Electoral register

Why register?

If you do not register you cannot vote.

Did you know that registering your vote can help you with:

  • opening a bank account
  • mortgages
  • loans
  • store cards
  • mobile phones.

The Register of Electors, 'rolling registration'


We publish a new Register of Electors on 1 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.Two versions of the register are published. One is the full register which can only be used for electoral, law enforcement amd credit reference purposes.

The other is the edited verion which does not contain the names of those people who have chosen to opt out of it. The register is available for sale to anyone for any purpose.

These are the legally fixed dates for updating the register each month:

Date of publication:
Tuesday 11 December 2007 Wednesday 2 January 2008
Thursday 10 January 2008 Friday 1 February 2008
Friday 8 February 2008 Monday 3 March 2008
Monday 10 March 2008 Tuesday 1 April 2008
Wednesday 16 April 2008 Thursday 1 May 2008
Friday 9 May 2008 Tuesday 2 June 2008
Monday 9 June 2008 Tuesday 1 July 2008
Thursday 10 July 2008 Friday 1 August 2008
Friday 8 August 2008 Monday 1 September 2008

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Electoral Registration Office (ERO)
North London Business Park (NLBP)
Oakleigh Road South
London
N11 1NP
Phone Number
020 8359 5577
Text Number (SMS)
07781 473279
Fax Number
0870 889 6815
Typetalk
18001 020 8359 2040
Email
ero@barnet.gov.uk