Nine in ten electors have been automatically added to the electoral register, due to a new IT system introduced by the Government.
Individual Electoral Registration (IER), which replaced the previous household registration system, matches an elector’s name and address against existing records. The results are then passed to Electoral Services Teams to complete the application.
A report out today shows that so far, over 36 million people have been added.
Minister for the constitution, Sam Gyimah, said: ‘As today’s report shows, we’ve exceeded our expectations of the number of people who will be automatically registered, and this demonstrates the success of what’s been a complex IT project and historic electoral transition.
‘But we know there are still people who are not registered so we’ll keep pushing ahead to ensure that as many people as possible have a say in how the country is run.’
The people who have yet to be matched, or those making new applications, will need to complete an online application process.