As you can see from the graph 660k people registered to vote on the final day alone. The previous day saw 366k register. Making it over a million over the last two days.
It's a huge number of people. Especially when you consider that the population of the country is about 67 million, some of whom being too young to vote anyway.
Obviously many people will not bother voting this time out (there's some speculation that the voter turn out will be low). However, it stands to reason if you've made the effort to register in the last few weeks then it's highly likely that you're going to use that vote. So all things considered these newly registered voters will have a huge impact on the outcome.
The question then is; how will they vote?
Last time out in 2017 the freshly registered, predominantly younger voters, seemed to benefit Corbyn. So you would think this time it will be similar. Of the 660k that registered yesterday over 450k were under the age of 35.
Finally, if my maths is correct, 3.8 million people registered in total from the 29th of October, when the election was announced, to the 26th of November, deadline day. HUGE number.
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