We've had wall to wall Brexit across the whole of the mass media as well as vast swathes of social media, coupled with a massive hype up to these rushed EU elections - and we can only manage a 40% turnout in the South West region?
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After all the build up to EU election day, you would think that voters would be keen to get involved and make their views known through the ballot box.
But I now have the detailed turnout figures for the South West Region including Gibraltar and out of the 4,143,726 eligible voters, only 1,678,619 bothered to vote. That's a turnout of 40.51%. Including postal voters.
For the South West that is only an increase of three percent on the 37% we had in 2014.
And I have little reason to think that turnouts across the UK have been any different.
You can see from this graph that turnouts have been lower in the past, but surely this time people would make the effort? But no!
So, after three years of Brexit we can only increase voter turnout by a measly three to five percent in an EU election from the total UK turnout of 35.6% seen in 2014.
Even in Gibraltar, that voted so heavily to Remain by 96% or so on a turnout of 84%, could not even manage half that with only 39.8% last Thursday.
The highest turnout in the South West was the Isles of Scilly with 55.39%.
Whereas the lowest was Plymouth City with a 34.89% turnout.
Now, much will be made of the results with arguments about the total numbers of seats and votes on each side of the Leave / Remain debate.
And th..
