Figure 1: Official Turnout Rate in Canadian General Elections, 1945 to 2015

Figure 1: Official Turnout Rate in Canadian General Elections 1945 to 2015

The line graph shows the official turnout rate in Canadian general elections between 1945 and 2015. The percentage values of turnout for each election are as follows:

June 11, 1945, 75.3 percent
June 27, 1949, 73.8 percent
Aug. 10, 1953, 67.5 percent
June 10, 1957, 74.1 percent
March 31, 1958, 79.4 percent
June 18, 1962, 79.0 percent
April 8, 1963, 79.2 percent
Nov. 8, 1965, 74.8 percent
June 25, 1968, 75.7 percent
Oct. 30, 1972, 76.7 percent
July 8, 1974, 71.0 percent
May 22, 1979, 75.7 percent
Feb. 18, 1980, 69.3 percent
Sep. 4, 1984, 75.3 percent
Nov. 21, 1988, 75.3 percent
Oct. 25, 1993, 69.6 percent
June 2, 1997, 67.0 percent
Nov. 27, 2000, 64.1 percent
June 28, 2004, 60.9 percent
Jan. 23, 2006, 64.7 percent
Oct. 14, 2008, 58.8 percent
May 2, 2011, 61.1 percent
Oct. 19, 2015, 68.3 percent