Postal voting

If you are applying to vote by post, you are now required to provide your national insurance number as part of your application, this will be verified against government records.

This is an anti-fraud measure to protect the integrity of the postal voting system and you can now apply online for a postal vote.

The maximum period you can have a postal vote for before having to reapply is up to 3 years. 

If you hand in your postal vote at a polling station on the day of the election, you will only be allowed to hand in a maximum of six postal votes.

Political parties and campaigners will be prevented from handing in postal votes.

Please see the Postal vote handling and secrecy and Postal voting pages for further information.