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Electoral Register

Question for Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission

UIN 20304, tabled on 15 December 2015

To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, how many people in the UK were registered on a UK Parliamentary electoral register on 1 December (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013, (e) 2014 and (f) 2015.

Answered on

18 December 2015

The number of entries on UK Parliamentary registers for the years requested, are set out in the table below. Due to the implementation of individual electoral registration revised, registers were not published in December 2013 but in February and March 2014.

Register

UK Parliamentary register (including attainers)

December 2010

45,844,691

December 2011

46,107,152

December 2012

46,353,871

December 2013 (published Feb/Mar 2014)

46,139,940

December 2014

45,325,078

Figures for the December 2015 registers are not yet available and this data will be published as soon as possible after 1 February, once those areas that have had by-elections have published their registers.

Answered by

Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission