Talk:2000 Venezuelan general election

Latest comment: 7 years ago by Number 57 in topic Registered voters.

Registered voters. edit

How can it be that the number of registered voters for president and for parliament differs by 15 000 ? --Yomal Sidoroff-Biarmskii 11:32, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

@YOMAL SIDOROFF-BIARMSKII: It's not an uncommon occurrence. It usually happens when voters are able to register to vote for the national-level vote (e.g. the President) but not constituency-based votes (e.g. the National Assembly) and is typically caused by overseas voters being unable to vote in the parliamentary elections. I have checked another source (Dieter Nohlen's book) and that has the same discrepancy. Number 57
@Number 57: Thank you. Does it change anything that the number of total votes in the 1993 election is equal? --Yomal Sidoroff-Biarmskii 16:07, 5 February 2017 (UTC)Reply
@YOMAL SIDOROFF-BIARMSKII: Presumably there was a change in the electoral system; this (2000) was the first under the new constitution. Number 57 22:02, 5 February 2017 (UTC)Reply