Electoral Registration

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Electoral Commission Committee – in the House of Commons at 10:30 am on 20 March 2008.

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Photo of Peter Viggers Peter Viggers Conservative, Gosport 10:30, 20 March 2008

The total number that could be eligible to vote is not known with accuracy, and I cannot answer the hon. Gentleman's question in the form in which he put it. As of 21 December 2007, about 5.5 million people were registered to vote in local government elections in Greater London, and the other figures were 38.5 million in England and about 2.25 million in Wales. Past research by the commission suggests that the level of non-registration—for technical reasons, I must give the non-registration figure, rather than that for registration—in England and Wales was between 8 and 9 per cent., and in London it could be between 10 and 20 per cent., depending on the area.