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.
Click on any of the links on the left of the page to read more about our public awareness campaigns.
2010 election campaign
We are currently evaluating our public awareness campaign for the 2010 elections and will shortly be posting information on the successes as well as key learnings from the campaign.
- Register to vote on our About My Vote site
DVD on registering to vote
We have put together a short DVD explaining electoral registration. The film covers why you'd want to register and how to fill in the registration form, in a light and humorous way. It's ideal for use in schools, community groups and youth clubs and is suitable for a range of different groups, including young people and people with lower literacy levels. It also has subtitles in 14 different languages and a BSL version to ensure that it is as widely accessible as possible.
For more information, visit the Do Politics Centre, our online idea and resource hub for democracy practitioners.
You can watch the videos below:
English versions:
