Electoral Register

CSE logo The electoral roll is a public document listing all registered and eligible electors at their qualifying address within the District. There are currently 72 polling districts within the District each one representing a separate register. Each register is recorded in alphabetical street name order. The register is compiled each autumn with a relevant qualifying date of 15th October. Each household will receive an electoral registration form during the autumn canvass.

Please note that this authority is under a duty to protect the public funds it administers, and to this end may use the information you provide on registration forms for the prevention and detection of fraud. It may also share this information with other bodies responsible for auditing or administering public funds for these purposes.

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All households should receive a personally hand delivered form by 1st September each year. The Electoral Registration Officer (ERO) appointed by the Council is legally required to make at least a further two attempts by way of door-knocking households that do not reply, as the ERO has a legal duty to maximise its return. The ERO appoints personal canvassers to undertake the delivery and chasing up of non-responders.

The ERO met its target for the third year running. A 99% processed response rate based on electoral canvass forms returned, this being up 6% since the 2005 canvass. This high response is based on two main factors, door-knocking non-responders at both reminder stages and greater cross-checking against other Council held records which not only improves the response rate but the accuracy of the register.

For details on what Electoral Services provide and what you can expect from us, please view our Customer Service Standards document (see link below).

How to Access This Service

To be included on the register, which is then in force from the 1st December for a year, the Council must have received a completed, and updated as necessary, canvass form. For a printable copy of this form please download the Electoral Registration Form.

Canvass forms are delivered from Mid-August to early September. Reminder forms are sent in September and October. During this period you can register by returning the form freepost, ringing the freephone number advertised on the form; sending an SMS text message or by registering on-line at the external link below. The ability to make a return by freephone, text or on-line ends at the end of November each year when we publish the revised register.

From January to September each year the Electoral Registration Office at the Council can add, delete and amend details. See below under Rolling Registration how it is added to the Register during this period.

Links

Changes to Electoral Registration

Two Versions of the Register

The Choice You Have to Make

Rolling Registration

PDF Document: Monthly Revisions Timetable to Rolling Registration (78KB)

PDF Document: Cost of purchasing the Register 2009-10 (40KB)

PDF Document: Register of Electors Policy (611KB)

PDF Document: Customer Charter (99KB)

PDF Document: Electoral Register Statistics 2005/06 (62KB)

PDF Document: Electoral Register Statistics 2006/07 (63KB)

PDF Document: Electoral Register Statistics 2007/8 (8KB)