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Turnout at the 1979 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, 1979

  1. Kingswood 86.2%
  2. North Cornwall 86.1%
  3. Welwyn and Hatfield 85.0%
  4. Hemel Hempstead 84.8%
  5. Bosworth 84.5%
  6. Carmarthen 84.4%
  7. Brecon and Radnor 84.2%
  8. Skipton 84.1%
  9. Dunbartonshire East 83.9%
  10. Gloucestershire West 83.9%

Lowest turnout

  1. Stepney and Poplar 53.3%
  2. Cities of London and Westminster 55.1%
  3. Bethnal Green 55.5%
  4. Newham South 57.1%
  5. Chelsea 57.3%
  6. Liverpool Scotland 57.4%
  7. Camberwell Peckham 57.7%
  8. Antrim South 58.2%
  9. Bermondsey 59.3%
  10. Glasgow Central 59.5%

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