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Overall turnoutEstimation of Voter Turnout by Age Group and Gender at the 2021 General Election

Turnout average since maximums of previous two elections

Figure 2: Voter Turnout Based on Registered Electors and Eligible Electors in the Population, General Elections 2004 to 2021

Figure 2: Voter Turnout Based on Registered Electors and Eligible Electors in the Population, General Elections 2004 to 2021

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
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%).

Figure 3: Counts of Registered Electors and Eligible Electors in the Population, General Elections 2004 to 2021

Figure 3: Counts of Registered Electors and Eligible Electors in the Population, General Elections 2004 to 2021

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
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.