The cumulative turnout data of the City of St. Gallen for four years orfifteen consecutive referendum votes now shows that 81.3% of the permanent electorate has participated at least once. The most recent national referendum vote , 9 February 2014, on the anti-immigration initiative has mobilized an additional 1 percent of the citizens who thus far have completely abstained to exercise their political rights in all previous 14 votes.
Source of the data: Fachstelle für Statistik Kanton St. Gallen, Statistikdaten Stimmbeteiligte Stadt St. Gallen.
Uwe Serdült 
[…] the electorate takes part in a popular vote sometime during a four-year period, as new research by Uwe Serdült (Center for Democracy) and Pascal Sciarini (University of Geneva) suggests. Thus, the average […]