Liberal Democrat leadership elections: electorate and turnout
To go alongside the data on Liberal Democrat party membership totals, here are the electorate, votes and turnout totals for party leadership elections.
| Leadership contest | Electorate | Votes cast | Turnout |
| 1988 | 80,104 | 57,790 valid 57,603 total | 72.1%* |
| 1999 | 82,827 | 51.006 valid | 61.6% |
| 2006 | 72,064 | 52,036 valid | 72.2% |
| 2007 | 64,728 | 41,465 valid | 64.1% |
| 2015 | 60,500 | 33,897 valid 33,963 total | 56.1%* |
| 2017 | 103,300 | Uncontested | n/a |
| 2019 | 106,075 | 76,018 valid 76,429 total | 72.1%* |
| 2020 | 117,924 | 67,320 valid 67,899 total | 57.6% |
* Includes spoiled and abstained ballots in turnout calculation.
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