Election Turnout Uk By Year
More than 148 million votes have been counted so far in this year s us election of which 75 million popular votes were cast for joe biden a 50 year high in the country s history.
Election turnout uk by year. Spain s election of 2016 saw 61 2 of voters making their voices heard. Turnout at the 2019 general election was 67 3 across the uk a decrease of 1 5 percentage points from 2017 68 8 but still the second highest turnout since 1997. In the 2019 united kingdom general election voter turnout was 67 3 percent of eligible voters a 1 5 percent drop compared with the previous general election in 2017.
This insight looks at the parts of the uk where turnout was highest and lowest. Age gender class education and previous votes. The united states held its last election in 2016 and only 55 7 of voters showed up.
France also had a high voter turnout of 67 9 in 2017. In 2016 when donald trump beat hillary clinton voter turnout was 56. Yougov has conducted the largest survey yet on last week s general election interviewing over 40 000 british adults to discover patterns across demographics.
However at the last snap vote in 2017 wales was just behind england where 69 1 per. This is a list of united kingdom general elections elections for the uk house of commons since the first in 1802 the members of the 1801 1802 parliament had been elected to the former parliament of great britain and parliament of ireland before being co opted to serve in the first parliament of the united kingdom so that parliament is not included in the table below. Mirror politics newsletter the e mail you need to navigate a crisis hit uk.
Yougov conducts one of britain s biggest ever post election surveys to chart how the nation s political character is shifting. Turnout estimates should be treated with caution but show a broadly similar pattern to previous elections of higher turnout among older people and graduates and lower among younger people renters and bme voters. The lib dems also saw an increase in their vote share of nine points among 35 54 year olds in social class ab.
Canada s last election in 2015 drew in 62 1 of voters. In the same year the united kingdom had a voter turnout of 63 2.