Electoral Commission Chair calls for deeper citizenship educationAt the Electoral Reform Society we have long called for the right to vote to be extended to 16 and 17 year olds. Far too many people don’t vote, and research has shown that 16...Posted 26 Aug 2025
We told the Welsh Government our suggestions for how to remove barriers to votingSince elections were devolved to Wales in the Wales Act 2017 there have been a lot of changes for Welsh democracy. We’ve seen the extension of the franchise to 16 and 17 year olds and...Posted 31 Jan 2023
Teaching politics in our schools should be a necessity not an optionNext year’s Senedd election will see 16 and 17 year olds in Wales be able to vote for the first time in our nation’s history. This move has the potential to be game-changing, but when...Posted 03 Nov 2020
Manifesto for Democracy: Education for the futureEducation is key to ensuring that newly enfranchised voters understand the system they can now have a voice in. That 16 and 17 year olds in Wales can now vote in Senedd elections offers us...Posted 29 Oct 2020
Citizenship education paves the way for votes at 16With Wales looking to equalise their voting age with Scotland for local elections at 16, we asked our work experience student Carla to explain what impact the citizenship education classes she’d recent completed would have...Posted 19 Jul 2017