Postal Votes Figures for General Election 2019 by party

The request was refused by Electoral Commission.

Dear Electoral Commission,

Question:

- Total number of postal ballots used to vote?
- How much of an increase is it from 2017?
- What are key drivers for this increase?
- What is the breakdown by party & constituency?
- Why is there no information available?
- How did Dominic Raab & Laura Kuenesberg access this pre-election?
- Have they broken any laws of ‘purdah’?

Yours faithfully,

Gaurang Morjaria
(A concerned citizen)

FOI, Electoral Commission

Dear Gaurang Morjaria,
 
Thank you for your request under the Freedom of Information Act received
by the Commission on 23 December 2019, concerning:
 
- Total number of postal ballots used to vote?
- How much of an increase is it from 2017?
- What are key drivers for this increase? 
- What is the breakdown by party & constituency?
- Why is there no information available?
- How did Dominic Raab & Laura Kuenesberg access this pre-election?
- Have they broken any laws of ‘purdah’?
 
The following questions we do not hold the information that you have
requested.
 
- Total number of postal ballots used to vote?
- How much of an increase is it from 2017?
- What are key drivers for this increase? 
- What is the breakdown by party & constituency?
- Why is there no information available?
 
The Electoral Commission does provide advice and guidance to Electoral
Administrators for each poll and we do collect statistics and information
about the running of the polls after the event.  This includes information
about postal votes, number of votes cast and information about how the
election was run from Local Authorities.  We are currently undertaking
this data collection exercise. 
 
The Electoral Commission will use the information gathered from the Local
Authorities to produce a public report on the 2019 UK General Election and
this will be made available on our website in the first half of 2020.   We
do not yet have a specific date of publication available.  Previous
published reports can be found on our website, click on the link to launch
([1]https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/w...
 
You also asked:
 
- How did Dominic Raab & Laura Kuenesberg access this pre-election?
- Have they broken any laws of ‘purdah’?
 
These questions do not fall within the scope of Freedom of Information
requests, which are requests for information held by the public body.  
Your questions ask for opinion and information outside of the remit of the
Electoral Commission.    Any offences under the Representation of the
People Act reported to the Commission would be passed to the Police for
investigation.
 
For further information about writing requests to pubic bodies please see
the [2]ICO Guidance online.
 
We aim to be a transparent organisation but in some instances we are
unable to satisfy requests.
 
Yours sincerely,
 
Ashley Lardner
Information, Knowledge and Systems Manager
[3][Electoral Commission request email]
 
 
 
 

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