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Turnout at the 1964 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, 1964

  1. Monmouth 89.3%
  2. Wellingborough 87.1%
  3. East Flintshire 86.9%
  4. Shipley 86.7%
  5. Buckingham 86.5%
  6. Ulster Mid 86.4%
  7. Belper 86.1%
  8. Lanark 86.0%
  9. Rutherglen 86.0%
  10. West Derbyshire 85.8%

Lowest turnout

  1. Stepney 51.3%
  2. Islington South West 51.5%
  3. Birmingham Ladywood 53.7%
  4. Liverpool Exchange 54.4%
  5. Islington North 54.7%
  6. Shoreditch and Finsbury 55.7%
  7. Manchester Exchange 55.8%
  8. Southwark 55.9%
  9. Kensington South 56.8%
  10. Lambeth Brixton 57.0%

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