Here’s everything you need to know if you wish to cast your ballot at a polling station at the elections on Thursday 6 May 2021.
Poll cards
Your official poll card contains details of when and where you will need to go to vote. You can also find this information via our Postcode search.
Please remember to check to make sure that you will be going to the correct polling station – it may be in a different building to the one you have used for previous elections.
Depending on when you register to vote, we will send your poll card to you from about a month before election day. They will be delivered by the Royal Mail to the address at which you are registered.
For the May 2021 elections, registered voters will receive either one or two poll cards, depending on which ballots they are eligible to take part in:
Here’s how we will be sending the poll cards out for this election:
Stage one (from 29 March)
Stage two (from 2 April):
Stage three (from 20 April):
Polling day
On Thursday 6 May, polling stations will be open from 7am until 10pm.
Please remember to check to make sure that you will be going to the correct polling station – it may be in a different building to the one you have used for previous elections.
You do not need to bring your poll card with you to cast your ballot, however it may speed things up if you do.
Our friendly poll clerks at your polling station will explain what to do if you’ve never voted before.
Remember to read your ballot paper carefully as you may be able to vote for more than one person.
Keeping our polling stations Covid-safe
On 6 May all our polling stations will have measures in place to help ensure the area remains safe from Covid-19. This will include:
To help keep yourself and others safe at the polling station, you must:
If you would feel uncomfortable voting in person there are different ways you can cast your vote – by post, or by appointing someone you trust to do this on your behalf, which is known as a proxy vote.