Speeches

Sadiq Khan – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sadiq Khan on 2015-11-02.

To ask the hon. Member for South West Devon, representing the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission, how many people on the electoral register on 7 May 2015 were (a) registered under individual electoral registration, (b) data matched and (c) carried over from the old register in each London borough.

Mr Gary Streeter

The Electoral Commission holds data on how many register entries on 7 May 2015 related to electors who had either been confirmed, through data matching, or were individually registered, and the number that were being retained on the registers under the IER transitional arrangements. This data is set out below by local authority area in London.

Local authority

Confirmed or IER Registered

Retained

Local Government (incl. Attainers)

Barking and Dagenham

116,080

11,107

127,187

Barnet

232,443

16,587

249,030

Bexley

170,789

8,432

179,221

Brent

195,769

22,004

217,773

Bromley

235,233

6,889

242,122

Camden

147,719

10,070

157,789

City of London

6,514

428

6,942

Croydon

250,652

13,231

263,883

Ealing

239,332

6,929

246,261

Enfield

207,295

10,242

217,537

Greenwich

175,963

8,952

184,915

Hackney

147,700

43,774

191,474

Hammersmith and Fulham

124,392

6,660

131,052

Haringey

153,161

18,537

171,698

Harrow

167,110

13,490

180,600

Havering

182,833

5,378

188,211

Hillingdon

202,116

7,123

209,239

Hounslow

181,404

8,079

189,483

Islington

148,265

9,524

157,789

Kensington and Chelsea

86,285

17,660

103,945

Kingston upon Thames

116,425

1,689

118,114

Lambeth

214,529

25,297

239,826

Lewisham

181,801

16,187

197,988

Merton

146,741

6,233

152,974

Newham

186,965

18,896

205,861

Redbridge

192,949

25,486

218,435

Richmond upon Thames

138,025

1,336

139,361

Southwark

197,577

15,230

212,807

Sutton

139,529

8,141

147,670

Tower Hamlets

170,626

15,215

185,841

Waltham Forest

172,094

14,616

186,710

Wandsworth

228,354

13,347

241,701

Westminster

129,062

8,244

137,306