East-Timor, elections

[Georg Ebner]

Were held today.
No results at Wikipedia so far.

[Daft H'a'porth A'peth A'pith]

If nobody gets over 50% there will be a run off in April, on the 19th.

With a third counted Jose Ramos-Horta (independence leader) is on 44.5% with incumbent Francisco Guterres second on 24.1%

[Daft H'a'porth A'peth A'pith]

Mar 20, 2022 9:15:13 GMT Daft H'a'porth A'peth A'pith said:

If nobody gets over 50% there will be a run off in April, on the 19th.

With a third counted Jose Ramos-Horta (independence leader) is on 44.5% with incumbent Francisco Guterres second on 24.1%

Run off confirmed. 

Jose Ramos-Horta got 46.58%, Francisco Guterres got 22.16% (down from 57% in 2017)

Nobody else broke 10% barrier. 

Turnout down massively, from 71% to 44%.

[Georg Ebner]

Mar 23, 2022 6:03:40 GMT Daft H'a'porth A'peth A'pith said:

Mar 20, 2022 9:15:13 GMT Daft H'a'porth A'peth A'pith said:

If nobody gets over 50% there will be a run off in April, on the 19th.

With a third counted Jose Ramos-Horta (independence leader) is on 44.5% with incumbent Francisco Guterres second on 24.1%

Turnout down massively, from 71% to 44%.

Yes, that has also been detected in Swiss/austrian/... elections. In Europe, at least, caused by Ukraine.

[The Bishop]

Why would that cause election turnouts to fall?

[minionofmidas]

Mar 23, 2022 13:50:26 GMT The Bishop said:

Why would that cause election turnouts to fall?

let alone in East Timor?

[minionofmidas]

And it isn't the case. English wiki is quoting numbers from an article in a local language, but where all the election-specific vocabulary are portuguese loanwords and which is thus fairly self-explicatory - and missing a quarter of precincts. Even that doesn't work out to 44% turnout; maybe that was an earlier set of numbers that is now gone.
German wikipedia, for some reason, has the final numbers already. 76% turnout (with a much increased electoral roll from last time, too.)

de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A4sidentschaftswahlen_in_Osttimor_2022

[Georg Ebner]

Mar 23, 2022 13:50:26 GMT The Bishop said:

Why would that cause election turnouts to fall?

So probably not in EastTimor, but in Europe the UkraineWar is in the news permanently and thus trumps the campaignEfforts and regional/local issues.

[The Bishop]

I can see that, but you might have thought it could also lead to increased political awareness more generally.

[minionofmidas]

Mar 24, 2022 12:06:06 GMT The Bishop said:

I can see that, but you might have also thought it could also lead to increased political awareness more generally.

It could, just potentially, lead to some supporters of pro-Putin parties demoralized and just staying home. (RN, Lega, FPÖ, AfD, but also Linke, I'm looking at you.)

[Daft H'a'porth A'peth A'pith]

Run off - 19th April

Jose Ramos-Horta         397,145        62.09%

Francisco Guterres        242,440        37.91%

[aargauer]

Mar 24, 2022 12:36:06 GMT minionofmidas said:

Mar 24, 2022 12:06:06 GMT The Bishop said:

I can see that, but you might have also thought it could also lead to increased political awareness more generally.

It could, just potentially, lead to some supporters of pro-Putin parties demoralized and just staying home. (RN, Lega, FPÖ, AfD, but also Linke, I'm looking at you.)

These days if the AfD don't put you off, Putin probably won't. They aren't putting up much pretence about who they are.

[minionofmidas]

Apr 21, 2022 19:39:34 GMT aargauer said:

Mar 24, 2022 12:36:06 GMT minionofmidas said:

It could, just potentially, lead to some supporters of pro-Putin parties demoralized and just staying home. (RN, Lega, FPÖ, AfD, but also Linke, I'm looking at you.)

These days if the AfD don't put you off, Putin probably won't. They aren't putting up much pretence about who they are.

yeah, it's not really been happening in elections since that post.

[Georg Ebner]

I do presently not have the time to write myself more, but want to point - after all others might also be interested - to the election, that took place in Timor-Leste (and ended as usual with a victory for the [mid]left).