{"id":333825,"date":"2020-11-23T06:06:11","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T20:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=333825"},"modified":"2020-11-23T06:06:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T20:06:11","slug":"low-72-05-election-turnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/low-72-05-election-turnout\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Low 72.05% election turnout\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s general election had a 72.05% voter turnout, which is low compared to previous elections in the Commonwealth. <\/p>\n<p>Commonwealth Election Commission executive director Julita A. Villagomez said there were a total of 18,535 registered voters and only 3,970 voted on Election Day on Nov. 3, while 8,130 did the early voting and 1,255 were absentee voters.<\/p>\n<p>CEC earlier predicted a low turnout because of the COVID-19 pandemic and midterm elections have historically had low turnouts. <\/p>\n<p>Villagomez said there were nine blank ballots on election day, one blank absentee ballot, and 21 blank ballots on early voting, for a total of 31 blank ballots.<\/p>\n<p>The 2018 general elections proved to be the biggest in CNMI history, with 18,926 registered voters and a total of 14,649 who voted, translating to a high voter turnout of 77.4%.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2014 general election, out of 17,986 registered voters, a total of 13,798 voted\u2014a 76.7% turnout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s general election had a 72.05% voter turnout, which is low compared to previous&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":332841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}