64% of non-voters had considered voting in this Election. 43% of non-voters decided on Election Day that they would not vote. 41% of non-voters put just a little thought into whether or not to vote, and 29% didn’t think about it at all. The main overall reasons for not voting were that they had other commitments (14%) or work commitments (9%), could not be bothered voting (14%), couldn’t work out who to vote for (11%) and that their vote would not make a difference (8%). 33% of all non-voters agreed ‘I don’t trust politicians’ was an important factor (4 or 5 out of 5) on their not voting. Other important factors were ‘it was obvious who would win so why bother’ (31%), and I’m just not interested in politics (29%). Since 2008 there has been an increase in the proportion of non-voters saying ‘it was obvious who would win so why bother’ (from 19% to 31%).
Posted on: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 10:39:15 +0000
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