Running electoral registration - Wales

Senedd and local government elections         

Electors with a postal vote for a particular Senedd or local government poll may not alter their postal vote delivery details but may submit a fresh application with a new address for the postal vote to be sent to.1  

Existing postal voters with a longer-term postal vote arrangement may ask for their postal vote to be redirected at any time up until 5pm, 11 working days before a poll to be effective at that poll.2 The exception to this is where the completed postal ballot paper has already been returned by the elector for the poll.

The request must be made in writing and may be posted, hand-delivered or emailed to you and must contain:3

• the elector’s full name and registered address
• the redirection address
• the circumstances that require, or will require, the redirection
• the date of the request

Any request to have postal ballot papers redirected must (unless they are an anonymously registered elector) must set out why they require their ballot paper to be sent to that address.4

For UK Parliamentary elections and Police and Crime Commissioner elections resulting from the UK Parliamentary arrangement

Electors with a postal vote for a particular poll may not alter their postal vote delivery details but may submit a fresh application with a new address for the postal vote to be sent to.

Existing postal voters with a longer-term postal vote arrangement may ask for their postal vote to be redirected at any time up until 5pm, 11 working days before a poll to be effective at that poll.5 The exception to this is where the completed postal ballot paper has already been returned by the elector for the poll.

The request must be made in writing and may be posted, hand-delivered or emailed to you and must contain:6    

• the elector’s full name and registered address
• the redirection address
• the circumstances that require, or will require, the redirection
• the date of the request

Where a request for redirection has been granted, you must confirm this to the elector in writing at their registered address.7