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Parliamentary Question (Correction)

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Thursday 27th February 2014

(10 years, 8 months ago)

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The Electoral Commission informs me that the response to written question number 186084, which was printed on 10 February 2014, Official Report, columns 414-16W, contained an error. The question asked for the 50 wards with the greatest change in turnout between the 2005 and 2010 general elections. The original answer showed changes in turnout with plus signs where there should have been minus signs and vice versa. I regret any inconvenience caused as a result of this.

The correct response is shown below.

Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd): To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission, if he will list the 50 wards with the greatest change in turnout between the 2005 and 2010 general elections. [186084]

Reply

The Electoral Commission informs me that it does not hold this information at ward level. This is because Returning officers are not required to report data at ward level for parliamentary elections.

However, the table below shows the 50 constituencies with the greatest change in turnout between the 2005 and 2010 general elections (note a positive percentage indicates an increase in turnout in 2010, a negative indicates a decrease).

Constituency (2010 names)

Turnout 2005

(Inc votes rejected at count)

Turnout 2010

( Inc votes rejected at count)

Percentage point change in turnout 2001-101

Staffordshire South2

68.4

37.7

-30.6

Poplar & Limehouse

63.3

46.1

-17.2

Thirsk & Malton3

50.0

65.7

15.6

Tyneside North

59.9

46.2

-13.7

Hackney North & Stoke Newington

63.3

50.6

-12.7

Feltham & Heston

60.3

47.8

-12.5

Penistone & Stocksbridge

68.0

55.6

-12.4

Tyrone West

61.5

73.5

12.0

Cambridgeshire North East

71.2

59.3

-11.9

Barking

61.7

49.9

-11.9

Tottenham

59.6

48.0

-11.6

Brentford & Isleworth

64.7

53.2

-11.5

Islington North

65.6

54.2

-11.4

Streatham

63.1

51.8

-11.4

Liverpool Riverside

52.3

40.9

-11.3

Greenwich & Woolwich

63.2

51.9

-11.3

Sheffield Hallam

74.5

63.5

-11.0

Liverpool Walton

55.1

44.1

-11.0

Hammersmith

65.9

54.9

-10.9

Luton South

64.9

54.0

-10.9

Islington South & Finsbury

64.6

53.8

-10.8

Vauxhall

58.1

47.3

-10.8

Lewisham Deptford

62.0

51.3

-10.6

Bethnal Green & Bow

63.3

52.7

-10.6

Newry And Armagh

60.9

71.5

10.6

Midlothian

64.0

53.5

-10.5

Sefton Central

72.0

61.5

-10.5

Bradford West

65.3

55.0

-10.4

Bolton North East

65.0

54.7

-10.3

Hull West & Hessle

55.1

44.9

-10.2

Holborn & St. Pancras

63.5

53.3

-10.2

Ulster Mid

63.7

73.9

10.2

Liverpool Wavertree

60.8

50.7

-10.1

Esher & Walton

72.6

62.5

-10.1

Belfast West

54.9

64.8

9.9

Lewisham East

63.6

53.8

-9.8

Leyton & Wanstead

63.6

53.8

-9.8

Nottingham South

60.6

50.8

-9.7

Ealing Central & Acton

67.5

57.9

-9.6

Weaver Vale

65.5

56.0

-9.5

Hampshire North East

73.5

64.1

-9.4

Dulwich & West Norwood

66.5

57.1

-9.4

Liverpool West Derby

57.0

47.7

-9.3

Tooting

68.7

59.5

-9.2

Newcastle Upon Tyne Central

56.6

47.4

-9.2

Westminster North

59.8

50.7

-9.1

Walthamstow

63.9

54.8

-9.1

Northamptonshire South

73.4

64.4

-9.0

Hackney South & Shoreditch

59.4

50.5

-9.0

Salford & Eccles

55.2

46.4

-8.8

1Professors Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher at the Elections Centre, Plymouth University, collected and collated these data from Returning officers on the Commission’s behalf.

22005 election postponed and held on 23 June.

32010 election postponed and held on 27 May.



These data come from an analysis provided to the Commission by the University of Plymouth. It should be noted that because of changes to constituency boundaries and names between the 2005 and 2010 general elections, direct comparisons cannot always be made. Some of these figures may therefore only give an indication of what the levels of turnout might have been had the 2010 constituency boundaries been in use at the 2005 general election.