Venezuela: A total of 3,040,449 votes were cast in opposition primary election

[ChangoLoa]

The Electoral Committee of the opposition Unified Democratic Panel (MUD) released a new report on its website saying that 3,040,449 Venezuelans voted in the primary elections held on Sunday, according to a review of 99% of the vote records.

http://www.eluniversal.com/nacional-y-politica/primarias-2012/120214/a-total-of-3040449-votes-were-cast-in-opposition-primary-election
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Which means that around 17% of the total national electorate voted in these primaries.

Does someone have an example of a more participative primary vote in history ?

[Bacchus4.0]

1. but the State media said no voters turned out????!!

I notice AVN and Telesur don't have much to say about the primary.

[ChangoLoa]

2. Our "public" (party) media was transmitting live music on that day

It was the Day of the Youth, see?

[joshcryer]

3. For perspective, this is 25% of the people who turned out in the 2006 and 2010 elections.

It may well be 17% of eligible voters but it's 25% of voters who vote.

Compare that to US Democratic Primaries in 2008 (most popular of all time) which was only 15% of the previous years turnout.

I'm focusing on turnout only not registered only.

This was one of the most stunning primary elections of all time in any country, imho.

[joshcryer]

4. "#3040449" is trending hard on twitter. Numer 1-4 global hit on Twitter. Boom.

http://www.twee.co/topics/3040449

http://tagdef.com/3040449

http://www.globovision.com/news.php?nid=219004

http://whatthetrend.com/

http://tweetstats.com/trends

https://twitter.com/#!/activity (change trends to "worldwide&quot