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Study challenges myths about Chile’s new voters’ age and socioeconomic profile

From Cooperativa · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Chile’s Electoral Service, Servel, studied voter participation and profiles during the country’s 2020-2025 electoral cycle, which included 16 votes.
  • The study identifies the new voter as a young urban middle-class adult who shares traits with traditional voters.
  • Servel adviser María Cristina Escudero said the new voter is similar to the regular voter, but less politicized, less likely to belong to a party and less accustomed to civic participation.

Chile’s newest voters do not fit the stereotype of a radically different electorate. A Servel study describes them as young, urban and middle class, with several traits in common with people who vote regularly.

What sets them apart, according to the study, is their distance from organized politics. The new voter is less politicized, has no party membership and does not vote with the same regularity as the traditional electorate.

Servel and the Department of Political Studies at the University of Chile presented the findings in “The New Electoral Map: Participation and Voter Profiles in Chile.” The research covers the 2020-2025 period, described as the country’s most demanding electoral cycle, with 16 votes.

Speaking on Cooperativa’s “Lo Que Queda Del Día,” Servel board adviser and University of Chile academic María Cristina Escudero said, “The new voter looks quite a lot like the regular voter, but as if in a mirror.” The comment captures the study’s central finding: the newer electorate resembles the established one while reflecting weaker political engagement and voting habits.

The new voter looks quite a lot like the regular voter, but as if in a mirror.

— María Cristina EscuderoThe Servel adviser and University of Chile academic summarized the study’s comparison between new and regular voters.
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Originally published by Cooperativa in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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