Early signs are that as many as 500,000 – 750,000 people rushed to join the electoral register just before the registration deadline earlier this week – hopefully reflecting a surge in interest in politics, particularly from younger people.
The evidence though is rather thin at the moment, so a simple request – check with your council how many people have joined the register in the latest rolling register update and post the answer below.
(If you’re an agent or campaign manager, remember that you can ask to get these names and addresses – which if you are doing any addressed election material is well worth doing so that you don’t leave out people who have shown an interest in democracy.)
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(If you’re an agent or campaign manager, remember that you can ask to get these names and addresses – which if you are doing any addressed election material is well worth doing so that you don’t leave out people who have shown an interest in democracy.)
Emailed my three councils on Tuesday to ask them to send them as soon as they were ready.
Haven’t had a reply from any of them yet!
Suspect they are a tad busy 😉
My 4 constituencies, average of 750 each.
Who do I contact at my council? And which one is responsible for the register: my county or my borough?
The answer from Mid Suffolk District Council is ‘several hundred’ – 600 was thought to be reasonable by an officer I spoke to, split between parts of two constituencies – Bury St Edmunds and Central Suffolk & Ipswich North.
Milton Keynes Council reports 1500 registrations covering two parliamentary constituencies. The great majority of these came in after the first Leaders Debate.
MK Democratic Services will be issuing agents with updates to the register asap.
Huntingdon now confirmed, 745 and S Cambs 820.
West Dorset had 946 additions to the register between 1 April and 20 April. Any advance on 946?
According to the Head of Electoral Services, in Bristol the figure was 13,000 new voters, an extra 3% to bring the total registration figure up to 94%.. The biggest upsurge was after the first debate.
Senior Electoral Services Officer of Derby City Council confirmed 3804 additions to the register in the
latest roll over.
Lewisham 2.5 constituencies = 2000!
563 in Burnley – 150 in Daneshouse
Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney: Almost 1800, and we are one of the smallest constituencies
The returning officer tell me that the borough of Kingston has over 2,000 new voter registrations since the start of the month – many in the past week. That covers the whole of Kingston and Surbiton Constituency and the four north Kingston wards that form part of Richmond Park. Full registration details will be published on Weds 28th.