The Voter Turnout Database is the best resource for a wide array of statistics on voter turnout from around the world. It contains the most comprehensive global collection of voter turnout statistics from presidential and parliamentary elections since 1945. Always growing, the database also includes European Parliament elections, as presented by country using both the number of registered voters and voting age population as indicators, and in some cases the data includes statistics on spoilt ballot rate.

Dataset type
Time-Series
Dataset level
Country

Citation

When using this dataset, please cite as:

• The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance. (2024). Voter turnout database. https://www.idea.int/data-tools/data/voter-turnout

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EU Parliamentary Election: Compulsory Voting

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EU Parliamentary Election: Voter Turnout

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Parliamentary Election: Compulsory Voting

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1 represents compulsory voting 0 represents non compulsory voting

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Parliamentary Election: Voter Turnout

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Presidential Election: Compulsory Voting

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1 represents compulsory voting 0 represents non compulsory voting

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Presidential Election: Voter Turnout

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