London Banter - View Single Post - Electoral registration (was: Croxley Rail Link go ahead confirmed)

[email protected] · April 9th 15, 01:29 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Roland
Perry) wrote:

In message , at
18:12:24 on Wed, 8 Apr 2015, remarked:
Very few students were registered to vote before the reduction of the
voting age. This was partly because you had to be 21 at the time you
qualified to register to vote (i.e. in October before each May's
elections). The voting age was reduced in 1970 and provision was made to
include everyone on the register from their 18th birthday.

And what with students in those days probably being from a 4yr
O-level stream, not having gap years, and almost always on a 3yr
degree course, not very many undergrads would have been over-21
anyway.

Not exactly. All Cambridge students had to do the 7th term entrance exam.
But the real point was that no-one could vote before they were 21 1/2 and
most not until they were nearly 22.

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Colin Rosenstiel