Publication - Research and analysis

Scottish Prisoner Voting Survey 2022

Published: 4 May 2023
From: Chief Social Researcher
Directorate: Performance, Delivery and Resilience Directorate
Topic: Constitution and democracy
ISBN: 9781805257455

A voluntary survey of prisoners serving sentences of 12 months or less, who since April 2020 have been eligible to register to vote in Scottish Parliament and local government elections. The survey was conducted in 2022.

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1. Prisoner voting consultation: analysis of responses - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

2. Prisoners | Electoral Commission for more details

3. Report on the Scottish Parliament election on 6 May 2021 | Electoral Commission

4. Report on the May 2022 Scottish council elections | Electoral Commission

5. Please see further details about the prisoner population count in the methodology section below.

6. Electoral (Amendment) Act 2006 (irishstatutebook.ie)

7. IPS-Annual-Report-2019-Web.pdf (irishprisons.ie)

8. Prisoner Data – Tuesday, 18 Jun 2019 – Parliamentary Questions (32nd Dáil) – Houses of the Oireachtas

9. A list of prisons is given in Annex C

10. Reproduced in Annex B

11. Scottish Prison Population Statistics 2021-22 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

12. Scottish prison population statistics technical manual - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

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Email: fergus.christie@gov.scot

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