Overall turnout – Estimation of Voter Turnout by Age Group and Gender at the 2021 General Election
Turnout average since maximums of previous two elections
Text version of "Figure 2: Voter Turnout Based on Registered Electors and Eligible Electors in the Population, General Elections 2004 to 2021"
Election | Eligible population | Registered electors |
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38th GE, 2004 | 58.5% | 60.9% |
39th GE, 2006 | 62.8% | 64.7% |
40th GE, 2008 | 56.5% | 58.8% |
41st GE, 2011 | 58.5% | 61.1% |
42nd GE, 2015 | 66.1% | 68.3% |
43rd GE, 2019 | 67.0% | 67.0% |
44th GE, 2021 | 62.6% | 62.2% |
Replacing the number of registered electors with an estimated electoral population in the denominator of the turnout measure does not change the observed trend in turnout since 2004, as shown in Figure 2. Using this alternative measure, participation still reached an all-time low in 2008, when 56.5% of the voting population voted. The 2021 election's participation rate among eligible electors (62.2%) is the 4th most participated election in the 2004-2021 period. The most participated election in this period is the 2019 election (67.0%).
Text version of "Figure 3: Counts of Registered Electors and Eligible Electors in the Population, General Elections 2004 to 2021"
Election | Eligible population | Registered electors |
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38th GE, 2004 | 23,309,360 | 22,378,669 |
39th GE, 2006 | 23,736,542 | 23,054,615 |
40th GE, 2008 | 24,661,345 | 23,677,639 |
41st GE, 2011 | 25,337,735 | 24,257,592 |
42nd GE, 2015 | 26,808,942 | 25,939,742 |
43rd GE, 2019 | 27,374,074 | 27,373,058 |
44th GE, 2021 | 27,647,165 | 27,509,496 |
Figure 3 shows the counts of registered and eligible electors for all general elections since 2004. Since 2019, the two numbers are very close due to the higher coverage achieved by the National Register of Electors.