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<p>The confirmation dry run match rate with Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
data for Great Britain is included in the Electoral Commission’s report on the dry
run, which is available on its website. Across Great Britain 78% of electors could
be matched with DWP. Subsequent analysis, from the trial of local data matching by
139 electoral registration officers, suggested that local data matching added an average
of 6% to the overall match rate.</p><p>The results of the confirmation live run for
Great Britain were included in the Commission’s recently published report on the live
run in Scotland, which is also available on its website. The data for Great Britain
was only available at this point as the transition to IER in Scotland began after
the referendum on independence. The final match rate, after matching with DWP and
local data, across Great Britain was 87%. These figures mean that overall approximately
40.5 million electors were matched.</p><p>Electoral Registration Officers are now
working to target those existing electors who could not be matched, as well as those
not currently on the registers at all.</p><p>The Commission will next report on the
transition to Individual Electoral Registration in England and Wales in February 2015
following the publication of the registers by 1 December 2014. This report will be
based on the results of our ongoing monitoring of performance as well as detailed,
local authority-level data collected from EROs. A separate assessment for Scotland
will be published in April 2015 following the publication of the revised registers
there by 2 March 2015.</p><p> </p>
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