Glasgow and Scotland

Voter turnout at Scottish Parliament elections, Glasgow and Scotland, 1999-2021

Voter turnout at elections for the Scottish Parliament over the period 1999-2021 has been consistently lower in Glasgow than in Scotland as a whole.

However, voter turnout rose across Scotland in 2016 and again in 2021. There has been a larger proportionate increase in voter turnout in Glasgow, resulting in the gap in turnout between Scotland and Glasgow narrowing.

Voter turnout at UK General elections, Glasgow and Scotland, 1997-2019

Voter turnout across the UK dropped sharply in 2001 compared to 1997, but turnout has steadily recovered since. It is notable that at the 2015 General Election, voter turnout in Scotland rose to exceed that in the UK as a whole. It dropped below the UK average again in 2017, and is now close to the UK average of 68%.