negative record. In 2019 the total was 62%

The trend

But here too, abstentionism tries to hit the record: it is no longer just the first party (a trend already consolidated for years), it is also emerging as an absolute majority. A signal of disaffection with voting so strong as to represent a worrying alarm for the very meaning of democracy: if the ruling class that we send to Europe is elected by half of those entitled to vote, how legitimized can it be? The answer is obvious. The negative trend was already evident on the first day of voting which started on Saturday at 3pm. By the deadline of 11pm, only 15.7% of the people of the Marche region had gone to the polls. It is impossible to make comparisons with the European session of 2019, when voting took place on a single day (26 May). With yesterday’s data, however, the parallelism was simpler and threw in everyone’s face what must become the number one topic on the political agenda from today. Yesterday at 12, the turnout percentage stood at 27.1%. Then a step forward in the pit stop at 7pm, when 44.6% was reached in the Marche (against 40.8% at a national level). The situation is different for the administrative ones, where 50% was well exceeded. It is no coincidence that the province that achieves the best result, it was said, is that of Pesaro Urbino, where mayors and municipal councilors of the three main cities are also elected: here the percentage of voters was already 52.7% at 7pm. Less Ascolano did well, even seeing the challenge for the tricolor band in the capital: here the turnout for the European Championships stopped at 46.6%. The worst result was in the Fermo area, with just 22.2% of eligible voters going to the polls at 7pm. In the 2019 round (at the deadline of 11pm, however) 62% of the Marche residents had voted, with the Pesarese having come close to 69 %. We also sketch a comparison with the closest national round in time: that of the 2022 elections. In that case, 68.4% of voters voted in the Marche region.

The bottom of the barrel

However, not a particularly enthusiastic result. But in a context of generalized abstentionism, these 2024 European elections stood out from the group due to the disinterest aroused among voters. In Italian history, some referendums have fared worse, such as the constitutional one for the amendment to Title V of the second part of the 2001 Constitution (34% turnout) or, in more recent times, the repeal one in 2022 with the 5 questions of a judicial nature (20 ,4%). We’ve almost hit rock bottom.

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