Friday 11th April should be the last time electors had to actively register to voteThe deadline to register to vote in the local elections on 1 May was 11 April. Last February we estimated that 8.2 million voters were missing or incorrectly registered on the electoral roll across England,...Posted 13 Apr 2025
ERS in the Press – Coverage we’ve secured in the GE campaignYou might have noticed that there’s a general election approaching. Whilst the date of the election may have taken us all a little by surprise, the ERS communications team were ready to go and making...Posted 25 Jun 2024
Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee publish welcome electoral registration reportLast week, the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee published a new report on Electoral Registration. Even though electoral registration is mandatory, millions of people are missing from the electoral register, and the ERS has...Posted 26 Mar 2024
ERS reveals constituencies with the most potential missing voters – is yours on the list?Analysis by the Electoral Reform Society has revealed that an estimated 8.2 million eligible voters are missing from the electoral register in England, Scotland and Wales. If moved onto the register this huge figure has...Posted 07 Feb 2024
Electoral Commission estimate 8 million missing from electoral rollThis week, the Electoral Commission published a report highlighting how millions of people are missing from Britain’s electoral registers. The report details how up to 8 million people are not correctly registered and are at...Posted 21 Sep 2023
Early indications suggest Welsh voting pilots went wellIn May’s local elections, four areas in Wales trialled a different way of voting – allowing people to cast their vote before election day. As well as polling stations being open on the Thursday 5...Posted 05 Aug 2022
The government has a chance to right a major electoral injustice on TuesdayAs it stands, the new constituency boundaries will not take into account roughly nine million people who aren’t on the register.Posted 09 Nov 2020
This simple change could help bring in the ‘missing millions’Rather than putting up bureaucratic barriers to engaging with politics, we should be ensuring everyone can use their vote.Posted 15 Oct 2020
Parties can back this simple change today to help bring in the ‘missing millions’A cross-party group of peers are backing an amendment to improve the accuracy of the electoral register setting out new ways to include 16 and 17- year olds on the nationwide list – so they...Posted 08 Oct 2020
Britain’s voter registration system is leaving millions on the sidelinesThey’ve been called the ‘missing millions’: over 9 million eligible people in Great Britain are currently not on the electoral roll. Posted 18 Sep 2020