Why do young people abstain so much in elections?

Young people largely abstain from elections, for what reasons?

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Abstention, that is to say the absence of a vote by a voter, is by far the favorite candidate of young people in the elections... In the first round of the presidential election of 2022, 4 voters from less than 35 out of 10 did not vote.

In the regional elections of 2021, abstention had broken through the ceiling among 18-24 year olds: nearly 9 out of 10 voters had abstained.

Why is the abstention rate among young people increasing?

Is it indifference, a supposed lack of civility, or linked to “poor registration” on the electoral lists?

What do the new forms of participation reveal?

To answer, Anne Muxel, director of research in sociology and political science CNRS at Cevipof (Sciences Po).

She is the author, in particular, of

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