements. Blacks were often denied the right to vote on this basis. Even well-educated blacks were often told they had "failed" such a test, if in fact, it had been administered.
Ranked-choice voting or RCV is a system that only some states and counties use, but there's a growing push to implement it in wider U.S. elections.
Voting behavior is significantly influenced by retrospective assessments of government performance, which should be differentiated from the influence of policy issues. [43] Different opinions on what the government ought to do are involved in policy concerns, which are prospective or based on what will happen.
(The Center Square) – After more than 82% of Evanston voters approved a 2022 referendum adopting ranked choice voting, Reform for Illinois will appeal a recent court decision they say limits the ...
Oakland, Calif., voters successfully voted to recall Sheng Thao as mayor during November’s elections with 60 percent voting in favor, the first time the city has ever recalled a mayor.
In states that permit early voting, and have voter registration, the prospective voter must be registered before casting a vote. Some historical registration requirements, including poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses, were part of the systematic disenfranchisement of African Americans in the Jim Crow South.