Table 2.
Differences between Ballot box voters and Internet voters in the 2014 consular elections
| Variables | Overall Ballot box voter turnout |
Effective Ballot box voter turnout |
Overall Internet voter turnout |
Effective Internet voter turnout |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| District-level | Community size | − 3.929*** | − 3.731*** | − 0.284 | − 0.224 |
| (0.579) | (0.570) | (0.257) | (0.251) | ||
| Distance with Paris | − 1.634** | − 1.554** | 0.177 | 0.168 | |
| (0.749) | (0.737) | (0.332) | (0.324) | ||
| French-speaking | − 2.600 | − 2.503 | − 0.399 | − 0.341 | |
| (1.634) | (1.608) | (0.725) | (0.708) | ||
| Number of lists | 1.326*** | 1.361*** | − 0.0172 | 0.0461 | |
| (0.395) | (0.388) | (0.175) | (0.171) | ||
| Country-level | Population size | − 0.227 | − 0.181 | 0.254* | 0.267* |
| (0.314) | (0.309) | (0.139) | (0.136) | ||
| Internet use | − 0.00781 | − 0.00439 | 0.0605*** | 0.0589*** | |
| (0.0267) | (0.0263) | (0.0119) | (0.0116) | ||
| Democracy | − 2.027 | − 1.834 | − 0.309 | − 0.183 | |
| (2.092) | (2.058) | (0.929) | (0.906) | ||
| Control | Colonial past | 7.282*** | 7.390*** | 0.318 | 0.388 |
| (1.762) | (1.734) | (0.782) | (0.764) | ||
| EU member | − 2.134 | − 1.982 | 2.192*** | 2.054** | |
| (1.812) | (1.783) | (0.804) | (0.785) | ||
| Model summary | Constant | 60.87*** | 56.93*** | 2.034 | 0.914 |
| (8.279) | (8.148) | (3.676) | (3.588) | ||
| Observations | 129 | 129 | 129 | 129 | |
| R-squared | 0.575 | 0.561 | 0.465 | 0.467 |
Standard errors in parentheses. *** p < 0.01, ** p < 0.05, * p < 0.1