Cabinet Office written question – answered at on 18 March 2014.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the size of the electorate was (a) the year before and (b) two years after the coming into force of the Representation of the People (England and Wales) Regulations 2001.
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Caron Walker, dated March 2014
On behalf of the Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the size of the electorate was (a) the year before and (b) two years after the coming into force of the Representation of the People (England and Wales) Regulations 2001 (192116).
The Representation of the People (England and Wales) Regulations 2001 came into force on
Thousand | ||
Parliamentary electors | Local government electors | |
2000 | — | 39,540.4 |
2001 | 39,532.0 | 39,872.0 |
2002 | 39,404.7 | 39,764.8 |
2003 | 39,192.5 | 39,573.6 |
These statistics are based on the annual electoral registers for
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