Election Turnout

[Fittster]

Turnout in General Election voting has increased this year after a high-profile election campaign, leaving hundreds of people unable to vote as polling stations struggled to cope with demand.

After results in 192 of the UK's 650 constituencies had been announced, national turnout stood at 64.6%, up from 61.4% in 2005 and 59.4% in 2001.

Turnout still looked set to be significantly lower than in 1997, when 71.4% of the electorate voted as Labour were swept to power with a landslide victory.

[Carfiend]

Because the great unwashed can't vote by pressing the red button they won't bother.

[Evangelion]

Fittster said:

... Labour were swept to power with a landslide victory.

Don't forget the definition of a landslide is everything going rapidly downhill.