30.5% of all votes for Estonian parliamentary election submitted online

This year, 30.5 percent of all votes in the Riigikogu elections were made electronically, of which a whole quarter were from older people. By comparison, just 7 percent of all e-voters were in the youngest age group, between 18 and 24, Postimees Online reports.

According to the National Election Commission, 25 percent of all e-voters were over 55 years of age; the share of people 25-34 years of age was the same. 19 percent were aged 45-54, and only 7 percent of people who voted electronically were in the youngest group, i.e. 18-24 years of age.

Sociologist Aivar Voog was not surprised by these results: "the share of people over 55 years of age of all voting-age citizens is 36 percent, so there are just so many more of them. However, among e-voters their share was considerably less - only 25 percent," he pointed out.

"Also, the proportion of younger people among e-voters is significantly less than among the total voting-age citizenry (11 percent of the voting-age citizens). Thus, among e-voters, the share of the youngest and the eldest is smaller than might be expected given the proportions of the entire citizenry. This is normal," said Voog.

In total, 176,491 people e-voted at this year's elections.