1. FP6 CivicActive www.nsd.uib.no/civicactive CivicActive

2. FP6 CivicActive www.nsd.uib.no/civicactive Turnout - EP Election 2004

3. FP6 CivicActive www.nsd.uib.no/civicactive Turnout - EP Elections 2004–2007. “New” vs “Old” member states Higher Turnout in Established Member States

4. FP6 CivicActive www.nsd.uib.no/civicactive Decreasing Turnout

5. FP6 CivicActive www.nsd.uib.no/civicactive National vs EP Elections - Turnout

6. FP6 CivicActive www.nsd.uib.no/civicactive Turnout - National vs EP Election - Sweden

7. FP6 CivicActive www.nsd.uib.no/civicactive Turnout - Germany 1979-2004 - EP Elections

8. FP6 CivicActive www.nsd.uib.no/civicactive CivicActive

9. FP6 CivicActive www.nsd.uib.no/civicactive Declining Gender Gap

10. FP6 CivicActive www.nsd.uib.no/civicactive Voters Abstain Voluntarily Most voters abstain from voting in EP- elections for voluntary reasons as opposed to more circumstantial reasons such as health reasons, not being home, being to busy etc. Source: Banducci, Galligan and Hayes (CivicActive WP10) European Parliament Post- Election Survey, 2004.

11. FP6 CivicActive www.nsd.uib.no/civicactive Voluntarily Reasons Acknowledgements: Data and analysis on gender turnout as well as on voting abstentions were reproduced from the works of Banducci, Galligan and Hayes (CivicActive WP10) and kindly provided by Yvonne Galligan.

12. FP6 CivicActive www.nsd.uib.no/civicactive Turnout by Gender

13. FP6 CivicActive www.nsd.uib.no/civicactive Persistence of Patterns

14. FP6 CivicActive www.nsd.uib.no/civicactive Persistence of Patterns

15. FP6 CivicActive www.nsd.uib.no/civicactive Turnout by gender - “New” vs “Old” member states