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.
To view any electoral maps click
here.
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).
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.
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)
PDF Document: Electoral Register Statistics 2008/9
(8KB)
PDF Document: Electoral Register Statistics
2009/10 (8KB)
Electoral Registration Enquiries
Telephone: (01902) 696121
Fax: (01902) 696800
Email: elections@sstaffs.gov.uk