Do most viewers (who watch everyday) vote?
If so how much does it cost and how much does the normal voter spend?

Very few viewers vote. No statistics are revealed by C5 so it's guess work, at this stage I think a few thousand votes is all they will get. I used to vote most weeks but C5 refuse to give the viewers that want it 24/7 live feed, for that reason I don't vote.

It costs about 50p to vote.

I'm sure there are some viewers that vote multiple times but as I say very few viewers now bother.

This post sums it up nicely re those who vote . Only a tiny percentage .

When BB first started in this country you could go online and see what percentage of votes the HMs had received IN REAL TIME so that you could guage if your call would alter anything. They stopped doing that almost immediately but I have a feeling it's something that should be reintroduced if they want viewers to vote.

Wow...it would be really cool if you could see the voting percentage updated in real time.
Thanks for the replies.
I wonder if the celeb version gets more votes because they have a built in fan base.

I would say it's more than a few thousand. If that were the case, it would be taken advantage of through betting syndicates.

Bring back Facebook voting

I've watched every uk series since the beginning and have only ever voted probably less than 10 times and that was in the first few years.

It's a guess, this is the second eviction and let's face it who would save any of the h/m nominated.

A final might can a few hundred thousand votes.

On the syndicates Helen, who would have voted for that to win, a syndicate. Besides the odds are never that good.

It seems the propensity to vote is even lower among DS members than other viewers too. Or at least it does judging by the occassional 'Do you vote?' polls.

I have no idea what the voting numbers would be. I can only speka personally and say I have only voted twice in all these years and both times were in CBB series; Once for Shilpa Shetty and once for Julian Cleary.

I've only ever voted once (Anthony to win - for my shame - lol!)

Think voting numbers are in the 10s of thousands.

It depends really. People are under the the impression that C5 voting figures are very low, sure, they are compared to BB C4 times, but they are not that low.

For example, BB15 final:

The series was controversially won by Helen Wood, who won the £100,000 prize fund beating bookies' favourite Ashleigh Coyle by a margin of 4,631 votes.[3][4] Wood became the first woman to win the competition since the show's inception on Channel 5. It was then revealed that just 1.2% of the vote, separated Helen and Ashleigh, making it one of the closest results in Big Brother history.[5] This was the first series of Big Brother UK where both the runner-up and the winner were women.

This would determine that if 1.2% difference is 4,631, then ~450,000 voted in the final, and that is quite higher than people expect. I always assumed it was in the tens of thousands for evictions and around 100,000 for finals on Channel 5.

Can only assume that CBB must be higher. On Twitter (not reliable) there was a tweet saying that 1.3m voted in the CBB13 final.

Wasn't it like 6 million votes for Brian Rowling to win bb2? How times have changed!

Very few people vote now. I suppose a few core vioters would vote several times.
At one time, when it hadn't yet been bu99ered by the wannabes' and infantile producers, it was the biggest show of the Summer. Millions of viewers and millions of votes cast.

And a lot of 50 pences!

7m... 2.9m for Helen and 4.1m for Brian.

Nadia alone got 3.9m compared to the other 3.

But still it's quite alarming that half a million voted during BB15 final.

Voting is down everywhere. 8m people voted during X factor 3 and 5 final but Sam Bailey only got a million votes when she won 2 years back.

Also I heard from somewhere that Arrons eviction in BB13 was huge and someone quoted that it got BB5 eviction type numbers (1m-1.5m) I really really doubt that but apparently it still stands as highest voted civilian BB on C5 eviction. But that is probably false.

Italian BB had a record breaking amount in the series just gone with 4m voting for an eviction between Lydia and Federica. The presenter even mentioned it to the hms when she read the result (funny as the series averages 3.5m).

Think it just depends on who's up. For example Grant vs James I'm sure was a low figure one...but this week's one would most likely get more votes

Well more really. Unless I have misunderstood you have deftly calculated the number of votes cast for Helen and Ashleigh from the available information abouit BB15. But before the lines reopened fort the last time there would have also been votes cast for Christopher, Chris, Ash and Pav.

Hmm, call me a cynic but I would propose that the producers take no notice of the votes. They evict whomever they want to go

Ah yes the good old days!!! Real entertainment....I laughed so much that year.

I voted every year I am ashamed to say until Helen Wood. The fixing and relationships behind the scenes were too obvious for me. Yes every year it's cried fix but that year there was evidence to back it up so I don't waste my money anymore.

Ah yes I forgot the lines reopened!

So lets say the other 4 shared 150,000 between them, that would have been 600,000+ votes for the final.

I think you might be right there.

I've never voted but I've read before that after Nikki was let back in after having been evicted voting went down quite a lot.

So they can have access to my FB profile.........erm no.