Nograles urges Dabawenyos to come out and vote in 2025
Former Civil Service Commission (CSC) chairperson and ex-three term Davao City 1st District Representative Atty. Karlo Nograles is urging fellow Dabawenyos to come out and vote in the 2025 midterm elections.
Citing data from two previous elections, Nograles, who is gunning for the mayoral post here, noted the city’s low voter turnout.
“In 2022, the voter turnout in Davao City was just 74%, which means one in four voters did not cast their vote. That is significantly lower than the national voter turnout of 82.6%,” he said in a statement on Tuesday, October 15, 2024.
He added, “what makes this figure just as troubling is that usually in a presidential election, more people vote...