I accept that point and add that taking the electoral register in the December of any year in a constituency such as mine, with its turnover, would ensure that the numbers would be depressed. In the four months leading up to the general election, we added about 4,000 voters to the register in Sheffield Central. They were caught up in the excitement of the campaign that we were running, but those additions reflect the difficulty of using the December figure.
Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill
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Paul Blomfield
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 19 October 2010.
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