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    Vote or Abstain? Part 2 – Engaging the European Electorate

    Tuesday, 20 May, 2014

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    Vote or Abstain? Part 1 – What’s behind falling Euro turnout

    Monday, 19 May, 2014

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    ‘First Class the Post’: The Rise of Postal Voting

    Thursday, 01 May, 2014

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    Bringing electoral registration into the twenty-first century

    Wednesday, 12 March, 2014

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    Elections and electoral administration: developments since 2010

    Friday, 21 February, 2014

    This paper looks in brief at some of the developments relating to elections and electoral administration in the UK since the general election since 2010. It tracks the commitments in relation to elections contained in the Coalition Government’s agreement, The Coalition: Our Programme for Government, published in May 2010. Other key developments relating to elections are outlined, for example the Law Commission’s review of electoral law and proposed changes to electoral arrangements for the Northern Ireland Assembly and the National Assembly for Wales

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    Electoral Statistics 2012

    Wednesday, 10 July, 2013

    This note provides data on electorates of parliamentary constituencies at December 2011. There were 46.3 million people registered to vote in UK parliamentary elections at 1 December 2012, an increase of 247,000 on December 2011.

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    The History of the Parliamentary Franchise

    Friday, 01 March, 2013

    This paper gives a history of the Parliamentary franchise and shows the incremental stages which led to universal suffrage across the UK by drawing on several of the recognised sources which have dealt with the subject and by referring to the key legislation.

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    Constituency boundaries: the Sixth General Review in Wales

    Monday, 04 February, 2013

    This Note gives details of the 2013 review in Wales, its progress and the consultation process. It should be read in conjunction with Library Standard Note 6095, Initial proposals for new constituency boundaries: Wales which looks at the extent to which the proposed constituencies can be identified with existing seats and which existing constituencies will be most affected by the proposals.

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    Electoral Registration and Administration Bill 2012-13: progress of the Bill

    Thursday, 31 January, 2013

    The Electoral Registration and Administration Bill 2012-13 was introduced on 10 May 2012. The Bill makes provision for a legislative framework for the introduction of a new system of individual electoral registration (IER) under which electors will be registered individually instead of by household. This Note summarises the progress of the Bill. It supplements Research Paper 12/26 which was produced for the Bill’s second reading in the House of Commons on 23 May 2012.

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    Individual electoral registration in Northern Ireland

    Monday, 10 December, 2012

    A report by the Electoral Commission on continuous electoral registration in Northern Ireland, published in November 2012, found that there had been ‘a significant and worrying decline in both the accuracy and completeness of Northern Ireland’s electoral register’ since 2008. The Note looks at the introduction of individual electoral registration in Northern Ireland and the abolition of the annual canvass.

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    Electoral Registration and Administration Bill

    Thursday, 17 May, 2012

    This research paper has been written to inform Members in preparation for the second reading of the Electoral Registration and Administration Bill 2012-13

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    Sizes of Constituency Electorates

    Friday, 04 March, 2011

    The Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act contains measures to set the number of UK parliamentary constituencies at 600 and to limit the permitted variation in the number of registered electors for a constituency. This note considers the possible impact by region of the proposals in the Bill and compares the sizes of constituency electorates at 1 December 2010. It looks at the variation in electorate sizes about national and regional means and about the UK Electoral Quota as defined in the Act.

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    2010 General Election: new constituencies; seats and swing

    Friday, 02 April, 2010

    The 2010 General Election will use new constituency boundaries in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. In Scotland the boundaries will be the same as 2005. After the election there will be 650 seats in the House of Commons, four more than the 646 now. In partisan terms, the new areas give a net benefit to the Conservatives. If the 2005 election had been fought on the new boundaries the Conservatives would have gained around 12 additional seats and Labour seven fewer.

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    Electorate statistics 2009

    Friday, 26 March, 2010

    This Note provides data on the number of electors and attainers in each parliamentary constituency as at 1 December 2009, published by the Office for National Statistics on 26 February 2010.

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    General Election 2005

    Friday, 10 March, 2006

    General Election 2005. House of Commons Library Research Paper 05/33

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