How to say "turnout" in Japanese

• 出足であしCommon
  nounThe attendance sense: the number of people who turn out for an event or meeting, with a nuance of how attendance gets under way. A slow or brisk early response is described with this word.
• 人出ひとでCommon
  nounThe crowd sense: how many people have come out, as on a festival day or in a busy shopping district; news reports of large or small crowds use this word.
  大勢おおぜいの人出ひとでですよ。↗

  We're filled to the rafters.
• 待避線たいひせんCommon
  nounStrictly the railway sense: a siding on which one train waits to let another pass. It has nothing to do with attendance, so it is never the word for a turnout of people.

For people, 出足 captures how attendance at an event gets under way, while 人出 counts the crowd out on the streets; 待避線 is only the railway sense, a siding where trains wait to let others pass.

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• 出足であしturnout (of people)
• 人出ひとでcrowd
• 待避線たいひせんsiding
• 待避所たいひじょturnout (on a highway)
• 分岐器ぶんききrailroad switch
• 賑わいにぎわいprosperity