No. The number of eligible voters is that number of people that are registered to vote and are not prohibited from doing so for some reason.
It would be a unique event if all eligible voters actually did vote.
In most elections, even national ones, it is considered a good turnout if 50% of the eligible people actually turn out to vote.
Local elections can have an even smaller turn out.
The electorate is a group of people who are entitled to cast votes in an election.
Electorate
The ratio of yes votes to no votes in an election was to . How many yes votes were cast if there were a total of votes cast?
to win an election is it necessary for a person to secure more than half the votes polled
About 8,087,000 votes were cast in Texas in the 2008 presidential election.
counting the electoral votes that were cast in the presidential election
Pennsylvania cast 6,013,272 votes in the 2008 presidential election, translating into 21 electoral votes which were cast for Barack Obama (D).
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Massachusetts cast its 12 electoral votes for Barack Obama in the 2008 election.
Utah has one vote per resident age 18 or over. In the past 2008 presidential election, Utah cast 952,370 votes for president, translating into 5 electoral votes. Utah has 6 electoral votes in the 2012 presidential election.
According to a CNN "National Exit Poll", 12% of the respondants were African-American. If we apply this to the total number of votes cast in the election (for both candidates) we can see an approximation of the number of Afican-American votes cast in said election. 66,882,230 Votes for Obama + 58,343,671 Votes for McCain = 125,225,901 Votes total 125,225,901 * .12 = 15,027,108 African American Votes cast. Approximately.
About 5.5 million votes were cast in the 2008 Presidential election.
Majority
The citizens who cast votes for a particular nominnee in an election.