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Turnout at the 2015 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, 2015

  1. East Dunbartonshire 81.9%
  2. East Renfrewshire 81.1%
  3. Stirling 77.5%
  4. Twickenham 77.3%
  5. Ross, Skye and Lochaber 77.2%
  6. Sheffield, Hallam 76.7%
  7. Edinburgh West 76.5%
  8. Richmond Park 76.5%
  9. Kenilworth and Southam 76.3%
  10. Monmouth 76.2%

Lowest turnout

  1. Stoke-on-Trent Central 51.3%
  2. Blackley and Broughton 51.6%
  3. East Londonderry 51.9%
  4. Manchester Central 52.7%
  5. Birmingham, Ladywood 52.7%
  6. Strangford 52.8%
  7. Foyle 52.8%
  8. Middlesbrough 52.9%
  9. Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney 53.0%
  10. East Antrim 53.3%

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