Eligible voters in the UK 2016

Response to this request is long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, Electoral Commission should have responded by now (details). You can complain by requesting an internal review.

GABRIELLA PRESTON

Dear Electoral Commission,

How many people are eligible to vote in the UK?

Yours faithfully,

GABRIELLA PRESTON

FOI, Electoral Commission

Dear Gabriella Preston,

Thank you for your enquiry under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

This information is publically available on the Commissions website, at the following address:

http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/i-...

Yours sincerely,

Paul O’Malley
Information Adviser (Records Management)
The Electoral Commission
3 Bunhill Row
London EC1Y 8YZ
Tel: 020 7271 0554
Fax: 020 7271 0665
www.electoralcommission.org.uk
www.aboutmyvote.co.uk

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GABRIELLA PRESTON

Dear FOI,

You define eligible as 'eligible and registered'; do you have an estimate for how many eligible people there are?

I think this is very misleading as everyone I know thinks 'turnout' refers to the proportion of people who are entitled to a vote who voted, not the proportion of people who turned up out of those who registered.

Yours sincerely,

GABRIELLA PRESTON

Joshua Lynch, Electoral Commission

Dear Gabriella Preston

 

Thank you for your email to the Electoral Commission.

 

The total electorate for the EU Referendum (ie. all those individuals both
registered and eligible to vote) was 46,500,001.

 

Please let me know if you require any further information.

 

Kind regards

 

Joshua Lynch

Public Info Officer

The Electoral Commission

3 Bunhill Row

London

EC1Y 8YZ

Tel: 020 7271 0508

Fax: 020 7271 0665

[1]www.electoralcommission.org.uk

[2]www.aboutmyvote.co.uk

 

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GABRIELLA PRESTON

Dear Joshua Lynch,

That is not what I asked - do you have an estimate for the number of people in the UK who were eligible to vote (registered or not)?

Yours sincerely,

GABRIELLA PRESTON

Joshua Lynch, Electoral Commission

Dear Gabriella Preston

Apologies I misunderstood your request.

We do not have exactly what you are after, the closest alternative I can offer you is our report on the accuracy and completeness of the electoral register.

This relates to data from December 2015.

It is available for you to view at the following link:
http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__...

Kind regards

Joshua Lynch
Public Info Officer
The Electoral Commission
3 Bunhill Row
London
EC1Y 8YZ
Tel: 020 7271 0508
Fax: 020 7271 0665
www.electoralcommission.org.uk
www.aboutmyvote.co.uk

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