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Turnout at the 1923 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, 1923

  1. Lancashire Darwen 90.6%
  2. Wednesbury 88.7%
  3. Lancashire Clitheroe 88.2%
  4. Carlisle 87.8%
  5. Rochdale 87.8%
  6. Devonshire Barnstaple 87.6%
  7. Stockton on Tees 87.5%
  8. The Hartlepools 87.5%
  9. Devonshire Tiverton 87.4%
  10. Burnley 87.3%

Lowest turnout

  1. Orkney and Shetland 39.1%
  2. Inverness Shire and Ross and Cromarty Western Isles 40.1%
  3. West Ham Silvertown 45.9%
  4. Middlesex Spelthorne 46.0%
  5. Paddington South 46.3%
  6. Inverness Shire and Ross and Cromarty Inverness 46.9%
  7. Shoreditch 47.4%
  8. Holborn 48.8%
  9. West Ham Plaistow 49.9%
  10. Liverpool Exchange 51.9%

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