https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/election17-voter-registration
Election 2017: Places with the lowest voter registration
https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/election17-voter-registration
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Election 2017: Places with the lowest voter registration
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/election17-voter-registration
- Owner: BBC-Data-Unit
- Created: 2017-05-24T10:28:17.000Z (about 8 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2019-11-20T09:14:04.000Z (over 5 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-12-27T08:41:50.603Z (6 months ago)
- Topics: elections, ge17, politics
- Homepage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-39999279
- Size: 17.6 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 5
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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# Election 2017: Places with the lowest voter registration
In May 2017 Dan Wainwright [reported on the UK constituencies with the lowest voter registration](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-39999279). This is a story with a lot of caveats: non-UK nationals, which are included in population figures, cannot vote, as we explain at various points in the report. Rob McNeil, of the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford, said:
> "It is difficult to get a precise picture of migrant population of a constituency as the data tends to be broken down by local authority area, many of which are divided up when it comes to seats in Parliament."
However, we believed it was important to report the story both to provide a useful starting point for exploring these issues, and explain these important contexts where others might be looking at the same data.
## Get the data
This data combines the latest Office for National Statistics data for December 2016, showing the number of registered voters per constituency, with the official population estimates.
* Google spreadsheet: [Registered voters vs population by constituency](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_5h-PVKPwvnwRXK9WbfQ3QqiSPXOQhgGguXJ_e5tOb0/edit#gid=0). *Note: Population estimates are for the 17+ age group as of mid-2015, the latest available. 17 year olds included as they would be 18 by the time the 2016 registration figures were compiled. Figures do not take account of residents who are not legally eligible to vote, eg immigrants or prisoners*
* [CSV: Registered voters vs population by constituency](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BBC-Data-Unit/election17-voter-registration/master/Registered%20voters%20vs%20population%20by%20constituency.csv)
## Visualisation and interactivity
* Multiple bar chart: Areas with the fewest registered voters as a share of the voting age population
* Multiple bar chart: Areas with the most registered voters as a share of the voting age population
* Search widget: Find your constituency and candidates
* Web bot: How to vote in this election (scroll to the end of the story to activate)
## Related repos
* [Election 2017: People turn to Google ahead of election](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/election17-google)
* [How non-voters can change the outcome of an election](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/non-voters)
* [Election 2017: If more young people actually voted, would it change everything?](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/election17-young-people)
You can [find all election-related stories in this GitHub account tagged 'elections'](https://github.com/search?q=topic%3Aelections+org%3ABBC-Data-Unit&type=Repositories)