Countries where non-voters would be the strongest voting bloc / party

@infobeautiful This is somewhat misleading though as at least Belgium, Luxemburg, Liechtenstein and Turkey have mandatory voting.

@infobeautiful another reason this is misleading. E.g in the Netherlands you have a dozen parties. The biggest party got 16.9%. So with even 17% non-voters (which is VERY low) you have NL on the list.
So this statistic is totally moot…

@thegcat @infobeautiful plus hungary has basically just 2 big parties but 30% non voters. The whole statistic is flawed!

@thegcat @infobeautiful To me, the colored text suggests that the situation is just the opposite of what is described in the alt text — namely that 'countries where non-voters would be the strongest party' are shown in green, while red indicates the opposite. This seemed a bit odd first, as it doesn't match the official numbers of most recent election in germany —there were 49,928,653 total votes out of 60,510,631 total voters, i.e. 82,5% voter turnout, whereas the strongest party got 11,196,374 votes — which is more than the 10,581,978 people that didn't participate. Then I realized the graphic is from February 2025 and at that time the most recent election in germany was the one in 2021 with voter turnout 76,6 and only 25,7% (of votes) for the strongest party, which results in more non-voters than voters of the strongest party. I didn't check the other countries but guess, as a result from the terrible choice of colors in that map, the alt text is just wrong — who would color a country green when the strongest 'party' is formed by non-voters?

@struberg @infobeautiful What you say would fit my suspicion

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You have to work on your titles a bit. At first glance I though the red countries were where most people didn't vote.

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Was sagt dir das? Sehr spannende Grafik! @AnnaMariaBals