Speeches

Dame Anne Begg – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Speaker’s Committee on the Electorial Commission

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Dame Anne Begg on 2014-03-12.

To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission, what the electoral registration figures were in each ward in the recent confirmation dry run conducted in (a) Aberdeen City Council and (b) Aberdeenshire County Council.

Gary Streeter

The Electoral Commission informs me that the confirmation dry run involved matching all entries on the electoral registers against the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Customer Information System database. Entries would be marked as green if they matched with DWP, amber if they were a partial match or red if there was no match.

Results for all wards are available on the Commission’s website here: http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/excel_doc/0003/163146/Confirmation-dry-run-2013-Results-Wards.xls

The ward results for Aberdeen City Council were as follows:

Ward

Green matches

Amber matches

Red matches

Airyhall/Broomhill/Garthdee

78.4%

2.0%

19.6%

Bridge Of Don

84.4%

1.5%

14.1%

Dyce/Bucksburn/Danestone

79.4%

3.4%

17.2%

George St/Harbour

46.2%

8.1%

45.8%

Hazlehead/Ashley/Queens Cross

76.0%

3.0%

21.0%

Hilton/Woodside/Stockethill

77.2%

1.9%

21.0%

Kincorth/Nigg/Cove

82.9%

1.7%

15.4%

Kingswells/Sheddocksley/Summerhill

83.0%

1.3%

15.7%

Lower Deeside

77.6%

5.4%

17.0%

Midstocket/Rosemount

62.9%

5.2%

31.9%

Northfield/Mastrick North

85.0%

1.4%

13.7%

Tillydrone/Seaton/Old Aberdeen

55.1%

3.9%

41.1%

Torry/Ferryhill

67.2%

5.1%

27.7%

The ward results for Aberdeenshire County Council were as follows:

Ward

Green matches

Amber matches

Red matches

Aboyne Upper Deeside And Donside

72.7%

9.4%

17.9%

Banchory And Mid Deeside

79.3%

5.4%

15.4%

Banff And District

78.0%

6.9%

15.1%

Central Buchan

74.5%

9.7%

15.9%

East Garioch

79.0%

4.5%

16.5%

Ellon And District

78.8%

5.1%

16.1%

Fraserburgh And District

82.2%

3.1%

14.7%

Huntly Strathbogie And Howe Of Alford

74.5%

9.4%

16.1%

Inverurie And District

80.3%

3.3%

16.4%

Mearns

73.7%

9.1%

17.1%

Mid Formartine

74.9%

7.9%

17.2%

North Kincardine

78.5%

4.8%

16.7%

Peterhead North And Rattray

78.6%

4.5%

16.9%

Peterhead South And Cruden

81.5%

3.8%

14.7%

Stonehaven And Lower Deeside

80.2%

4.3%

15.4%

Troup

76.8%

8.2%

15.0%

Turriff And District

73.7%

9.4%

16.9%

West Garioch

74.4%

8.7%

16.9%

Westhill And District

79.5%

4.4%

16.1%