Electoral Register
(asked on 22nd July 2019) - View Source
Question
To ask the hon. Member for Houghton and Sunderland South, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, which local authority had the biggest percentage (a) increase and (b) decrease in electoral registration in each year since 2010.
The table below sets out the largest increases and decreases in the registered local government electorate, by local authority, from 1 December of one year to 1 December of the following year. For example, the 2010 row shows the change in the number of register entries between 1 December 2009 and 1 December 2010.
Year | Largest % increase | Largest % decrease |
2010 | Shepway (8.9%) | Richmondshire (-7.2%) |
2011 | Aberdeen (4.9%) | Clackmannanshire (-4.6%) |
2012 | Clackmannanshire (4.3%) | Tower Hamlets (-6%) |
2013 | Tower Hamlets (11.3%) | Taunton Deane (-8.8%) |
2014 | Wellingborough (6.5%) | Ceredigion (-12.7%) |
2015 | East Devon (5.2%) | Cambridge (-11.8%) |
2016 | Colchester (9%) | Manchester (-3.8%) |
2017 | Tower Hamlets (12%) | Hyndburn (-6%) |
2018 | Barking & Dagenham (4.5%) | Isles of Scilly (-7.1%) |