Voter turnout was always going to be low, but few expected it to drop as far as it did. There were signs: The long-term downward trend, a 47% drop in the registration of 18-to-19-year-olds, polls showing voter uncertainty. Days before the polls opened, #IWantToVoteBut trended, with social media users explaining why they wouldn’t make their mark.
Most pre-election predictions suggested turnout would continue to fall and drop by around three percentage points, but few predicted how drastic the decline would be.What is materially true is that people are tired and fed-up with the political system. That is the basis of it. Everything else is secondary, the weather and so on,” said IFP spokesperson Mkhuleko Hlengwa as the results continued to come in at the IEC’s national results centre last week.
Booysen said citizens were realising elections were “no magic formula” to achieve the change they wanted to see and research had shown that people also saw the protest as a way to supplement elections to have their voices heard. The failure of dominant parties such as the ANC to meet expectations, however, probably contributed to the problem.I think people have come to the point where they’re saying it’s useless for me to go and give my mandate to any of these political parties because not one of them delivers,” said African Independent Congress treasurer Margaret Arnolds, adding that service delivery challenges were keeping voters away.
Political parties want to reverse the downturn, but after they campaigned along with the IEC to promote registration drives and get voters to the polls, it’s unclear how they can arrest the decline.The only way that young people can play an active role in this country, construct a country of their own wishes and dreams, is if they participate in elections,” said Mabe.
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