Speeches

Mr David Anderson – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Speaker’s Committee on the Electorial Commission

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mr David Anderson on 2014-03-10.

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) Gateshead Council and (b) Blaydon constituency.

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.

The ward results for Gateshead Council were as follows:

Ward

Green matches

Amber matches

Red matches

BIRTLEY

85.6%

1.4%

13.0%

BLAYDON

84.0%

1.2%

14.8%

BRIDGES

73.7%

2.0%

24.3%

CHOPWELL & ROWLANDS GILL

85.1%

1.8%

13.1%

CHOWDENE

88.7%

1.3%

10.0%

CRAWCROOK & GREENSIDE

84.6%

1.9%

13.5%

DECKHAM

82.8%

1.5%

15.7%

DUNSTON & TEAMS

80.5%

1.4%

18.1%

DUNSTON HILL & WHICKHAM EAST

87.6%

1.4%

11.0%

FELLING

84.5%

1.3%

14.2%

HIGH FELL

85.5%

1.9%

12.6%

LAMESLEY

84.8%

2.0%

13.1%

LOBLEY HILL & BENSHAM

82.1%

1.7%

16.2%

LOW FELL

85.1%

1.3%

13.6%

PELAW & HEWORTH

85.6%

1.2%

13.2%

RYTON, CROOKHILL & STELLA

85.3%

1.6%

13.1%

SALTWELL

76.9%

2.1%

21.0%

WARDLEY & LEAM LANE

88.0%

1.0%

11.0%

WHICKHAM NORTH

86.4%

1.2%

12.4%

WHICKHAM SOUTH & SUNNISIDE

88.2%

1.4%

10.4%

WINDY NOOK & WHITEHILLS

88.1%

1.0%

10.9%

WINLATON & HIGH SPEN

87.1%

1.7%

11.2%

The ward results for the Blaydon constituency were as follows:

Ward

Green matches

Amber matches

Red matches

BIRTLEY

84.0%

1.2%

14.8%

BLAYDON

85.1%

1.8%

13.1%

CHOPWELL & ROWLANDS GILL

84.6%

1.9%

13.5%

CRAWCROOK & GREENSIDE

87.6%

1.4%

11.0%

DUNSTON HILL & WHICKHAM EAST

84.8%

2.0%

13.1%

LAMESLEY

85.3%

1.6%

13.1%

RYTON, CROOKHILL & STELLA

86.4%

1.2%

12.4%

WHICKHAM NORTH

88.2%

1.4%

10.4%

WHICKHAM SOUTH & SUNNISIDE

87.1%

1.7%

11.2%

WINLATON & HIGH SPEN

84.0%

1.2%

14.8%

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