Who will be excluded from the national data match step?
Who will be excluded from the national data match step?
Certain types of electors must be excluded from the national data match step.1
These are:
14 and 15 year olds
all special category electors
You should also exclude the following electors and properties from the national data match:
Determined electors – individuals who have had their application determined and will be added to the register by the next notice of alteration. These electors will have only just been added to the register so will be considered matched by default.
Determined deletions – individuals who you have determined are no longer entitled to be registered and will be deleted from the register by the next notice of alteration.
Empty or void properties – as no electors are registered at these properties, there are no individuals to be matched against DWP data as part of the national data match step.
Special category electors
The following special category electors must be excluded from the national data match step, as they are not included within the annual canvass process:2
overseas electors, i.e. British citizens living outside the UK
HM Forces service voters (and their spouses or civil partners and those under 18 years old, living with their parent or guardian and their parent or guardian is a member of the armed forces)
Crown servants and British Council employees (and their spouses or civil partners and those under 18 years old, living with their parent or guardian and their parent or guardian is a Crown servant or British Council employee and they would be living in Scotland if their parent or guardian were not living overseas)
electors who have made a declaration of local connection, including people living in the UK who have no permanent or fixed address
anonymously registered electors, i.e. those who have registered anonymously because their safety would be at risk if they appeared on the register using their name
patients in mental health hospitals whose stay at the hospital is sufficient for them to be regarded as resident there
remand prisoners whose stay at a penal institution is sufficient for them to be regarded as resident there