Thanks for pointing that out 
It may be an over simplification but I was only quoting what is stated on these and other sites, and is what most people will find. 
Conscientious Objectors, on the other hand, were disenfranchised for five years
http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/notes/snpc-04276.pdf
http://www.durham.gov.uk/recordoffice/usp.nsf/lookup/pdfhandlists/$file/userguide06.pdf
http://www.glamro.gov.uk/adobe/Electors.pdf
http://www.swansea.gov.uk/media/pdf/0/6/Electoral_registers.pdf
Stan
Thanks for this. It seems to be the old case of everybody quoting each other, without anyone going back to sources. The one actual source cited is David Butler, who really should have known better. Some of the papers you cite have gone way beyond Butler, implying that all conscientious objectors were barred from the franchise for all time, along with the oft-quoted "peers and lunatics".
The relevant legislation is the Representation of the People Act 1918, s 9 (2), which set up a complicated procedure whereby all COs were disqualified from voting for five years from the end of the war, except those in the Non-Combatant Corps and those who could satisfy the Central Tribunal (retained specially for the purpose) that they had done Work of National Importance. In fact, ony 404 applied under that provision, and the Central Tribunal was obliged to recognise that in many cases COs had been included in the register because the registration officer had been ignorant of the facts. It reported in 1922, "There seems no other conclusion possible but that the section has failed in its intended effect".
Butler and others are also wrong in stating that the five-year period of supposed disfranchisement was 1918-1923, because the war was not legally concluded until 31 August 1921, and the notional five years therefore expired on 30 August 1926. The most succinct account of all this is in John Rae, 'Conscience and Politics', OUP, 1970, pp 234-5.
Fitzjohn
