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Turnout at the 1945 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, 1945

  1. Londonderry 88.1%
  2. Rossendale 83.4%
  3. Lancashire Clitheroe 83.2%
  4. Accrington 83.1%
  5. Cumberland Whitehaven 82.8%
  6. Rhondda East 82.8%
  7. Lancashire Darwen 82.7%
  8. Monmouthshire Ebbw Vale 82.6%
  9. Merionethshire 82.2%
  10. Yorkshire (West Riding) Keighley 82.2%

Lowest turnout

  1. Queen'S University of Belfast 51.6%
  2. Inverness Shire and Ross and Cromarty Western Isles 53.3%
  3. Orkney and Shetland 55.5%
  4. Glasgow Gorbals 56.8%
  5. Westminster St George'S 57.2%
  6. Shoreditch 57.6%
  7. Glasgow Bridgeton 58.2%
  8. Westminster Abbey 58.5%
  9. University of Wales 58.5%
  10. Inverness Shire and Ross and Cromarty Inverness 59.0%

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