Barbados went to the polls on February 11 and, for the third consecutive time, the BLP secured a 30–0 victory. That, in itself, is historic — but it is not my focus here. What I am examining instead is voter turnout.
Soon after the election, I saw a horizontal bar chart circulating on Facebook showing voter turnout figures going back decades (see above). The chart looked authoritative, but no source was attached (I have since found out the Author of the chart). The Chart prompted me to go back to the official Election and Boundaries Commission (EBC) General Election reports.
(NOTE: You can access the reports directly from the EBC website here, or, via my archive website here. Yes, I know directory listing is enabled).
I dug through the reports year by year, extracted the number of registered voters and the number who voted, compared those figures to the turnout percentages published by the EBC, and then ran my own calculations. I also placed those results side by side with the figures shown in the circulating bar chart.
The result is the table above.