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'
- Registration of Electors form (updated: Dec. 07)
(PDF: 50KB) to be listed on the Register of Electors
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:
| 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 |
Related Service Area Information: Elections
