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Turnout at the 2017 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, 2017

  1. Twickenham 79.5%
  2. Oxford West and Abingdon 79.4%
  3. Richmond Park 79.1%
  4. Winchester 78.8%
  5. Wirral West 78.5%
  6. Wirral South 78.4%
  7. St Albans 78.3%
  8. East Dunbartonshire 78.1%
  9. Rushcliffe 78.0%
  10. Hornsey and Wood Green 77.9%

Lowest turnout

  1. Glasgow North East 53.0%
  2. Leeds Central 53.2%
  3. Glasgow East 54.6%
  4. West Bromwich West 54.7%
  5. Manchester Central 55.1%
  6. Kingston upon Hull East 55.5%
  7. Glasgow Central 55.9%
  8. Blackley and Broughton 56.0%
  9. Glasgow South West 56.2%
  10. Walsall North 56.6%

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