Friday 25 July 2014

New Zealand non voters and voters research









looking at my research into new zealand votes I found some shocking and sad stats, for example the pie chart above is of the 20ll  new zealand general election, the gray area is all the people that didn't vote ! if they had it would have an entirely different make up of the seats in parliament, this graphic also goes hand in hand with popular belief of non voters that their "vote wont make a difference" which in fact non votes votes could make the bigest difference. the other main reasons kiwis didn't vote in 2008 and 2011 are 
1) I have not voted before why start now ? 
2) i'm not interested in politics 
3) i dont trust politics.

the bigest group of non voters are the youth 18- 34, which horrible news since they are ones who future is being shaped in the coming years, they need to pick someone who takes there views and livelihoods into count. all infomation was sourced from the new zealand gov severay 

and the free infomation of the electoral commission www.elections.org.nz/research-statistics