Compulsory voting, also called universal civic duty voting or mandatory voting, is the requirement that registered voters participate in an election. As...

of distinctive features including compulsory enrolment; compulsory voting; majority-preferential instant-runoff voting in single-member seats to elect the...

same district), such a plurality block voting are also winner-take-all. In party block voting, voters can only vote for the list of candidates of a single...

eligible voters. Voting is compulsory for Belgians in Belgium. All Belgian citizens (who are eligible to vote) have to participate in the voting, but they are...

required, hence no votes were recorded against the bill. The 1925 federal election was the first to be conducted under compulsory voting, which saw the turnout...

voting takes a variety of forms and reflects numerous voter motivations, including political apathy. Where voting is compulsory, casting a blank vote...

of compulsory voting. She was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2011. Hill is an advocate for compulsory voting, pointing...

independents will contest the election. Australia has compulsory voting, with preferential instant-runoff voting in single-member seats. The 2025 Australian federal...

fashion. Donkey votes are most common where preference voting is combined with compulsory voting, such as in Australia, particularly where all candidates...

restrictions on voting from 1885, and by 1902 most Australian residents who were not of European descent were explicitly or effectively excluded from voting and standing...

independents will contest the election. Queensland has compulsory voting, with preferential instant runoff voting in single-member seats. At the 2024 Queensland...

Representatives, where all members are elected by First-past-the-post voting, instant-runoff voting, or the two-round system. The use of single-member districts...

Different voting systems allow each voter to cast a different number of votes - only one (single voting as in First-past-the-post voting, Single non-transferable...

"Former MPs support compulsory voting in NZ". Radio NZ. Retrieved 19 May 2018. Rudman, Brian (14 March 2017). "Compulsory voting not the answer to low...

to vote, by absentee ballot, early voting or election day voting. GOTV is generally not required for elections when there are effective compulsory voting...

Non-resident citizen voting is citizens voting in elections according to their citizenship while not residing in the country of the election. As of 2020...

than 13 million Australians were enrolled to vote at the time of the election. Australia has compulsory voting (since 1925) and uses preferential ballot...

leader Vincent Tarzia. South Australia has compulsory voting, uses full-preference instant-runoff voting for single-member electorates in the lower house...

has compulsory voting, with optional preferential, instant runoff voting in single-member seats for the lower house, and single transferable voting with...

Electronic voting is voting that uses electronic means to either aid or handle casting and counting ballots including voting time. Depending on the particular...

a number of distinctive features including compulsory voting, with full-preference instant-runoff voting in single-member seats to elect the lower house...

some votes are valid and others invalid. A voter may deliberately spoil a vote, for example as a protest vote, especially in compulsory voting jurisdictions...

factor affecting voter turnout is whether voting is compulsory, as countries that enforce compulsory voting tend to have far higher voter turnout rates...

enforce compulsory voting, he was cited to be the only member objecting to the abolition on the grounds that this would render compulsory voting, which...

The electoral system of Australia enforces compulsory voting and uses full-preference instant-runoff voting in single-member seats for the House of Representatives...

below 90% for the first time since 1922, prior to the introduction of compulsory voting in Australia. The Labor Party achieved a majority government for the...

ballot is a device used to cast votes in an election and may be found as a piece of paper or a small ball used in voting. It was originally a small ball...

becomes automatically eligible to vote the day they turn 18. No special notifications are sent and voting is not compulsory. Everyone older than 16 who is...

election. Compulsory voting for federal elections was introduced in 1924 and first used in the 1925 elections, where 91.4% of the electorate cast a vote, compared...

had compulsory voting and used majoritarian preferential voting in single-member seats for the Legislative Assembly, and single transferable voting (STV)...