Glasgow & Scotland trends

Voter turnout at Scottish Parliament elections, Glasgow and Scotland, 1999-2021
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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 2011. There has been a larger proportionate increase in voter turnout in Glasgow, resulting in the gap in turnout between Scotland and Glasgow narrowing.  

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See Politics in the Mindset domain for related information.