We run public awareness campaigns to promote voter registration and provide information on electoral events. This area contains information about the various public awareness campaigns we have carried out recently.
All of our public awareness work is underpinned by research. This ensures that what we do is based on sound evidence and takes account of what the public think, and know, about politics and voting. It helps us to understand why people don't register to vote and allows us to target our work to different audiences.
Our public awareness role is set out in more detail in Section 13 of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000.
5 May 2011 - elections and referendum
On 5 May, voters went to the polls across the UK to vote in the National Assembly for Wales elections, the Scottish Parliamentary election, the Northern Ireland Assembly and local elections and local elecitons in some parts of England as well as the referendum on the system used to elect MPs.
