The UK has historically been held up as leading democracy with free and fair elections. However, our new report shows ...

The turnout was 11% higher in constituencies with the highest proportion of over 64-year-olds, compared with the lowest, the report stated. Also read: UK Election 2024: Labour Party origin, vision ...

But the UK’s general election turnout may not reach its former highs, which sometimes exceeded 70 or even 80 per cent. As in other Western democracies in recent years, turnout above 60 per cent ...

Yet in the UK, voter turnout is falling. In 2024, just over half ... She is calling on the UK to “follow the example of democracies around the world where automated voter registration is the norm,” ...

Voter turnout is reported to have been the lowest since 2001 in last week’s UK general election, at just 59.9 per cent. At just 0.5 points above 2001’s low of 59.4 per cent, this year’s election ...

Report shows lowest turnout in UK general election since universal suffrage. Voter turnout was 10 percent lower in areas with the most Muslims as Israel’s war on Gaza remains a key issue.

Across the world, electoral turnout is in decline. In the 1940s, on average, around 85% of people would turn up to vote in elections in democratic nations; that figure now sits at 67%.