Citizens of European Union Member States i.e. Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden, can automatically vote at local council elections by completing the Registration form delivered to every property in the District in September each year.

However, if you are a European Citizen and wish to vote at European Parliamentary Elections, you must also complete the form available for downloading from the right hand side this page. If this form is not completed and returned you will only be able to vote at Local Elections.

If you can vote in your home member state at European elections, you must choose between voting there or in the UK. Applying to vote in your UK constituency means that you cannot vote in the same European election in your home member state. The application form therefore asks you to declare that, if you vote, it will be in the UK only. You are also asked to give the name of any locality or constituency in your home member state in which you were registered to vote.

If you wish to vote in your home Member state instead of the UK, then of course you need to do nothing beyond what your home Member State requires.

British Citizens, other Commonwealth Citizens and Citizens of the Republic of Ireland do not need to complete this form!

The Government has no plans to extend voting rights to UK Parliamentary Elections (elections to the House of Commons at Westminster).