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General election 2019 voter turnout down on 2017 figure

Pedestrians stand in line to enter a polling station in Kensington, west London - Bloomberg
Pedestrians stand in line to enter a polling station in Kensington, west London - Bloomberg

Turnout for the 2019 general election was down on two years ago.  After 648 constituency results out of the 650 seats up for grabs were announced, the turnout stood at 31,897,334.

This equated to a turnout of 67.23 percent. The 2017 turnout after all the votes had been counted stood at 68.7 percent.

Turnout has steadily increased since 2001, when a measly 59.4 percent - down 11.9 percent on 1997 - elected Labour's Tony Blair to 10 Downing Street.

It reached 61.4 per cent in 2005 for Tony Blair's re-election, 65.1 percent for the Tory-Lib Dem coalition in 2010 and then up again to 66.1 percent in 2015 which resulted in the Lib Dem destruction.

There were, however, huge turnouts at some constituencies.

In East Dunbartonshire, where Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson is fighting to hold her seat against an SNP challenge, there was an 80.38 percent turnout, much higher than the average for the seats declared so far.