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VOTING IN 2001 UK PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS This chart compares the differences in the amount of votes between 1983 and 2001 at different ranges of age, in the UK. In 2001 we can see that the older people is getting, the higher is the percentage of the votes. Young people are who vote less, there is more than a 40% of people between 18-34 allowed to the vote who don’t exercise their right; However older people vote more, with percentages of turnout from 70% in people older than 35, until people older than 65 who arrive to a 80% of turnout. Similar occurs in 1983, until range of ages between 55-64 years, but then there is a drop in the number of votes, in people older than 65. That range of age is the one that has a higher turnout in 2001 than in 1983. In the rest of the cases people always had voted more in 1983. In conclusion, we can say that in general (with some exceptions) older people have voted more in both years, and that the turnout has fallen in 2001 in the UK.