Gloria De Piero – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gloria De Piero on 2016-01-19.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people who voted in the 2015 General Election are not on the latest electoral register.

John Penrose

The electoral registers used for the 2015 General Election contained over 400,000 more entries than the last registers published prior to the introduction of Individual Electoral Registration (IER). As such, suggestions that IER would lead to a decline in registration levels were simply incorrect.

While data is not available on the number of non-IER registered electors who voted at the 2015 General Election, the Electoral Commission found 96% of the entries on the electoral register in May 2015 were already registered under IER.

The Electoral Commission is planning to publish a report in February/March 2016 on the state of the December 2015 registers. This is expected to include data on the number of register entries and on the number of remaining non-IER registered entries removed in December.