At polling stations in Latvia, voter turnout reached virtually 37.8%

That is 42,975 voters greater than within the 2019 elections, when voter turnout in Latvian polling stations was 33.4%

In complete, 1.541 million Latvian residents may participate within the European Parliament elections this 12 months, together with 1.362 million voters in Latvia and 178,761 voters overseas. On the identical time, in 2019 the whole variety of eligible voters was 1.415 million, together with 1.411 million voters in Latvia, in addition to 3,235 voters overseas.

The Chairman of the Seimas Fee on European Affairs, Edmunds Cepuritis, defined on social networks that greater than 170,000 Latvian residents overseas who’ve the best to vote have considerably diminished the speed of electoral exercise each within the Riga electoral district, which incorporates international polling stations, and in Latvia as an entire.

Within the 2019 European Parliament elections, you needed to register upfront to vote at a polling station overseas.

Tsepuritis emphasised that though the variety of voters at international polling stations elevated, for the reason that votes of 179,761 residents with the best to vote have been accepted there, within the CEC knowledge this led to a lower within the exercise indicator for this group by 87.54 share factors.

Based on the CEC, exercise in Riga polling stations, not together with international ones, in these European Parliament elections was 36.96%, whereas in 2019 this determine was 39.15%.

On the identical time, within the Riga electoral district, together with polling stations overseas, the place voter turnout was negligibly low, the general voter turnout price this 12 months was 26.7%.

On the identical time, in Vidzeme, voter turnout for the 2024 elections was 44.44%, which is greater than in 2019, when 36.07% of eligible voters in Vidzeme voted. In Latgale, voter turnout additionally elevated to 24.9% in comparison with 2019, when turnout was 23.57%.

In Zemgale, 38.04% of the inhabitants eligible to vote voted this 12 months, whereas in 2019 this determine was 29.55%. In Kurzeme, 38% of residents eligible to vote voted, and in 2019 this determine was 30.13%.

As reported, the data up to date by the CEC on Sunday followingnoon signifies that 521,219 voters, or 33.82% of the whole variety of eligible residents, voted within the 2024 European Parliament elections.