More than 90,000 additional 18-24 year olds will be exercising their democratic right to smash a sausage sandwich vote in the Federal election this year, according to new figures from the Australian Electoral Commission.

Before enrolments closed on May 23, only 51 per cent of 18 year-olds and 76 per cent of 19-year-olds were enrolled to vote.

But those numbers have now jumped: 71 per cent of 18-year-olds and 83 per cent of 19-year-olds are on the electoral roll, according to the AEC.

Good job!

All up, there’s still more 18-24 year olds missing from the electoral roll than any other age group in Australia.

There’s 254,000 in that age group who won’t be heading to the polls on July 2. That’s a LOT of votes.

According to analysis by non-partisan group Y Vote last month, young people missing from the electoral roll could have the power to swing up to 10 marginal seats in the election.

Founder and CEO of Y Vote, Skye Riggs, told Hack last month that young voters could wield a huge amount of political power at the polls.

“One of the things that we see with young people is that feel like we don’t see our views being represented, and then we don’t vote, and it becomes this negative cycle. But young people don’t realise that their vote could literally swing the outcome in different seats,” she said.

“If young people were voting, we’re more likely to see all of the candidates across the spectrum representing our views.”

Today’s figures show a positive increase toward closing the gap of missing enrolments. In the last Federal election in 2013, around 400,000 18-24 year olds weren’t enrolled to vote.

Check out the enrolment break down below.