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With apologies for any cross posting.
Today the Centre for Ageing and Demography at the Office for National Statistics have released Electoral Statistics, UK: 2019
Main points
- The total number of UK Parliamentary electoral registrations increased by 1,299,100 (2.8%) between December 2018 and December 2019, compared with a decrease of 0.8% in the previous year.
- The number of Parliamentary and local government electoral registrations increased across all four countries of the UK.
- In December 2019, there were 47,074,800 Parliamentary electoral registrations and 49,153,700 local government electoral registrations.
- Electoral registrations increased in 609 of the 650 UK Parliamentary constituencies, with the largest increases often in areas with large student populations.
- Cardiff Central in Wales had the highest growth in the number of Parliamentary electors in the year to December 2019 while Scunthorpe in Yorkshire and The Humber saw the largest decrease.
Statistician's comment
"The number of electoral registrations in December 2019 was the highest ever seen, surpassing the previous peak of December 2012. The rise is partly a reflection of a busy year of elections with local government, mayoral and European elections, and a rise in the number of eligible voters between 2018 and 2019. Of course it culminated in the December 2019 General Election, the first in that month since 1923, and captures the uplift in electoral registrations that is to be expected."
Neil Park, Centre for Ageing and Demography, Office for National Statistics
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