Data
"Opportunities will be equal. The process will be fair. The result will be just." - Moon Jae-in
Data Visualisation
The dataset includes the percentage of the presidential election turnout in 17 regions in South Korea. To show the differences in turnout in presidential elections in the region, I decided to use the stacked bar chart. Stacked bar chart is a chart that uses bar to show the comparison between categories of data. Each bar in the chart represents a whole, and segments in the bar represent different parts or categories of that whole. This is chosen to show the total size of turnout as a part to whole relationship within the data.
Findings
The stacked bar chart above depicts the differences in turnout in presidential elections from 2002-2017, across the regions in south korea. The primary categorical variable is region: we can see from the sorted overall bar heights that Gwangju has the highest turnout and Chungnam has lowest. Each bar is subdivided based on levels of the second categorical variable, years. We can see that 2017 (19th) and 2012 (18th) presidential turnout exceeded 70% for every region, whereas 2007 (17th) appears to have a lower regional average turnout. The year 2002 (16th) has a mixture of 60% and 70% of presidential turnout by regions.
Insights
The turnout is rising compared to the past, but it is not continuous. In each presidential election, the turnout is affected by the spirit of the times, the theory of the person people want, or various issues. For example, during the 2012 presidential election, the turnout was not high because there were not many competitors to compete against. Also, if one party candidate is likely to win the election, voters who support the other candidate easily give up voting. However, when ideological conflicts such as progress and conservative, regime change, and regime maintenance are sharp, the turnout increases. The election after the impeachment of the elected president in2012, the presidential election has boasted the highest turnout among the last five presidential elections. Since it was a time when the desire for democracy was high, the turnout was inevitably high.
Conclusion
In conclusion, as time goes by, the democracy of the public grows and society begins to democratize, more people want to elect a president who represents themselves through direct voting. This phenomenon has begun to increase interest in politics even in the younger generation. Therefore, it gradually shows a high turnout by all age groups. Depending on the issues in which the demands of the times are expressed, the turnout in the presidential election is affected.
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