In this edition...

  • 2024 Canvass data collection
  • New online resources - EU citizens voting and candidacy rights changes
  • Secondment opportunity - performance standards

2024 canvass: information about collection of electoral registration data  

As you know, each year the Commission collects electoral registration data from EROs following the annual canvass and the publication of the revised electoral registers. This data plays an important role in our reporting on electoral registration in Great Britain and helps us to demonstrate how canvass processes have been working in practice.  
We have been working with the electoral management software (EMS) suppliers to ensure that the data is available in your systems. We will be asking for the same canvass data as in 2023. There will be a separate data collection exercise in February 2025 for the EUVR data.  
We will be in touch by email soon to request the data and we will confirm at that stage how the relevant reports can be generated.  We would like to thank you in advance for your support with this work and for the time taken to supply the data to us. 

New resources - EU citizens voting and candidacy rights changes

There have been changes to the voting and candidacy rights of some EU citizens.  If you’re an EU citizen living in the UK, whether you can vote depends on the type of election and your citizenship. The first scheduled elections these changes will apply to in England are the local elections in May 2025. 


More information, including a tool EU citizens can use to find out which elections they can vote in, can be found here
 

Partnership resources available
To help you raise voters’ awareness of these changes, we have produced a range of resources.  These include:

  • A5 Flyer
  • Social media graphics
  • Facebook/Insta/X – post and story
  • Whatsapp - graphic
  • Social media copy
  • FAQs

If you have any questions on our partner resources, please contact [email protected]  

 

Electoral Commission secondment opportunity

We are looking for an elections professional who has experience of working with the RO and ERO Performance Standards to join us between January and March 2025 on a secondment basis as Performance Standards Engagement Lead. 

The role will involve engaging with peers across the electoral sector in England, Wales and Scotland to find out how the standards are being used and what could be improved.  

It’s a unique opportunity to help shape the Commission’s performance standards and make improvements to a key resource that enables electoral administrators to deliver well-run elections. You will get the opportunity to gain insight and experience working for a regulator.  

To find out more and for information about the role and how to apply, please visit our website here