The phrase "actual turnout" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the real or final number of participants or voters in an event, such as an election or meeting.
Example: "The actual turnout for the election was much higher than anticipated, leading to a surprising outcome."
Alternatives: "real turnout" or "final turnout".
When Facebook ventured into another civic endeavor encouraging people to vote on Election Day in 2010 it found, after tracking state records on who actually voted and carefully matching identities, that the effort boosted actual turnout by at least 340,000 votes (see "How Facebook Drove Voters to the Polls") and possibly many more.
Campaigners expect actual turnout to be still lower.
By examining public voter rolls, the researchers were able to compare actual turnout among the groups.
Actual turnout has typically trailed the poll's findings by "the high single digits," Della Volpe said.
In a few elections, determining actual turnout, given the number of provisional and contested ballots, might take days or weeks, potentially throwing election outcomes into limbo.
Campaigners expect actual turnout to be still lower.Among the professional political classes, constitutional activism has been spurred by a growing sense that FPTP is unfair.
It's believed the actual voter turnout hovered around the 40% and not to mention, there was a record breaking early voting turnout as well.
Actual voter turnout in the 2010 elections?
Despite all the enthusiasm for Sanders in 2016, actual voter turnout among Millennials in the US election was a dismal 50%.
Taking these points together, if the number of seats at stake for each country could be taken up only in proportion to the actual voter turnout, then the apathy problem might be dramatically overcome.
The novelty of Taiwan's break from authoritarianism appears to be wearing off, although actual voter turnout is expected to be much higher than we are used to in the U.S. Most pollsters here predict more than 75% of registered voters will vote.
