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FOI/EIR 25/26-516-Electoral Register
Number of requests to be added to the Electoral Register 2025/26
Received 2 February 2026
1a. Requests to be entered onto the Electoral Register
1aa. During the period 01/01/2025 - 01/01/2026, how many people submitted requests to East Cambridgeshire District Council’s Electoral Services to be registered to vote?
1ab. During the period 01/01/2025 - 01/01/2026, how many of the requests submitted to East Cambridgeshire District Council’s Electoral Services to be registered to vote led to the individual being added to the electoral register?
1b. Requests to be entered onto the Electoral Register with a second address
1ba. If held as a discrete data field, during the period 01/01/2025 - 01/01/2026, how many requests were submitted to East Cambridgeshire District Council’s Electoral Services to be registered to vote were for individuals with more than one address?
1bb. If held as a discrete data field, during the period 01/01/2025 - 01/01/2026, how many of the requests submitted to East Cambridgeshire District Council’s Electoral Services to be registered to vote and having more than one address, led to the individual being added to the electoral register?
1c. Requests around postal votes
1ca. During the period 01/01/2025 - 01/01/2026, how many requests were submitted to East Cambridgeshire District Council’s Electoral Services to be registered for postal voting?
1cb. During the period 01/01/2025 - 01/01/2026, how many requests submitted to East Cambridgeshire District Council’s Electoral Services to be registered for postal voting resulted in the applicant being granted a postal vote?
1cc. If held as a discrete data field, during the period 01/01/2025 - 01/01/2026, out of all requests submitted to East Cambridgeshire District Council’s Electoral Services to be registered for postal voting that led to applicants being granted a postal vote, how many of the requests were in the form of a new electoral registration request (as in the postal vote application was accompanied by a new request to be entered on the electoral register)?
1cd. If held as a discrete data field, during the period 01/01/2025 - 01/01/2026, out of all requests submitted to East Cambridgeshire District Council’s Cambridgeshire to be registered for postal voting that led to applicants being granted a postal vote, how many of the requests were from individuals previous entered on the electoral register?
2. Entries on the Electoral Register
2a. At the point in time of 01/01/2026, how many people were registered to vote on Cambridgeshire’s electoral register?
2b. At the point in time of 01/01/2026, did Cambridgeshire hold any data or estimates relating to electoral registration completeness (as in, an estimate of the percentage of people registered to vote out of every person entitled to be registered to vote in the region covered by Cambridgeshire’s Cambridgeshire)? If yes, what is this percentage/estimated percentage?
Responded 23 February 2026
I am writing to inform you that we have searched our records. Although we hold some of the information you requested, East Cambridgeshire District Council does not hold the remainder.
We have provided answers to your request below.
The information you have requested falls within the statutory duties of the Electoral Registration Officer (ERO) for the East Cambridgeshire District Council. Under the Representation of the People Act 1983, the ERO is a separate legal entity from the Council and is responsible for maintaining the electoral register and processing applications. The ERO is not listed as a public authority under Schedule 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and is therefore not subject to FOIA. This means that information held by the ERO in carrying out electoral registration functions is not accessible via an FOI request to the Council. For this reason, we are unable to supply the specific datasets you have requested.
However, outside the scope of FOIA, I offer the following high-level information (using your question codes). However, it must be noted that Applications (to Register and for PVs) are received via multiple channels (Gov.uk portal, email, paper forms, canvass returns, etc.). In addition, East Cambridgeshire’s ERO (along with all other EROs) receive a significant number of duplicate applications each year, for example, where electors reapply unnecessarily, update details already held or simply apply again when there is an election pending. Our software system does not store data in the exact categories specified in your request; therefore, precise figures cannot be reported.
1aa – Approx 8,223 applications were received
1ab – Approx 6,122 electors were added to the register
1b – Information Not Held
1ca - Approx 3,654 applications for a PV were received
1cb – Approx 3,592 Postal Votes were granted (these include an undetermined number of PVs granted for electors already with a PV).
1cc - Information Not Held
1cd – Information Not Held
2a – as at 1 Jan 2026 there were a total of 68,782 people on the Electoral Register for the East Cambridge District Council.
2b – Information Not Held; however, such assessments are typically carried out nationally by the Electoral Commission www.electoralcommission.org.uk