Chris Ruane – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Ruane on 2014-06-26.
To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission, how many and what proportion of people were deleted from the electoral register after the second year of non-response to electoral canvass in the 10 local authorities with the (a) greatest and (b) smallest decreases; and what parliamentary constituencies are covered by such local authorities.
Mr Gary Streeter
The Electoral Commission informs me that the requested data is presented in the table below. This data is for Great Britain and therefore excludes Northern Ireland.
Local authority |
Number of deletions (from Nov 2013 register) following second year of non-response |
Deletions (from Nov 2013 register) following second year of non-response (% of register) |
Decrease (Dec 2012 to Feb/March 2014) |
Leeds |
28,190 |
5.0 |
-24177 |
Birmingham |
0 |
0.0 |
-20243 |
Cornwall |
16541 |
3.9 |
-13273 |
Newham |
2491 |
1.2 |
-13183 |
Northampton |
2,659 |
1.7 |
-11851 |
Shropshire |
3,360 |
1.4 |
-11551 |
Barnet |
2422 |
1.0 |
-11255 |
Maidstone |
10498 |
8.7 |
-9257 |
Durham |
1191 |
0.3 |
-6683 |
Taunton Deane |
– |
– |
-7578 |
Adur |
370 |
0.8 |
-109 |
Staffordshire Moorlands |
195 |
0.2 |
-99 |
North West Leicestershire |
20 |
0.0 |
-97 |
Lewes |
569 |
0.7 |
-82 |
Cotswold |
105 |
0.2 |
-80 |
Oadby and Wigston |
45 |
0.1 |
-73 |
Newcastle-Under-Lyme |
885 |
0.9 |
-72 |
Shetland Islands |
17 |
0.1 |
-48 |
Surrey Heath |
602 |
0.9 |
-36 |
Tunbridge Wells |
0 |
0.0 |
-22 |
The following constituencies are covered by these areas:
East Ham
West Ham
Elmet and Rothwell
Leeds Central
Leeds East
Leeds North East
Leeds North West
Leeds West
Morley and Outwood
Pudsey
Birmingham Edgbaston
Birmingham, Erdington
Birmingham, Hall Green
Birmingham, Hodge Hill
Birmingham, Ladywood
Birmingham Northfield
Birmingham, Perry Barr
Birmingham Selly Oak
Birmingham, Yardley
Sutton Coldfield
Camborne and Redruth
North Cornwall
South East Cornwall
St Ives (includes the Isles of Scilly)
Truro and Falmouth
Northampton North
Northampton South
South Northamptonshire
Ludlow
North Shropshire
Shrewsbury and Atcham
The Wrekin
Chipping Barnet
Finchley and Golders Green
Hendon
Faversham and Mid Kent
Maidstone and The Weald
Taunton Deane
Bishop Auckland
City of Durham
Easington
North Durham
North West Durham
Sedgefield
East Worthing and Shoreham
Staffordshire Moorlands
Stone
North West Leicestershire
Brighton, Kemptown
Lewes
The Cotswolds
Harborough
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Staffordshire Moorlands
Stoke-on-Trent North
Stone
Orkney and Shetland
Surrey Heath
Maidstone and The Weald
Tunbridge Wells