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tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
min answer › date of answer	2019-05-17
answer › question first answered	2019-08-05T10:24:38.133Z
min answer › question first answered	2019-07-22T13:00:39.16Z
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23/07/2019

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Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission

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Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission

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Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission

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Election Offences: Prosecutions

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To ask the hon. Member for Houghton and Sunderland South, representing the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, how many successful prosecutions for (a) postal vote fraud, excluding by proxy voting, and (b) electoral registration fraud there have been in each of the last 15 years.

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Vale of Clwyd

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Chris Ruane

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280939

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is ministerial correction

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05/08/2019

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The Commission has collected and published information about allegations of electoral fraud from the police since 2008.The table below shows the number of successful prosecutions for allegations of postal vote and electoral registration fraud. It splits convictions for postal vote fraud into those relating to applications to vote by post and those relating to voting by post.Number of successful prosecutions relating to postal vote fraud<table><tbody><tr><td>Year</td><td>Convictions relating to applications to vote by post</td><td>Convictions relating to voting by post</td><td>Convictions relating to electoral registration</td></tr><tr><td>2018</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>2017</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>2016</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>2015</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>2014</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>2013</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>2012</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>2011</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>2010</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>2009</td><td>n/a</td><td>n/a</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>2008</td><td>n/a</td><td>n/a</td><td>0</td></tr></tbody></table>The police-recorded cases of alleged personation offences in 2008 and 2009 were not broken down to record the type of personation, i.e. polling station, postal voting or proxy voting. It is for this reason these figures are not available.

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Houghton and Sunderland South

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Bridget Phillipson

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05/08/2019 10:24:38

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	label	Biography information for Chris Ruane