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Turnout at the 1922 general election

Turnout at every general election since 1918, and the constituencies with the highest and lowest turnout.

0%21%42%62.9%83.9%1918: 57.2%19181922: 72.9%1923: 71.1%1924: 77.0%19241929: 76.3%1931: 76.4%1935: 71.1%19351945: 72.8%1950: 83.9%1951: 82.6%19511955: 76.8%1959: 78.7%1964: 77.1%19641966: 75.8%1970: 72.0%F1974: 78.8%F1974O1974: 72.8%1979: 75.9%1983: 71.8%19831987: 75.3%1992: 77.7%1997: 71.4%19972001: 59.4%2005: 61.5%2010: 65.1%20102015: 66.2%2017: 68.8%2019: 67.3%20192024: 59.7%
Turnout at each general election (valid votes / electorate, contested seats)

Highest turnout, 1922

  1. Lancashire Darwen 91.4%
  2. Merthyr Tydfil Merthyr 90.6%
  3. Leigh 89.9%
  4. Wigan 88.9%
  5. Accrington 88.7%
  6. Burnley 88.7%
  7. Glamorganshire Aberavon 88.6%
  8. Darlington 88.0%
  9. The Hartlepools 87.2%
  10. University of Wales 87.2%

Lowest turnout

  1. Orkney and Shetland 37.4%
  2. Inverness Shire and Ross and Cromarty Ross and Cromarty 42.4%
  3. Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire Kincardine and Western 44.6%
  4. Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire Eastern 45.3%
  5. Paddington North 45.6%
  6. Holborn 47.2%
  7. Shoreditch 47.4%
  8. Westminster Abbey 49.0%
  9. West Ham Silvertown 49.0%
  10. Moray and Nairnshire 49.0%

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