Register to vote

We will contact your household

Every year, we are required by law to contact your household to find out any changes to who is eligible to be registered to vote at your address. We will contact your household from July.

Your household will receive one of the following:

• a confirmation letter addressed to 'The Occupier' by post. You will be asked to check the names of people living at your address. You only need to respond if you need to make a change or update the information printed on the letter, or
• a canvass form addressed to the 'The Occupier' by post. This form will ask you to confirm who is eligible to vote in your household. By law, you must respond to this form and provide the information requested, or
• an email or a text - if you have provided an email address or a mobile number to Electoral Services you may get an email or a text. The email will be sent from the email address, slough.electoral.services@notifications.service.gov.uk - this is a genuine email sent on behalf of the Elections Team.

Please note, there is a criminal penalty for failing to provide the information required when requested to do so by the Electoral Registration Officer of a maximum of £1,000. The penalty for providing false information to an Electoral Registration Officer is imprisonment of up to 51 weeks or, (on summary conviction) an unlimited fine.

Please email ballotbox@slough.gov.uk if you have any questions regarding the communication(s) you receive from us,

How to respond

To confirm or update the details for your household:

• go to the householdresponse website - in the login page, please enter both parts of the security code that is on the letter, canvass form or email you would have received (please note your email address may not be the only one in the household we have made contact with - if the codes do not work, it is likely that another member of the household has already responded).
• if there are no changes to the details (where you are asked to confirm the details we have are correct), you can also respond by:
  • texting NOCHANGE followed by Part 1 and Part 2 of your security code to 80212 (standard charges apply) or 
  • call 0800 884 0701.

If you have any questions about how to respond to the letter, form or email you have received, please email ballotbox@slough.gov.uk

New residents at your address need to apply to register

Each new resident at your address whose details were provided to us in response to the letter, canvass form or email your household received must complete an application to register to vote at your address.

Any new resident at your address who does not register as soon as possible will receive a letter or email from us to formally invite them to register to vote at your address.

Please note it is a legal requirement to register to vote when invited by the Electoral Registration Officer to do so. A person failing to register without an adequate reason may be fined £80.

Please do not register to vote if your name is on the list of names once you have logged onto your address via the houshold response Slough site. You do not need to do this, as you are already registered to vote.

Please email ballotbox@slough.gov.uk if you have any questions about registering to vote.