Service voters, Crown servants and Overseas electors

Service voters

If you are overseas in the Armed Forces then you are entitled to vote in General, Local and European elections in the UK. An application lasts for 3 years and we will write to you 3 months before your registration is due to expire to allow you renew your application.

Crown servants

If you work for Her Majesty’s Government then you are entitled to vote in General, Local and European elections in the UK. An application lasts 1 year and we will write to you 3 months before your registration is due to expire.

Overseas electors

If you are a British citizen living outside the United Kingdom for longer than six months of the year you may be able to register as an overseas elector. This will enable you vote at General and European elections.

To register as an overseas elector you must be a British citizen and meet one of two sets of conditions:

• Your name was previously on the electoral register for an address in the UK; and
• There are no more than 15 years between the qualification date of that register and the date on your application to register as an overseas elector.

Or

• You have reached the age of 18 whilst living abroad.
• You were too young to be on the electoral roll before you left the UK; or
• A parent or guardian was on that electoral register for the address at which you were living on that date.

An application lasts 1 year and we will write to you 3 months before your registration is due to expire.

All forms, once completed, should be sent to the address below.