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Mon 12 Dec 2008Young voter numbers on North register jump 3,000%
THE NUMBER of young voters putting their names on the North's electoral register has jumped by a massive 3,000 per cent.
The latest Electoral Register, published today as required by the Representation of the People Act, shows an overall rise of more than 16,500, bringing the total electorate to 1,142,547. This comfortably surpasses the Electoral Office's target of adding 11,500 new names to the register in time for the next election, scheduled to be the European Parliament poll in June.
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