The first day of voting in Italy for the 2024 European elections has ended. With the polls open from 3pm to 11pm on Saturday 8 June, according to the first data from the Ministry of the Interior processed by Eligendo, approximately 14.64 percent of the voters have gone to the polls so far. entitled. The data relates to the totality of the 61,650 sections, and must be compared with those of previous European elections in which voting took place over two days, as in this round. A number that confirms the decline in affection for voting. In 2009 the turnout at 10pm was 17.8%, almost three percentage points less than the previous electoral round (20.5%) in 2004, when voting always took place over two days. Tomorrow, Sunday 9 June, the polls will reopen at 7am and close at 11pm, when counting will begin – Italy will be the last country in the Union to finish voting. Partial data on turnout also arrives from the Interior Ministry for the regional elections in Piedmont. 17.75% of those entitled to vote went to the polls, according to data from approximately half of the 4,795 sections, while for the municipal ones – voting is held in 3,698 Italian municipalities – the turnout was 20.69%, with the data relating to approximately two thirds of the 19,578 sections.
