| Year | 1945 | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | 1974F | 1974O | 1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 |
|---|
| % Turnout | 72.63§ | 83.61 | 81.91 | 76.79 | 78.73 | 77.09 | 75.81 | 71.95 | 78.79 | 72.78 | 75.98 | 72.66 | 75.34 | 77.72 | 71.29 | 59.38 | 61.36 | 65.11 |
§ 72.76% excluding university seats
Constituencies in order of turnout
NB: boundary changes took place from time to time during the period
Further details for each election are here:-
Links
- Electoral Commission report on turnout in 2005
- Attitudes to Voting and the Political Process, MORI
- BBC weather forecast
- Can Fair Voting Systems Really Make a Difference?, Facts and figures from Arend Lijphart's Patterns of Democracy
- The Effect of Information on Voter Turnout, David Dreyer Lassen
- Enhancing local electoral turnout, Rowntree Foundation
- Explaining Low Turnout In The 2001 Election, Nick Sparrow
- Learning in Elections and Voter Turnout, DeMichelis & Dhillon (pdf)
- Low turnout in UK elections -- Does rational indifference explain it?, P. R. Brahmananda
- None Of The Above: Non-Voters And The 2001 Election, MORI
- Party Choice and Voter Turnout in Britain, 2005
- Positive Abstention
- Report on the implications of online election campaigns, Electoral Commission
- Social Norms and Voter Turnout, Ben Klemens
- Turning Round Turnout, Jason Kitcat. Also pdf version
- Turnout at Local Elections
- UK politics: Dead or dormant?, Brian Wheeler
- Unemployment and Voter Turnout Rates, Timeweb
- Voter Turnout, Wikipedia
- Voter Turnout and Political Rents: Theory and Evidence, Gani Aldashev (pdf)
- Voter turnout: How much can we explain?, Matsusaka & Palda
- The Voter Turnout Puzzles, Mark Franklin (pdf)
- Voter Turnout in Europe since 1945, IDEA report (pdf)
Turnout in UK General Elections since 1945
Political Science Resources
© Richard Kimber
Last Modified: 22 Oct 12