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Voter turnout in Zimbabwe

67.37

% of registered voters, 2023

Moderate trust, 60 of 100 Only one source (IDEA), so it cannot be checked against another.

Each source by year: % of registered voters
025507510019801990200020102023
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YearIDEA Voter Turnout Database
197963.89
199530.81
200048.33
200547.66
200840.81
201357.78
201883.1
202367.37

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Zimbabwe among 200 countries

88 have a higher figure and 111 a lower one. Definitions differ between countries, and their years run from 1984 to 2026.

Lowest: Tunisia, 11.22Highest: Somalia, 99.86
What this number counts
Counts
Votes cast as a share of registered voters at the latest national parliamentary election. Lower house where parliament has two chambers. Presidential elections are not included.
Where
Zimbabwe
When
Election year 2023; series shows election years only (the latest election)

The figure from IDEA, the only source that counts here.

Where the number comes from (1 source)
SourceFigure and yearDefinitionQualityCounts for
IDEA Voter Turnout DatabaseInternational IDEA · Administrative recordsRetrieved 2026-11-02
67.372023
Total vote, including invalid and blank votes, divided by registered voters, as defined in IDEA's codebook.

Where parliament has two chambers the database covers only the lower house. Presidential elections are on a separate sheet and are not included. With two rounds in one election this is the round IPU's election record dates the election by, else the first round. The rounds are identified from IPU's records.

Raw file: idea-export.xlsx, sheet Parliamentary, Zimbabwe, row dated 2023-08-23.

4 of 5 checks
  • Yes: Method and definitions published. Codebook published with definitions of every variable and the criteria for including an election.
  • Yes: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. The codebook names national electoral bodies and statistical bureaus as primary sources; a small number of cases come from secondary sources.
  • Yes: Full count or representative sample. Votes and rolls are full counts, not samples.
  • Yes: Raw data downloadable. A full xlsx export is public, with no form or account.
  • No: No known break or quality problem. The codebook warns that rolls can be inaccurate. In the file 2 rows exceed 100%, and in 11 rows the stated turnout is more than a point off Total vote divided by Registration. 1545 of 2520 rows carry the year only.
100%

Better and more direct sources count for more. A source that only copies another does not count.

  • IDEA100%
How the trust score was worked out
Quality32 / 40

How well the sources are made

Agreement15 / 30

Unknown with one source, so set to half

Independence6 / 20

How many separate ways the number was measured

Freshness7 / 10

How recent the newest data is

How the score works

Who reports it, and since when

Which kinds of source measure this number, which years each one published, and where the reporting stops or has holes.

  • Single source: nothing to check it against
  • IDEA: no figure here for 37 years between 1979 and 2023
Years each source has a figure here
'99'00'05'10'15'20'23IDEA

figure no figure here, inside its range no later figure recorded change

Why the numbers differ
  • IDEA's codebook names national electoral bodies as its primary sources and IPU's records cite them too, so for one election IPU is shown as a copy of IDEA and not counted, whether or not the figures match. A counted IPU line means an election only IPU has a figure for. For 378 elections in both, 216 show the same figures, 106 differ by under a point and 56 by a point or more; each row's note gives both counts for its latest election. At the latest election the gap is five points or more in: Azerbaijan, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Namibia, Niger, South Africa. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
  • The denominator is the roll, and rolls differ. IDEA's codebook says registration is voluntary or often inaccurate in many countries, and that a roll can still hold people who have died or left. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
  • Compulsory voting affects comparison. Where IDEA's file marks the latest election as compulsory the median is 75.08% across 26 countries, against 63.53% across 173 where it does not. This is a plain split, with no adjustment for anything else. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
  • Some parliamentary rows match the presidential row for the same year: 104 rows in IDEA's file show the identical turnout on both sheets. The United States has 3: 2016, 2020, 2024. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
Common mistakes
  • Reading this as a share of all adults. Turnout of the voting-age population uses an estimate of people of voting age as the base, and IDEA's codebook warns it can differ greatly from registered voters. It is a different number and is kept off this page. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
  • Taking high turnout as a statement about whether an election was free or fair. This number counts ballots and says nothing about that.
  • Comparing a presidential election's turnout with these figures. Presidential elections are a separate sheet in IDEA's file and are not included here. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
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Cite as: RealStats, “Voter turnout in Zimbabwe”, updated 2026-11-02, with the original sources listed on the page.

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