Nottingham: it's difficult to quantify low local election turnouts when there's no real opposition

 This is the latest (and last) of my Nottinghamshire elections' analyses. The city has 55 councillors of whom 50 are Labour. Probably the three turnouts which jump out are the: Radford (17%); Lenton and Wollaton East (21%) and Wollaton West (49%), none of them close finishes. My table makes what comments I want to make, other than there is something unhealthy about an electoral system which enables one political party to sweep all others asides on low turnouts, but saying this this is the electorate speaking.

I also know from this exercise over the last few weeks that where there are elections using either a single transferrable vote system (STV) or a first past the post/added member system (AMS) the turn-out is lower than in FPTP elections (generally speaking), in which electors know that their votes will have more value has not resulted in higher turnouts — quite the reverse in fact!

I have always believed our electoral system(s) to be flawed and I would like to see more pluralistic government at all levels, but this a topic for another day. Right now, my focus is on the 2019 Nottingham City Council election and here is my table (click on the table to enlarge):