The Electoral Commission

https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/

Last activity: 16.09.2026

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All the latest information on voting in the UK. Your vote matters! Run by the Electoral Commission,

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United Kingdom, England, London

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Founded date

2000

Mentions in press and media 30

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Mar 26, 2026	Plaid Cymru would bankrupt an independent Wales on day one	The local elections will likely see Labour lose the grip it has held on Wales since the inception of the Senedd. If Plaid Cymru does indeed form the next government, the UK might usefully acclimatise them to what life would be like under in...
Jan 27, 2026	Exclusive: Corbyn and Sultana’s Your Party UK Ltd to be deleted	Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s Your Party is set to be wiped off an official register, City AM can reveal. The two former Labour politicians, who are both listed as directors of the party on Companies House, have tussled for control whil...
Jan 15, 2026	Watch: We’ll regret granting this embassy to hostile China	Is China our enemy or our ally? Is it an adversary or a partner? The trading relationship is huge, but so are the security risks. In the City, China means big business. Last year the UK exported £30bn worth of goods and services to China wh...
Jun 10, 2025	Conservatives defy claims the party is ‘dying’ with millions in fundraising	The Tory party raised £3.4m in donations in the first quarter of 2025, surpassing all other parties’ fundraising efforts and defying claims the party was ‘dying’. In addition to short money – meaning taxpayer and electoral commission fundin...
Dec 19, 2024	Elon Musk considers funding Nigel Farage’s populist party, a move that could shake up UK politics	Critics say that is a loophole that allows foreign influence in U.K. politics. The voting watchdog, the Electoral Commission, is calling for changes including limiting the amount a company can donate, so that it can’t put in more money than...
Jul 8, 2024	Improve the voting system	We would like to ask you some questions about the information you get before an election, registering to vote and voting, and what you think can be done to make it better. You do not have to answer every question. The instructions will help...
May 3, 2024	Ex-U.K. leader Boris Johnson turned away from polling station for forgetting photo ID under law he ushered in	Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson was turned away from his local polling station Thursday as he failed bring with him photo identification, which is required under a relatively new law introduced by his government two years ago. Poll...
Apr 9, 2024	UK Gov Cyber Breaches Survey 2024 \| Key Stats and Data	The Cyber Security Breaches Survey is a research study for UK cyber-resilience, aligning with the UK Government’s National Cyber Strategy. The study explores the policies, processes and approach to cybersecurity, for businesses, charities a...
Mar 8, 2024	2024: the year of elections – and rampant disinformation	Disinformation – sharing false information to deceive and mislead others – can take many forms. From edited “deepfake” videos made on smartphones to vast foreign-led information operations, politics and elections show how varied disinformat...
Aug 9, 2023	UK Electoral Commission systems breached for over a year	Systems at the Electoral Commission, the body which oversees elections in the UK, have suffered a breach exposing electoral registers which hold the data of anyone registered to vote between 2014 and 2022. The Commission’s email system was ...
Aug 9, 2023	Parsing the UK electoral register cyberattack	A catastrophic breach of the United Kingdom electoral register affects tens of millions of residents following a cyberattack at the U.K. Electoral Commission. With data on more than 40 million voters accessed by unnamed hackers, the cyberat...
Aug 9, 2023	How an unpatched Microsoft Exchange 0-day likely caused one of the UK’s biggest hacks ever	Enlarge / Building with Microsoft logo. Getty Images reader comments 19 with It’s looking more and more likely that a critical zero-day vulnerability that went unfixed for more than a month in Microsoft Exchange was the cause of one of the ...
Aug 8, 2023	Electoral Commission hack exposed data of 40 million UK voters	The personal information of approximately 40 million U.K. voters was exposed to hackers for more than a year after the Electoral Commission fell victim to a “complex cyberattack.” The Electoral Commission, the watchdog responsible for overs...
Aug 8, 2023	UK Electoral Commission Falls Victim to Cyber Attack, Investigations Underway	John Lopez, Tech Times 08 August 2023, 10:08 am In a startling revelation, the UK's Electoral Commission has confirmed that it fell victim to a cyber attack, potentially compromising access to electoral registers. The election watchdog shar...
Apr 12, 2023	Time running out to register to vote on 4 May – and promo bikes take to streets with photo ID message	Residents who haven’t yet registered to vote in the local elections on 5 May are being urged to do so before next Monday’s deadline. People can register to vote online by 11.59pm on Monday 17 April at www.gov.uk/register-to-vote if they hav...
May 22, 2021	Britain’s photo ID system undermines the democracy it is trying to preserve	A voter leaves a polling location in the UK. Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images The Queen announced that UK citizens will need photo ID to vote in upcoming elections. In a country where an estimated quarter of voters lack ID, the move undermines de...
Nov 11, 2020	Data audit of UK political parties finds laundry list of failings	In a finding that should surprise no one, an audit of how UK political parties are handling voter information has surfaced a damning lack of compliance with data protection rules across the political spectrum — with parties failing to come ...
Oct 23, 2018	UK Government Failing to Tackle Fake News – Damian Collins MP	The UK Government must focus its attention on tackling ‘fake news‘ and social media misinformation to protect Britain’s democracy, MPs have said. Damian Collins, Chair of the Commons Culture Select Committee, said he is “disappointed” by th...
Oct 17, 2018	Facebook Political Ad Overhaul Aims for Greater Transparency	Political parties in the UK will now be required to verify their identity and location in order to take out adverts on Facebook. The policy changes implemented by Facebook have been designed to improve transparency in political advertising....
Jul 30, 2018	Fake news inquiry calls for social media levy to defend democracy	A UK parliamentary committee which has been running a multi-month investigation into the impact of online disinformation on political campaigning — and on democracy itself — has published a preliminary report highlighting what it describes ...
Jul 17, 2018	It’s official: Brexit campaign broke the law — with social media’s help	The UK’s Electoral Commission has published the results of a near nine-month-long investigation into Brexit referendum spending and has found that the official Vote Leave campaign broke the law by breaching election campaign spending limits...
Jun 26, 2018	Digital campaigning vs democracy: UK election regulator calls for urgent law changes	A report by the UK’s Electoral Commission has called for urgent changes in the law to increase transparency about how digital tools are being used for political campaigning, warning that an atmosphere of mistrust is threatening the democrat...
May 22, 2018	Vote Leave Under Scrutiny for Data Harvesting	Two Pro-Brexit campaign groups, Vote Leave and BeLeave, are under intense scrutiny from MP’s for allegedly using dubiously acquired Facebook data and colluding during the referendum campaign – the latter constituting a serious breach of ele...
Nov 2, 2016	The ballot box pen/pencil argument has reared its ugly head yet again
Nov 6, 2014	Far-Right U.K. Group Gets Millions of Hits and Expands Into the U.S.	Britain First should be too small and too slapstick to matter, and perhaps it is. The organization has fewer than 1,000 paid-up members according to the U.K. antifascist group Hope Not Hate. Its views lie so close to the outer-right edge of...
Jul 29, 2014	Labour topped political party funding in 2013
	No God, no big ads and no age debate: The UK election race is very different to America’s	Electorates in the U.S. and U.K. are both being bombarded with election campaigns at the moment. The U.K. election is on July 4 and the U.S. presidential vote is on Nov. 5. While the respective campaigns might focus on certain universal iss...
	Electoral Commission apologises for data breach affecting millions of voters	The Electoral Commission issued a public notification earlier today, confirming that the personal data of up to 40 million UK voters has been compromised by unknown "hostile actors," in what it termed a complex cyberattack. Electo...
	U.S. and Britain accuse China-linked hackers of ‘malicious’ cyber campaigns, announce sanctions	British Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden on Monday said that the Chinese state was behind a “malicious cyber campaign” on the U.K.’s Electoral Commission. A spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in the U.K. said allegations of China being...

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The Electoral Commission was founded in 2000.

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Parsers VC has collected 30 articles mentioning The Electoral Commission, among them “Plaid Cymru would bankrupt an independent Wales on day one” (Mar 26, 2026) and “Exclusive: Corbyn and Sultana’s Your Party UK Ltd to be deleted” (Jan 27, 2026).

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The Electoral Commission is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Sep 16, 2026.