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Treasury;Office for National Statistics

Answer

Mr. Evans: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) how many people living abroad at the last General Election were eligible to vote in the Election; and how many of these voted; [198641] (2) how many people between the ages of 18 and 24 years in the United Kingdom are expected to be eligible to vote at the next General Election. [198642] Mr. Timms: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply. Letter Len Cook to Mr. Nigel Evans, dated 17 November 2004: As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your questions concerning how many people living abroad at the last General Election were eligible to vote in the British General Election and how many of those voted; and how many people between the ages of 18 and 24 years in the United Kingdom are eligible to vote at the next General Election. (198641, 198642) There were 11,506 registered overseas electors as at 10 October 2000, the last date that figures were collated before the most recent General Election on 7 June 2001. Details of who voted are not available, consequently we are not able to say what proportion of the overseas electorate voted. Data are not available on how many people aged between 18 to 24 will be eligible to vote in the next General Election. Age information for those registered to vote is not recorded, other than information on the number of "attainers", that is those that will reach the voting age of 18 within two years. The estimated population aged between 18 and 24 in the United Kingdom as at 30 June 2003 was 5,245,300. However this does not represent the number of people aged 18 to 24 that are eligible to vote for various reasons, including non-registration.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

426 c1503W;426 c1507W; 198641;198642

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Absent voting Overseas residence Voting behaviour Young people Voting rights

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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