Question follow-through · 84199
Supplementary Vote: Voting Behaviour
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.
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- Answering body
- Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
- Tabled
- 22 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 29 Oct 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Oct 2025
Question tabled
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.
27 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Oct 2025
Answer published
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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