British Election turnout - one of the lowest: Special case or common cause?

[kvaria@uk.cgeyc.com]

Here are the statistics from the last 22 elections ( I read them off a
graph so they may be +/-  0.5% !). As many of you know, the newspapers
"splashed" the low turnout (59%)headline, to show the fact that voters had
becoming apathetic towards the elections and politicians in general. Was
their view justified?

71   71   75   74   75   71   72   84    83   78   79   78   77   72   79   73   76   73   75   78   71   59


I calculated the  UCL to be 82 and the LCL to be 6, using XmR calculation,
so it looks like the headline was justified.

Any thoughts?

Ket