More than 1% of the UK population register to vote on day before deadline after woman uses Tinder to get people to apply

MORE than 620,000 people registered to vote in the General Election on the final day before the deadline.

Some of them may have been inspired by an activist who used Tinder to encourage her matches to apply to cast a ballot on June 8.

A high-profile push by politicians and celebrities saw 612,543 people use the online form and 9,855 resort to pen and paper to get their applications by midnight on Monday, around 1% of the population.

Musicians from Pink Floyd frontman David Gilmour to grime artist JME urged people on Twitter to make sure people could have their say.

Those leaving it late to apply included 246,000 under 25-year-olds and 207,000 in the 25-34 age bracket.

It came after Yara Rodrigues Fowler revealed she was sending links to the registration site to people she messaged on the dating app Tinder.

The 24-year-old activist said: “A couple of people have been disappointed, but more have found it fun.”

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She matched with both men and women and told the BBC: "Some have asked me how they should vote, and one has even asked me to be his proxy.

"Another didn't know whether his constituency was a marginal, so he sent me his postcode and I found out for him."


The Labour supporter says not everyone on Tinder agrees with her politically, adding: "I spoke to one man who said he was a Tory but I think he was just being provocative in a misguided attempt to flirt.”

Miss Rodrigues Fowler said she came up with the idea as Tinder is an app where people pay attention when they get notifications.

Earlier this week the Electoral Commission revealed more than two million people had signed up since the snap election was called.

But they warned that despite this about seven million people across Britain who are eligible to vote were still not registered.

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