The Electoral Register

The electoral register is a list of all those residents in the borough who are eligible to vote in various elections.

If you are not on the register, you cannot vote!

The register is compiled during the autumn by an annual canvass of all households within the borough, and is published each year on 1 December.

Once published the register is updated on the first working day of each month, under a rolling registration scheme which stops when the annual canvass starts again each mid-August.

To find out how to register, see the Registering to Vote link on the left.

If you are not an Islington resident please note that you cannot register as a voter with this council. Instead view the About My Vote link under Useful Websites on the right. This will take you to a website which will inform you of your council’s address to which you can send the registration form you can download from that website. This site also includes applications in a number of other languages, as well as large print, audio and Braille.

Opting-Out: Two Registers

The registration officer is required to make and keep two versions of the register:

The full version of the register contains the names of all eligible electors within Islington. Only certain persons and organisations are allowed to have copies of this and can only use it for specified purposes, including electoral purposes, the prevention and the detection of crime and checking your identity when you have applied for credit. It is an offence for them to pass information from the register of electors on to an unauthorised individual or group or to use it for any other purpose. This version can only be inspected, under supervision, at the town hall.

The edited version of the register leaves out the names of electors who have asked for them to be excluded from this version, and it may be purchased by anyone for any purpose, including direct marketing. The edited register can be inspected at any library in the borough.

Although we ask for telephone numbers on applications, these are never revealed to anyone else- they are only used to contact you if we have a question regarding the application.

Check that you are registered to vote

You can inspect the edited register at any of the borough libraries. However the full register can only be viewed, under supervision, at the Town Hall. 

Please note:

• Anyone inspecting the register may only make a hand written notes.

• The register is not an alphabetical listing of electors. The registers are arranged by ward, in alphabetical street order with names of electors appearing against each property.

• Telephone queries to the election services office will only be carried out against the edited register.

• Over half of the electors in the borough have stated that they only wish to appear in the full register, access to which is restricted by law.