Young people are even less likely to vote than any other age group.
One survey put it at 65 percent. Citizen audit conducted by Paul Whiteley, with professors Patrick Seyd and Charles Pattie, paid for by the UK Economic and Social Research Council and based on a sample of 3000 adults. Young people are less likely even to be registered to vote than any other age group. Forty percent of young people are not registered, against eight percent of the general populace. Young people are less likely to vote than any other age group.