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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

with 353 votes". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 16 June 2023. Orji, Ndubuisi (26 May 2025). "Abbas withdraws compulsory voting bill". The...

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

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...

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

"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...

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

Australia, because the combination of compulsory voting and the use of the single transferable vote system ("preferential voting") leads a number of politically...

citizens who live in the canton of Schaffhausen are required to vote in elections. Compulsory voting never existed on the national level in Switzerland. It was...

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

their voting age ranges between 16 and 21 (with the sole exception of the United Arab Emirates where the voting age is 25). A nation's voting age may...

with compulsory voting, a boycott may amount to an act of civil disobedience; alternatively, supporters of the boycott may be able to cast blank votes or...

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

Early voting, also called advance polling or pre-poll voting, is a convenience voting process by which voters in a public election can vote before a scheduled...

the basis of compulsory voting, with a few exceptions. Luxembourg citizens aged under 75 years who reside in Luxembourg are required to vote, unless they...