Speeches

Nick Smith – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Speaker’s Committee on the Electorial Commission

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nick Smith on 2014-03-14.

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 Blaenau Gwent County Borough 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 Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council were as follows:

Ward

Green matches

Amber matches

Red matches

ABERTILLERY

82.4%

3.0%

14.6%

BADMINTON

87.9%

1.4%

10.7%

BEAUFORT

86.1%

1.6%

12.3%

BLAINA

83.0%

2.3%

14.7%

BRYNMAWR

82.1%

2.3%

15.7%

CWM

85.4%

1.6%

13.0%

CWMTILLERY

84.9%

1.9%

13.2%

EBBW VALE NORTH

85.1%

1.8%

13.1%

EBBW VALE SOUTH

81.2%

2.0%

16.8%

GEORGETOWN

85.4%

1.0%

13.7%

LLANHILLETH

82.8%

2.1%

15.0%

NANTYGLO

83.3%

2.6%

14.2%

RASSAU

86.7%

1.7%

11.6%

SIRHOWY

85.3%

1.7%

13.0%

SIX BELLS

82.8%

2.6%

14.6%

TREDEGAR CENTRAL & WEST

84.0%

1.9%

14.1%