Over 100k ballots spoiled

I wonder if there are more spoilt ballots in areas where there is a larger amount of people who speak little English. I've heard from two friends that their parents, who don't speak English, accidentally spoilt their ballot papers as they misunderstood for to fill them in.

305 in my constituency. 0.6%.

Wasn't there a big spoiled ballot movement last GE over Brexit? Maybe that has decreased and been replaced?

Ooh and the best thing I’ve heard so far from one council is that one voter tore all the corners off their ballot as their way of spoiling it 😂

@Judashascomeintosomemoney they do break it down by categories on some websites, there’s four possible ways a vote is categories as spoiled, but none of them are actually tell you either way if someone just had a mad moment or was protesting. I’d imagine mishaps are a fairly consistent and low number, so increases suggest protest.

I think this election is going to knock previous ones into a cocked hat because it’s already more than 100,000 and I haven’t heard back yet from a LOT of constituencies (who didn’t pop it on their website). With a rough average of 150 spoiled per constituency so far, assuming that holds, it’s going to climb quite a bit. I’m reckoning another 15, 000 at this point.

0.3 percent of voters spoiling a ballot was considered higher than usual in a previous general election. So when I’ve collected all of the information, someone good at maths working out what percentage it is might be helpful.

Also, although it was nearly 100,000 in a previous recent general election, I’ve found years before that where it was 25,000 so I think dissatisfaction with our politicians over the last decade has just been so much higher.

From a quick google, Roughly the same as 2015 and both a bit higher than 2017, so not a significant change in numbers. I suppose the key thing is the reason (where there is a reason and not just a mistake) and whether there is an increase in spoilt votes spoilt due to one particular issue. But I don’t suppose there’s any info on that as there are set categories for spoilt ballots.

There is information about spoilt ballots for 2015 and 2017 here www.electoralcommission.org.uk/who-we-are-and-what-we-do/elections-and-referendums/past-elections-and-referendums/uk-general-elections/results-and-turnout-2017-uk-general-election

They show this as %, which I assume is a % of votes cast. Dont have time now but could at sometime in the future work it out.

However on the Protest Votes Count web site it says spoilt ballots in 2015 was nearly 100,000 www.votenone.org.uk/spoilt-ballot-results-2015.html

And as the earlier link shows not much difference in 2015 and 2017 it seems to imply that the number of spoilt ballots doesn't vary that much per election.

I know that the number of spoiled ballots in my constituency was over double the number at the last election, despite a smaller turnout.

Leeds North East 531- flipping heck that seems high- i'm thinking there might be a lot of pissed off women (and their partners!) around these parts (so why are all my fb friends so bloody woke?!)- thank you- I don't feel so alone.

Tory majority.

That is the general message isn’t it?

Fascinating. All historical data is also available on council websites. In my own constituency the number increased by 30 or 40, so not hugely significant I would have thought.

wish we could find out how