India vs Turkey: Universal right to vote in practice

India

in 2025

Turkey

in 2025

India rank

1st

Turkey rank

1st

Universal right to vote in practice over time

India
Turkey

How they compare

India currently reports 2 against 2 in Turkey, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 105 shared years of data; in 1921 it was Turkey ahead.

India ranks 1st and Turkey ranks 1st of 197 countries.

Individual pages

Universal right to vote in practice in India
Universal right to vote in practice in Turkey
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Universal right to vote in practice
Source: Lexical Index (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 198 places, 32,485 data points, 1789–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Indicates whether virtually all adult citizens have the right to vote in practice (score 2), only men have broad voting rights in practice (score 1), or there are no broad voting rights in practice (score 0).