change the control of power in many legislative assemblies. Columns 2, 4, and 6 present the robustness tests allowing for state-specific trends and all three results are virtually unchanged. These additional tests lend credibility to the parallel trends assumption, because relaxing the assumption is inconsequential for the subsequent estimates. According to these results, average turnout in the absence of compulsory voting during this period would
have been 67 percent, and the Labor Party would have received 44 percent of the votes. However,
average turnout with compulsory voting would have been 91 percent, and Labor would have received 53
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