{"id":56478,"date":"2015-04-22T08:22:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T08:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=edbb78b6a9eb720e7cfa1e22b7efaceb"},"modified":"2015-04-22T08:22:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T08:22:07","slug":"news-story-voter-registration-deadline-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=56478","title":{"rendered":"News story: Voter registration deadline passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Here are some of the key facts for voter registration on 20 April 2015:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>there were 485,012 applications  <\/li>\n<li>this included 469,000 digital applications  <\/li>\n<li>9,900 were applications from British citizens overseas    <\/li>\n<li>137,400 applications were received from 16-24 year olds  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some of the more general facts about voter registration include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>since June there have been 9,218,788 applications: of these, 2,131,017 have been from 16 to 24-year-olds<\/li>\n<li>since 1 December there have been 5,236,895 applications: of these, 1,388,862 have been from 16 to 24-year-olds<\/li>\n<li>since 1 March there have been 3,029,497 applications: of these, 817,168 have been from 16-24 year olds <\/li>\n<li>overall 77% of applications since June have been made online, but this has been over 90% in the last few weeks<\/li>\n<li>there have been 68,449 applications from British citizens overseas since 1 March<\/li>\n<li>user satisfaction has remained above 90%, with the most recent figure of 94.1%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can find more data about voter registration and other GOV.UK services on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/performance\/register-to-vote\">GOV.UK performance platform<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deadline for applying to be registered to vote for the general election and other polls on May 7 passed at midnight on 20 April 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}