Written Question·Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission·UIN 84199

Voting Behaviour

Tabled: 22 October 2025
Answered: 29 October 2025

Question

Kevin Hollinrake

ConservativeThirsk and Malton

To ask the Right hon. Member for Kenilworth and Southam, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, what estimate the Electoral Commission has made of the number of spoilt votes under the supplementary vote electoral system.

Answer

Sir Jeremy Wright
The last set of elections held under the supplementary vote electoral system were the local government and PCC elections in May 2021. The percentage of rejected ballot papers at those elections was higher than at elections using first past the post in the...

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