Do not lose your postal poll – act now

4 November 2025

Voters are being urged to behave now – in the event that they don’t wish to lose their postal vote.

The Elections Act 2022 has launched modifications to the postal vote utility course of – which implies folks eligible to vote, referred to as electors, have to reapply earlier than 31 January to maintain their postal poll registration.

All registered postal voters who utilized for his or her postal vote previous to 30 January 2024 are required to make a recent utility earlier than the 31 January 2026. A postal vote will now solely be legitimate for a most of three years.

The Electoral Registration Officer has contacted affected Cheshire East electors, who’re at the moment registered for a postal vote, to request that they re-apply for a postal vote in the event that they nonetheless want to vote by put up. 

Eligible voters who haven’t re-applied for a postal vote are actually being despatched an additional reminder by e mail, to allow them to know that they should re-apply earlier than 31 January 2026, or their present postal vote shall be cancelled. These emails shall be despatched utilizing central authorities’s Gov.UK Notify communications system.

Electors can reapply for a postal vote online. The e mail reminder will comprise additional particulars of easy methods to apply, together with a helpline quantity for any queries.

If any elector fails to answer a postal vote reapplication notification by 31 January, they are going to be faraway from the listing of postal voters. 

More details about voting and elections is accessible on our elections webpages.