Total Votes Cast

Year	Total Votes Cast
08 Jan 1833	735,396
06 Feb 1835	550,808
18 Aug 1837	730,932
22 Jul 1841	543,949
26 Aug 1847	448,038
31 Jul 1852	614,028
24 Apr 1857	571,580
18 May 1859	472,635
24 Jul 1865	779,898
07 Dec 1868	2,235,545
17 Feb 1874	2,241,267
27 Apr 1880	3,101,224
18 Dec 1885	4,163,025
27 Jul 1886	2,767,103
26 Jul 1892	4,205,971
07 Aug 1895	3,602,329
24 Oct 1900	3,365,591
08 Feb 1906	5,441,068
10 Feb 1910	6,425,358
19 Dec 1910	5,010,801
14 Dec 1918	9,737,727
15 Nov 1922	14,184,259
06 Dec 1923	14,302,377
29 Oct 1924	16,069,919
30 May 1929	22,138,312
27 Oct 1931	21,292,224
14 Nov 1935	21,544,499
05 Jul 1945	24,366,874
23 Feb 1950	28,232,102
25 Oct 1951	28,127,146
26 May 1955	26,075,514
08 Oct 1959	27,264,621
15 Oct 1964	26,963,114
31 Mar 1966	26,584,807
18 Jun 1970	27,566,441
28 Feb 1974	30,618,072
10 Oct 1974	28,485,979
03 May 1979	30,531,972
09 Jun 1983	29,905,775
11 Jun 1987	31,802,257
09 Apr 1992	32,828,979
01 May 1997	30,495,522
07 Jun 2001	25,557,009
05 May 2005	26,430,908
06 May 2010	29,013,733
07 May 2015	29,979,422

Date:	Source:
1833 - 1880	F.W.S. Craig (ed.), British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (London: The Macmillan Press Ltd, 1977) Within copyright. Permission granted to project.
1885 - 1910	F.W.S. Craig (ed.), British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918 (London: The Macmillan Press Ltd, 1974) Within copyright. Permission granted to project.
1918 - 1945	F.W.S. Craig (ed.), British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949 (Glasgow: Political Reference Publications, 1969) Within copyright. Permission granted to project.
1950 - 1970	F.W.S. Craig (ed.), British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-1970 (Chichester: Political Reference Publications, 1971) Within copyright. Permission granted to project.
1974 - 1992	Kimber, Political Science Resources
1997 - 2005	House of Commons Library, House of Commons Library Research Papers ,
2010 - 2015	The Electoral Commission, The Electoral Commission

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