The overall turnout this year was 34.5 %, down considerably from the previous year's general election turnout at 43.9 per
cent turnout in Sheffield.
Not exact matches
Since the 1980s, when
turnout was 75 per
cent, it's sagged to a low of 61 per
cent in 2004 with a slight uptick to 64 per
cent in 2006.
In 2006, voters aged 55 - 64 had a 75.4 per
cent turnout.
Turnout in the two - month postal vote was 79.5 per
cent, higher than the 2016 referendum on the UK's EU membership and the most recent US election.
Turnout has plunged from over 70 per
cent before 1997 to just over 60 per
cent in 2005.
When you factor
in the low
turnout, less than 10 per
cent of voters actually gave the party their support.
Thus far
in the race, Boris has turned a deficit against Ken (of second - preference reallocated,
turnout - weighted polls) of 51 per
cent to 49 per
cent in March 2011, into a lead
in November 2011 on the same calculated basis of 54 per
cent to 46 per
cent.
With a
turnout of 36.2 per
cent, IWAR campaigners said this surpassed participation
in local elections.
For those rightly worried about the constant drop
in turnout at general elections, comfort can be gained from the fact that this is not necessarily a new phenomenon as the
turnout in Lambeth
in 1918 was a mere 29.7 per
cent.
00:18 -
Turnout data is just
in - 52 per
cent, which is very impressive indeed for a by - election.
The last one, which took place
in 2015, saw a
turnout of just 35.6 per
cent and yielded a bumper result for Ukip.
Mr McMahon won 17,209 votes to Ukip candidate John Bickley's 6,487 on a
turnout of 40 per
cent - down from 60 per
cent in May.
To put it
in context, Gray Davis» recall needed 12 % of voter
turnout in the last election — which meant that the petition gathers needed less than five per
cent of voters to sign.
Many jurisdictions require 25 % of voter
turnout in the last election, which is frequently less than the ten per
cent of all voters required under the proposed UK law.
In Egypt a
turnout of 48 per
cent is taken as evidence that the election is not legitimate.
Overall
turnout remains around 43 per
cent;
in Slovakia, a country that has done well out of EU membership, it was 13 per
cent.
It means more than 80 per
cent of Labour MPs say they have no confidence
in their leader, with a
turnout of 95 per
cent.
In 2004, just over 60 per
cent of eligible voters cast a ballot, but this was the highest
turnout since 1968.
Concerns about political engagement and voter
turnout among young people have long been recognised but not yet resolved: an estimated 44 per
cent of 18 - 24 year olds voted
in the 2010 general election, around 20 per
cent lower than overall
turnout.
Some 3 million new voters cast ballots, propelling voter
turnout to 68 per
cent, its highest level
in more than 20 years.
Anyone curious about why Stephen Harper's Conservatives seem so eager to please older voters need only consider the following data from Statistics Canada:
In 2011, the voter
turnout rate was about 50 per
cent among people aged 18 to 24, a few percentage points higher among 25 - to 34 - year - olds, but leapt to 70 per
cent for 45 - to 54 - year - olds, and crested at a remarkable 82 per
cent among potential voters between 65 and 74.
Turnout in Quebec was more than 44 per
cent compared to 34 per
cent in Ontario.
A low
turnout of just 34 per
cent of voters cast ballots
in district one — Vancouver — where six candidates were re-elected and four elected for the first time.
Two candidates were re-elected
in the district of Victoria, which had a 47 - per -
cent voter
turnout.
Similarly,
in the 2011 LSUC Bencher Election, voter
turnout increased and reversed a long - term trend of decreased participation, but only rose to 37 per
cent.
Only 34 per
cent of eligible voters cast their votes
in this election, even less than the 37 per
cent voter
turnout in the 2011 election.
Voter
turnout was about 45 per
cent and
in Regina and Saskatoon «there was certainly record
turnout for general meetings,» says Archibald, who was part of the Rationalization Taskforce that examined the dissolution of the associations and formation of a single association.