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Voter Turnout by constituency, 1997 General Election

The table below shows general election turnout for each United Kingdom constituency at the 1997 general election. You can sort the table data by clicking on the column headings.

Figures do not include spoiled votes. An asterix next to a constituency name indicates a by-election.

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CONSTITUENCY TURNOUT % ELECTORATE
Aberavon 71.9 50025
Aberdeen Central 65.6 54257
Aberdeen North 70.7 54302
Aberdeen South 72.8 60490
Aberdeenshire West & Kincardine 73 59123
Airdrie & Shotts 71.4 57673
Aldershot 71.1 76189
Aldridge-Brownhills 74.3 62441
Altrincham & Sale West 73.3 70265
Alyn & Deeside 72.2 58091
Amber Valley 76.1 72005
Angus 72.1 59708
Antrim East 58.3 58963
Antrim North 63.8 72411
Antrim South* 43 71047
Argyll & Bute 72.2 49451
Arundel and South Downs 75.9 67641
Ashfield 70 72269
Ashford 74.6 74149
Ashton Under Lyne 65.5 72206
Aylesbury 72.8 79047
Ayr 80.2 55829
Banbury 75.5 77456
Banff & Buchan 68.7 58493
Barking 61.4 53682
Barnsley Central 59.7 61133
Barnsley East & Mexborough 63.9 67840
Barnsley West & Penistone 65 64894
Barrow & Furness 72 66960
Basildon 71.7 73989
Basingstoke 74.2 77035
Bassetlaw 70.4 68101
Bath 76.2 70815
Batley & Spen 73.1 64209
Battersea 70.8 66928
Beaconsfield 72.8 68959
Beckenham* 43.5 72807
Bedford 73.5 66560
Bedfordshire Mid 78.4 66979
Bedfordshire North East 77.8 64743
Bedfordshire South West 75.8 69781
Belfast East 63.2 61744
Belfast North 64.2 64577
Belfast South 62.2 63439
Belfast West 74.3 61785
Berwick-upon-Tweed 74.1 56428
Bethnal Green & Bow 61.2 73008
Beverley & Holderness 73.6 71916
Bexhill & Battle 74.7 65584
Bexleyheath & Crayford 76.1 63334
Billericay 72.4 76550
Birkenhead 65.8 59782
Birmingham Edgbaston 69 70204
Birmingham Erdington 60.9 66380
Birmingham Hall Green 71.2 58767
Birmingham Hodge Hill 60.9 56066
Birmingham Ladywood 54.2 70013
Birmingham Northfield 68.3 56842
Birmingham Perry Barr 64.6 71031
Birmingham Selly Oak 70.2 72049
Birmingham Sparkbrook & Smallheath 57.1 73130
Birmingham Yardley 71.2 53058
Bishop Auckland 68.9 66754
Blaby 76 70471
Blackburn 65 73058
Blackpool North & Fleetwood 71.7 74989
Blackpool South 67.8 75720
Blaenau Gwent 72.3 54800
Blaydon 71 64699
Blyth Valley 68.8 61761
Bognor Regis & Littlehampton 69.9 66480
Bolsover 71.3 66476
Bolton North East 72.4 67930
Bolton South East 65.2 66459
Bolton West 77.4 63535
Bootle 66.7 57284
Boston & Skegness 68.9 67623
Bosworth 76.6 68113
Bournemouth East 70.2 61862
Bournemouth West 66.2 62028
Bracknell 74.5 79292
Bradford North 63.3 66228
Bradford South 65.9 68391
Bradford West 63.3 71961
Braintree 76.4 72772
Brecon & Radnorshire 82.2 52142
Brent East 65.9 53548
Brent North 70.5 54149
Brent South 64.5 53505
Brentford & Isleworth 71 79058
Brentwood & Ongar 76.8 66005
Bridgend 72.4 59721
Bridgwater 74.8 73038
Brigg & Goole 73.5 63648
Brighton Kemptown 70.8 65147
Brighton Pavillion 73.7 66431
Bristol East 69.6 68990
Bristol North West 73.7 75009
Bristol South 68.9 72393
Bristol West 73.8 84870
Bromley & Chislehurst 74.2 71104
Bromsgrove 77.1 67744
Broxbourne 70.4 66720
Broxtowe 78.4 74144
Buckingham 78.5 62945
Burnley 67 67582
Burton 75.1 72601
Bury North 78.1 70515
Bury South 75.6 66568
Bury St Edmunds 75 74017
Caernarfon 72.7 46815
Caerphilly 70 64621
Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross 70.2 41566
Calder Valley 75.4 74901
Camberwell & Peckham 56.7 50214
Cambridge 71.6 71669
Cambridgeshire North East 72.9 76056
Cambridgeshire North West 74.2 65791
Cambridgeshire South 76.8 69850
Cambridgeshire South East 75.1 75666
Cannock Chase 72.4 72362
Canterbury 72.6 74548
Cardiff Central 70 60354
Cardiff North 80.2 60430
Cardiff South & Penarth 68.6 61838
Cardiff West 69.2 58198
Carlisle 72.8 59917
Carmarthen West & Pembrokeshire 76.5 55724
Carmathen East & Dinefwr 78.6 53079
Carrick, Cumnock & Doon Valley 75 65593
Carshalton & Wallington 73.3 66038
Castle Point 72.3 67146
Ceredigion* 46.02 54378
Charnwood 77.3 72692
Chatham & Aylesford 71.1 69172
Cheadle 77.6 67627
Chelmsford West 77 76086
Cheltenham 74 67950
Chesham & Amersham 75.4 69244
Chester, City of 78.4 71730
Chesterfield 70.9 72472
Chichester 74.9 74489
Chingford & Woodford Green 70.7 62904
Chipping Barnet 71.8 69049
Chorley 77.6 74387
Christchurch 78.6 71488
Cities of London & Westminster 58.2 69047
Cleethorpes 73.4 68763
Clwyd South 73.6 53495
Clwyd West 75.3 53467
Clydebank & Milngavie 75 52092
Clydesdale 71.6 63428
Coatbridge & Chryston 72.3 52024
Colchester 69.6 74743
Colne Valley 76.9 73338
Congleton 77.6 68873
Conwy 75.4 55092
Copeland 76.2 54263
Corby 77.9 69252
Cornwall North 73.2 80076
Cornwall South East 75.7 75825
Cotswold 75.9 67333
Coventry North East 64.7 74274
Coventry North West 71.1 76439
Coventry South 69.8 71826
Crawley 73 69040
Crewe & Nantwich 73.7 68694
Crosby 77.2 57190
Croydon Central 69.6 80152
Croydon North 68.2 77063
Croydon South 73.5 73787
Cumbernauld & Kilsyth 75 48032
Cunninghame North 74.1 55526
Cunninghame South 71.5 49543
Cynon Valley 69.2 48286
Dagenham 61.7 58573
Darlington 74 65140
Dartford 74.6 69726
Daventry 77 80151
Delyn 74 53693
Denton & Reddish 66.9 68866
Derby North 73.8 76116
Derby South 67.8 76386
Derbyshire North East 72.5 71653
Derbyshire South 78.2 76672
Derbyshire West 78.2 72716
Devizes 74.7 80383
Devon East 76.1 69094
Devon North 77.9 70350
Devon South West 76.2 69293
Devon West & Torridge 77.9 75919
Dewsbury 70 61523
Don Valley 66.3 65643
Doncaster Central 63.9 67965
Doncaster North 63.3 63019
Dorset Mid & Poole North 75.7 67049
Dorset North 76.3 68923
Dorset South 74.2 66318
Dorset West 76.1 70369
Dover 78.9 68669
Down North 58 63010
Down South 70.8 69855
Dudley North 69.5 68835
Dudley South 71.8 66731
Dulwich & West Norwood 65.5 69655
Dumbarton 73.4 56229
Dumfries 78.9 62759
Dundee East 69.4 58388
Dundee West 67.7 57346
Dunfermline East 70.2 52072
Dunfermline West 69.4 52467
Durham North 69.5 67891
Durham North West 69 67156
Durham, City of 70.9 69340
Ealing North 71.3 78144
Ealing Southall 66.9 81704
Ealing, Acton & Shepherd's Bush 66.7 72078
Easington 67 62518
East Ham 60.8 65591
East Kilbride 74.8 65229
East Lothian 75.6 57441
Eastbourne 72.8 72347
Eastleigh 76.9 72155
Eastwood 78.3 66697
Eccles 65.6 69645
Eddisbury* 51.4 65256
Edinburgh Central 67.1 63695
Edinburgh East & Musselburgh 70.6 59648
Edinburgh North & Leith 66.5 61617
Edinburgh Pentlands 76.7 59635
Edinburgh South 71.8 62467
Edinburgh West 77.9 61133
Edmonton 70.4 63718
Ellesmere Port & Neston 77.8 67573
Elmet 76.8 70423
Eltham 75.7 57358
Enfield North 70.4 67680
Enfield Southgate 70.7 65796
Epping Forest 72.8 72795
Epsom & Ewell 74 73222
Erewash 78 77402
Erith & Thamesmead 66.1 62887
Esher & Walton 74.1 72382
Essex North 75.3 68008
Exeter 78.2 79154
Falkirk East 73.2 56792
Falkirk West* 36.15 53953
Falmouth & Cambourne 75.1 71383
Fareham 75.8 68787
Faversham & Kent Mid 73.5 67490
Feltham & Heston 65.6 71093
Fermanagh & South Tyrone 74.8 64600
Fife Central 69.9 58315
Fife North East 71.2 58794
Finchley & Golders Green 69.7 72225
Folkestone & Hythe 73.2 71153
Forest of Dean 79.1 63465
Foyle 70.7 67620
Fylde 72.9 71385
Gainsborough 74.6 64106
Galloway & Upper Nithsdale 79.7 52751
Gateshead East & Washington West 67.2 64114
Gedling 75.8 68820
Gillingham 72 70389
Glasgow Anniesland* 38.4 52609
Glasgow Baillieston 62.3 51152
Glasgow Cathcart 69.2 49312
Glasgow Govan 64.7 49836
Glasgow Kelvin 56.9 57438
Glasgow Maryhill 56.6 52523
Glasgow Pollok 66.6 49284
Glasgow Rutherglen 70.1 50646
Glasgow Shettleston 55.9 47990
Glasgow Springburn 59 53473
Gloucester 73.6 78682
Gordon 71.9 58767
Gosport 70.2 68830
Gower 75.1 57691
Grantham & Stamford 73.2 72310
Gravesham 76.9 69234
Great Grimsby 66.3 65043
Great Yarmouth 71.2 68625
Greenock & Inverclyde 71 48818
Greenwich & Woolwich 65.8 61352
Guildford 75.4 75541
Hackney North & Stoke Newington 53 62045
Hackney South & Shoreditch 54.7 61728
Halesowen & Rowley Regis 73.6 66245
Halifax 70.5 71701
Haltemprice & Howden 75.5 65602
Halton 68.4 64987
Hamilton North & Bellshill 70.9 53607
Hamilton South* 41.3 47071
Hammersmith & Fulham 68.7 78637
Hampshire East 75.9 76604
Hampshire North East 74 69111
Hampshire North West 74.7 73222
Hampstead & Highgate 67.9 64889
Harborough 75.3 70424
Harlow 74.6 64072
Harrow East 71.4 79846
Harrow West 72.9 72005
Harrogate & Knaresborough 73.1 65155
Hartlepool 65.7 67712
Harwich 70.6 75775
Hastings & Rye 69.7 70388
Havant 70.6 68420
Hayes & Harlington 72.3 56829
Hazel Grove 77.5 63694
Hemel Hempstead 77.1 71468
Hemsworth 67.9 66964
Hendon 65.7 76195
Henley 77.6 66424
Hereford 75.2 69864
Hertford & Stortford 76 71759
Hertfordshire North East 77.4 67161
Hertfordshire South West 77.3 71671
Hertsmere 74 68011
Hexham 77.5 58914
Heywood & Middleton 68.4 73898
High Peak 79 72315
Hitchin & Harpenden 78 67219
Holborn & St. Pancras 60.3 63037
Hornchurch 72.3 60775
Hornsey & Wood Green 69.1 74537
Horsham 75.8 75432
Houghton & Washington East 62.1 67343
Hove 69.7 69016
Huddersfield 67.7 65824
Hull East 58.9 68733
Hull North 57 68106
Hull West & Hessle 58.2 65840
Huntingdon 74.9 76094
Hyndburn 72.3 66806
Ilford North 71.6 68218
Ilford South 69.4 72104
Inverness East, Nairn & Lochaber 72.7 65701
Ipswich 72.2 66947
Isle of Wight 72 101680
Islington North 62.5 57385
Islington South & Finsbury 63.7 55468
Islwyn 72 50540
Jarrow 68.8 63828
Keighley 76.6 67231
Kensington & Chelsea* 29.8 65752
Kettering 75.8 75153
Kilmarnock & Loudoun 77.2 61376
Kingston & Surbiton 75.3 73879
Kingswood 77.8 77026
Kirkcaldy 67 52186
Knowsley North & Sefton 70.1 70918
Knowsley South 67.5 70532
Lagan Valley 62.2 71225
Lancashire West 74.8 73175
Lancaster & Wyre 75.3 78168
Leeds Central* 19.6 67302
Leeds East 62.8 56963
Leeds North East 72 63185
Leeds North West 70.6 69972
Leeds West 62.9 63965
Leicester East 69.4 64012
Leicester South 67.1 71750
Leicester West 63.4 64570
Leicestershire North West 80 65069
Leigh 65.7 69908
Leominster 76.6 65933
Lewes 76.4 64340
Lewisham Deptford 57.9 58141
Lewisham East 66.4 56333
Lewisham West 64 58659
Leyton & Wanstead 63.2 62176
Lichfield 77.5 62720
Lincoln 71.1 65485
Linlithgow 73.8 53706
Liverpool Garston 65.1 66755
Liverpool Riverside 51.9 73429
Liverpool Walton 59.5 67527
Liverpool Wavertree 62.9 73063
Liverpool West Derby 61.4 68682
Livingston 71 60296
Llanelli 70.7 58323
Londonderry East 64.8 58831
Loughborough 76 68945
Louth & Horncastle 72.6 68824
Ludlow 75.5 61267
Luton North 73.2 64618
Luton South 70.5 68395
Macclesfield 75.2 72049
Maidenhead 75.6 67302
Maidstone & The Weald 74 72466
Makerfield 66.8 67358
Maldon & Chelmsford East 76.1 66184
Manchester Blackley 57.5 62227
Manchester Central 52.5 63815
Manchester Gorton 56.4 64349
Manchester Withington 66.6 66116
Mansfield 70.7 67057
Medway 72.5 61736
Meirionnydd Nant Conwy 76 32345
Meriden 71.7 76287
Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney 69.3 56507
Middlesbrough 65 70931
Middlesborough South & Cleveland East 76 70481
Midlothian 74.1 47552
Milton Keynes North East 72.8 70395
Milton Keynes South West 71.4 71070
Mitcham & Morden 73.3 65385
Mole Valley 78.9 69140
Monmouth 80.8 60703
Montgomeryshire 74.9 42618
Moray 68.2 58302
Morecambe & Lunesdale 72.4 68013
Morely & Rothwell 67.1 68385
Motherwell & Wishaw 70.1 52252
Neath 74.3 55525
New Forest East 74.6 65717
New Forest West 74.8 66522
Newark 76.7 69763
Newbury 76.7 73680
Newcastle Upon Tyne Central 66 69781
Newcastle upon Tyne East & Wallsend 65.7 63272
Newcastle Upon Tyne North 69.2 65357
Newcastle-under-Lyme 73.7 66686
Newport East 73.1 50997
Newport West 74.6 53914
Newry & Armagh 75.4 70652
Norfolk Mid 76.3 75311
Norfolk North 76.3 77113
Norfolk North West 74.7 77083
Norfolk South 78.4 79239
Norfolk South West 73.3 80236
Normanton 68.3 62980
Northampton North 70.2 73664
Northampton South 71.9 79384
Northavon 79.2 78943
Norwich North 75.9 72521
Norwich South 72.6 70009
Nottingham East 60.6 65581
Nottingham North 63 65698
Nottingham South 67 72418
Nuneaton 74.3 72032
Ochil 77.4 56572
Ogmore 73.1 52078
Old Bexley & Sidcup 75.5 68044
Oldham East & Saddlewoth 73.9 73189
Oldham West & Royton 66.1 69203
Orkney & Shetland 64 32291
Orpington 76.4 78749
Oxford East 69 69339
Oxford West & Abingdon 77.1 79329
Paisley North 68.7 49725
Paisley South* 42.9 54040
Pendle 74.6 63049
Penrith & The Border 73.6 66496
Perth 73.9 60313
Peterborough 73.5 65926
Plymouth Devonport 69.8 74483
Plymouth Sutton 67.4 70666
Pontefract & Castleford 66.4 62350
Pontypridd 71.4 64185
Poole 70.8 66078
Poplar & Canning Town 58.5 67172
Portsmouth North 70.1 64539
Portsmouth South 64.2 80514
Preseli Pembrokeshire 78.4 54088
Preston* 29.4 72687
Pudsey 74.3 70922
Putney 73.1 60176
Rayleigh 74.7 68737
Reading East 70.2 71586
Reading West 70 69073
Redcar 71 68965
Redditch 73.5 60841
Regent's Park & Kensington North 64.2 73752
Reigate 74.4 64750
Renfrewshire West 76 52348
Rhondda 71.5 57105
Ribble South 77.1 71670
Ribble Valley 78.8 72664
Richmond (Yorks) 73.4 65058
Richmond Park 79.4 71572
Rochdale 70.2 68529
Rochford & Southend East 64 72848
Romford 70.7 59611
Romsey* 55.5 -
Ross, Skye & Inverness West 71.8 55639
Rossendale & Darwen 73.4 69749
Rother Valley 67.3 68622
Rotherham 62.9 59895
Roxburgh & Berwickshire 73.9 47259
Rugby & Kenilworth 77.1 79384
Ruislip-Northwood 74.2 60393
Runnymede & Weybridge 71.4 72177
Rushcliffe 78.9 78735
Rutland & Melton 75 70150
Ryedale 74.8 65215
Saffron Walden 77 74097
Salford 56.5 58610
Salisbury 73.8 78973
Scarborough & Whitby 71.6 75862
Scunthorpe 68.8 60393
Sedgefield 72.6 64923
Selby 75 75141
Sevenoaks 75.4 66474
Sheffield Attercliffe 64.7 68548
Sheffield Brightside 57.5 58930
Sheffield Central 53 68667
Sheffield Hallam 72.4 62834
Sheffield Heeley 65 66599
Sheffield Hillsborough 71 74642
Sherwood 75.6 74788
Shipley 76.3 69281
Shrewsbury & Atcham 75.2 73542
Shropshire North 72.7 70852
Sittingbourne & Sheppey 72.3 63850
Skipton & Ripon 75.4 72042
Sleaford & North Hykeham 74.4 71486
Slough 67.9 70283
Solihull 74.7 78898
Somerton & Frome 77.6 73988
South Holland & The Deepings 72 69642
South Shields 62.6 62261
Southampton Itchen 70.1 76869
Southampton Test 71.8 72983
Southend West 70 66493
Southport 72.1 70194
Southwark North & Bermondsey 62.2 65598
Spelthorne 73.6 70562
St Albans 77.5 65560
St Helens North 69 71380
St Helens South 66.5 66526
St Ives 75.2 71680
Stafford 76.6 67555
Staffordshire Moorlands 77.3 66095
Staffordshire South 74.2 68896
Stalybridge & Hyde 65.8 65468
Stevenage 76.8 66889
Stirling 81.8 52491
Stockport 71.5 65232
Stockton North 69.1 64380
Stockton South 76.1 68470
Stoke-on-Trent Central 62.8 64113
Stoke-on-Trent North 65.5 59030
Stoke-on-Trent South 66.1 69968
Stone 77.8 68242
Stourbridge 76.5 64966
Strangford 59.5 69980
Stratford-on-Avon 76.3 81434
Strathkelvin & Bearsdon 71 62974
Streatham 60.2 74509
Stretford & Urmston 69.7 69913
Stroud 80.5 77494
Suffolk Central & Ipswich North 75.2 70222
Suffolk Coastal 75.8 74219
Suffolk South 77.2 67323
Suffolk West 71.5 68638
Sunderland North 59 64711
Sunderland South 58.8 67937
Surrey East 75 72852
Surrey Heath 74.1 73813
Surrey South West 78 72350
Sussex Mid 77.7 68784
Sutton & Cheam 75 62785
Sutton Coldfield 72.9 71864
Swansea East 67.4 57373
Swansea West 68.9 58703
Swindon North 73.7 65535
Swindon South 72.9 70207
Tamworth 74.2 67205
Tatton 76.5 63822
Taunton 76.5 79783
Tayside North 74.2 61398
Teignbridge 77.1 81667
Telford 65.6 56558
Tewkesbury 76.5 68208
Thanet North 68.8 71112
Thanet South 71.7 62792
Thurrock 65.9 71600
Tiverton & Honiton 78.1 75744
Tonbridge & Malling 76 64798
Tooting 69.2 66653
Torbay 73.8 72258
Torfaen 71.7 60343
Totnes 76.3 70473
Tottenham* 25.4 64554
Truro & St Austell 73.9 76824
Tunbridge Wells 74.1 65259
Tweedale, Ettrick & Lauderdale 76.6 50891
Twickenham 79.3 73281
Tyne Bridge 57.1 61058
Tynemouth 77.1 66341
Tyneside North 67.8 66449
Tyrone West 79.5 58168
Ulster Mid 86.1 58836
Upminster 72.3 57149
Upper Bann 67.9 70398
Uxbridge* 55 57733
Vale of Clwyd 74.7 52418
Vale of Glamorgan 80.2 67213
Vale of York 76 70077
Vauxhall 55.5 70402
Wakefield 69 73210
Wallasey 73.5 63714
Walsall North 64.1 67587
Walsall South 67.3 64221
Walthamstow 62.8 63818
Wansbeck 71.7 62998
Wansdyke 79.3 69032
Wantage 78.2 71657
Warley 65.1 59758
Warrington North 70.5 72694
Warrington South 76.2 72262
Warwick & Leamington 75.7 79374
Warwickshire North 74.7 72602
Watford 74.6 74015
Waveney 75.2 75266
Wealden 74.3 79519
Weaver Vale 73.2 66011
Wellingborough 75.1 74955
Wells 78.1 72178
Welwyn Hatfield 78.6 67395
Wentworth 65.3 63951
West Bromich East 65.4 63401
West Bromich West* 27.6 68409
West Ham 59 57058
Westbury 76.4 74301
Western Isles 70.1 22983
Westmorland & Lonsdale 74.3 68389
Weston - Super - Mare 73.7 72445
Wigan* 25 64535
Wiltshire North 75.1 77237
Wimbledon 75.5 64070
Winchester* 68.7 78884
Windsor 73.5 69132
Wirral South 81 59372
Wirral West 77 60908
Witney 76.7 73520
Woking 72.7 70053
Wokingham 75.7 66161
Wolverhampton North East 67.2 61642
Wolverhampton South East 64.2 54291
Wolverhampton South West 72.5 67482
Woodspring 78.5 69964
Worcester 74.6 69234
Worcestershire Mid 74.3 68381
Worcestershire West 76.2 64712
Workington 75.1 65766
Worsley 67.8 68978
Worthing East & Shoreham 72.9 70771
Worthing West 72.1 71329
Wrekin, The 76.6 59126
Wrexham 71.8 50741
Wycombe 71.1 73589
Wyre Forest 75.3 73063
Wythenshaw & Sale East 63.2 71986
Yeovil 72.9 74165
Ynys Mon 75.4 52952
York, City of 73.5 79383
Yorkshire East 70.5 69409

Source: Pippa Norris. The British Parliamentary Constituency Database, 1992-2001.