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Turnout at the 1950 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, 1950

  1. Fermanagh and South Tyrone 92.1%
  2. Lancashire Clitheroe 91.7%
  3. Mid-Ulster 91.6%
  4. Accrington 91.0%
  5. Blackburn West 89.6%
  6. Lancashire Darwen 89.6%
  7. Burnley 89.5%
  8. Northamptonshire (and the Soke of Peterborough) Wellingborough 89.5%
  9. Cheshire Macclesfield 89.4%
  10. Cumberland Workington 89.4%

Lowest turnout

  1. Inverness Shire and Ross and Cromarty Western Isles 55.7%
  2. Northumberland Hexham 61.9%
  3. Kirkcudbrightshire and Wigtownshire Galloway 63.0%
  4. Inverness Shire and Ross and Cromarty Ross and Cromarty 63.1%
  5. Antrim South 63.3%
  6. Fife West 66.5%
  7. Orkney and Shetland 67.7%
  8. Down North 68.1%
  9. Inverness Shire and Ross and Cromarty Inverness 68.6%
  10. Belfast South 69.3%

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