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Turnout at the 2019 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, 2019

  1. East Dunbartonshire 80.3%
  2. Richmond Park 78.7%
  3. Rushcliffe 78.5%
  4. Central Devon 78.2%
  5. Sheffield, Hallam 78.2%
  6. St Albans 78.1%
  7. Stroud 78.0%
  8. Winchester 77.9%
  9. Westmorland and Lonsdale 77.8%
  10. Esher and Walton 77.7%

Lowest turnout

  1. Kingston upon Hull East 49.3%
  2. Chorley 51.7%
  3. Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle 52.1%
  4. Kingston upon Hull North 52.2%
  5. Blackley and Broughton 52.6%
  6. Nottingham North 53.1%
  7. Wolverhampton South East 53.2%
  8. Birmingham, Erdington 53.3%
  9. West Bromwich West 53.4%
  10. Leicester West 53.5%

Official results House of Commons Library and UK Parliament election results data. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. How we use this data