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<p>The Elections Bill Impact Assessment estimates the removal of the 15 year rule
will increase the number of British citizens abroad who are eligible to register to
vote from 0.9 million - 1.1 million people to 3.2 million - 3.4 million people in
2023/24. It is not possible to accurately estimate the future numbers of overseas
electors, due to the uncertainty over what proportion of the newly enfranchised will
choose to register. The central estimate in the Impact Assessment for the Elections
Bill considers the scenario in which 550,000 overseas electors are registered to vote
in 2024 <ins class="ministerial">- an increase of 320,000 compared to the numbers
of overseas electors registered at the time of the 2019 general election</ins> (by
way of context, there were 47.6 million UK Parliamentary electors registered at the
2019 general election).</p><p>This suggests a potential uplift in the <ins class="ministerial">number
of persons on the</ins> Parliamentary electoral register in the region of <del class="ministerial">1</del><ins
class="ministerial">0.7</ins>%, and such numbers would be distributed across the country<del
class="ministerial"> according to their last constituency in which they resided</del>.</p>
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