Rutherglen & Hamilton West

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Oct 26, 2024 9:25:53 GMT The Bishop said:

Oct 25, 2024 18:41:28 GMT Davıd Boothroyd said:

Just spotted the Electoral Commission's report (https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/research-reports-and-data/our-reports-and-data-past-elections-and-referendums/report-2023-recall-petition-rutherglen-and-hamilton-west) on the recall petition which includes the interesting stats on how the petition was signed. The threshold was 8,113.

Week One: 7,095
Week Two: 2,131 (going over the threshold sometime midweek)
Week Three: 1,126
Week Four: 750
Week Five: 584
Week Six: 687

The Returning Officer sent out 14,865 postal signing sheets for the recall petition, of which 6,869 were returned; 62 were ruled out due to mismatching signatures etc, so 6,807 were included in the count. That's 55% of all the signatures.

This is fascinating, I had no idea that the signatures were so "front loaded".

Are similar stats available for other recall petitions, and if so how do they compare?

Not to mention so postal. I didn't even know you could sign by post.