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Turnout at the 1970 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, 1970

  1. Ulster Mid 91.4%
  2. Fermanagh and South Tyrone 91.2%
  3. North Cornwall 85.2%
  4. North Devon 84.9%
  5. Belfast West 84.6%
  6. Merioneth 84.3%
  7. Berwick and East Lothian 83.7%
  8. Carmarthen 83.7%
  9. Caithness and Sutherland 83.1%
  10. Shipley 82.4%

Lowest turnout

  1. Stepney 44.9%
  2. Southwark 48.2%
  3. Shoreditch and Finsbury 48.7%
  4. Poplar 48.8%
  5. West Ham South 48.9%
  6. Islington South West 48.9%
  7. Islington North 49.0%
  8. Kensington South 49.9%
  9. Camberwell Peckham 49.9%
  10. Stoke on Trent Central 50.0%

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