Organisers have partly blamed “heavy downpours” for a big decline in crowd numbers attending this year’s Perth Royal Show.

Figures released on Monday reveal the number of people through the turnstile for one of Perth’s biggest events dropped more than 30 per cent from last year’s show.

The Royal Agricultural Society of WA said around 300,000 people attended the show — down from 438,636 last year.

The attendance level is one of the lowest recorded in the past decade, only marginally higher than 2017, when visitor numbers dipped to 279,000.

RASWA chief executive Robyn Sermon said organisers had expected attendance would be lower this year, after the government withdrew generous ticket subsidies.

”We anticipated a lower attendance this year following last year’s record-breaking ‘kids fre

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