Electoral register
Why register?
If you do not register you cannot vote.
Did you know that registering to vote can help you with?
- opening a bank account
- mortgages
- loans
- store card
- mobile phones
Register of Electors (voting registration)
Registration of electors form 
(PDF: 77KB)
to be listed on the Register of Electors
What you need to know:
- we publish a new Register of Electors on 1st December each year following a full canvass of every residential property in the borough
- canvass forms for this purpose are sent out in August/early September
- the 'rolling register': at other times of the year we process individual applications for registration and publish a monthly update to the register (shown below), with additions, deletions and amendments made to the annual register. This is done between January to September
- it takes about six weeks to take effect depending on when the application is received. These are the legally fixed dates for updating the register each month.
| Last date of applications | Date of publication |
|---|---|
| Monday 12 December 2011 | Tuesday 3 January 2012 |
| Tuesday 10 January 2012 | Wednesday 1 February 2012 |
| Wednesday 8 February 2012 | Thursday 1 March 2012 |
| Friday 9 March 2012 | Monday 2 April 2012 |
| Thursday 5 April 2012 (if no elections in 2012) | Tuesday 1 May 2012 |
| Wednesday 18 April 2012 (if there is elections in 2012) | Thursday 26 April 2012 |
| Thursday 10 May 2012 | Friday 1 June 2012 |
| Friday 8 June 2012 | Monday 2 July 2012 |
| Tuesday 10 July 2012 | Wednesday 1 August 2012 |
| Friday 10 August 2012 | Monday 3 September 2012 |
Two versions of the register are published. One is the full register which can only be used for electoral, law enforcement and credit reference purposes.
The other is the edited version which does not contain the names of those people who have chosen to opt out of it. The edited register is available for sale to anyone for any purpose.
Who can look at the register?
The full register is available at the Electoral Registration Office. The electoral register is a public document and is open to inspection under strict supervision by electoral registration staff.
The edited register is available at all libraries throughout the borough. The Electoral Registration Office can also confirm if a person is registered to a property.
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