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If you were enrolled by 12 August, your local council will send your voting papers in the mail. You should receive your voting papers from 16-21 September.

If you weren't enrolled at your current address by 12 August, or if you're on the unpublished roll, your council won't automatically send your voting papers. You will need to contact your council to make a special vote.

Contact your local council's electoral officer (Vote 2022 Local Elections)

If you were enrolled at your current address by 12 August, your council will send your voting papers between 16-21 September.

If you don't receive your voting papers, you should contact your council's electoral officer.

Contact your local council's electoral officer (Vote 2022 Local Elections)

You also need to check you're enrolled, and update your details if you've changed address. You need to be correctly enrolled by midnight on 7 October for your vote to count.

Enrol or update online

Voting papers for the local body elections can't be downloaded, and can't be returned electronically. If you are living overseas, and you provided an overseas postal address when you enrolled or updated your enrolment, your council will send your voting papers by mail.

Contact your council's electoral officer (Vote 2022 Local Elections)

Local councils are responsible for running local elections. The best person to contact with questions about the rules for a local election is the Electoral Officer for the council concerned.

You can find a list of Electoral Officers for each council on the Vote 2022 Local Elections website:

Electoral Officers (Vote 2022 Local Elections)

The Electoral Commission runs Parliamentary elections, but we do not run or oversee the local elections. Our role in the local elections is to provide up-to-date electoral roll information to councils and support enrolment.

Answers to most common questions about local elections are available on the Vote 2022 Local Elections website:

Information for Voters (Vote 2022 Local Elections)

If you don't receive your voting papers

If you were enrolled by 12 August, your local council will send your voting papers in the mail. You should receive your voting papers from 16-21 September.

If you don't receive your voting papers, you should contact your council's electoral officer.

Contact your local council's electoral officer (Vote 2022 Local Elections)

You also need to check you're enrolled, and update your details if you've changed address. You need to be correctly enrolled by midnight on 7 October for your vote to count.

Enrol or update online

It's easy to enrol, check or update your enrolment details.

Find out how

If you’ve changed your address but haven’t let us know, or if you’ve never enrolled to vote, you may have received a letter asking “Are you enrolled at your current address?”. If you receive this letter, you may need to enrol or update your enrolment.

You can enrol or update online, or give us a call on 0800 36 76 56.

Review the 2020 General Election statistics and results

Find out how to make a request to us under the Official Information Act (OIA)

We proactively release all OIA requests we receive, and our responses to them, on a quarterly basis.

Reponses to OIA requests