Now that Nom­i­na­tion Day has come and gone, the spot­light now shifts to vot­er turnout—an un­pre­dictable yet de­ci­sive fac­tor that could shape the out­come of the 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion for every par­ty and can­di­date in the race.

As the 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion cam­paign heats up, one crit­i­cal fac­tor looms large: how many peo­ple will ac­tu­al­ly show up to cast a bal­lot? To un­der­stand what is at stake, an ex­am­i­na­tion of sta­tis­tics from the 2020 gen­er­al elec­tion will give us some in­sight in­to how turnout af­fect­ed that elec­tion.

The of­fi­cial turnout in 2020 was 58.04 per cent of the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion's (EBC) list of vot­ers, and the PNM walked away with 49.08 per cent of the votes cast, se­cur­ing 22 seats out of 41 they con­test­ed. The UNC earned 47.09 per cent of the votes cast and won 19 seats out of 39 seats they con­test­ed.