Voter Registration Form

Before proceeding you are advised of the following matters:

Who is eligible to vote?

  • You must be 16 years of age or older to register to vote. If you will be 18 at the time of the next election you will need to add your date of birth to the Voter Registration Form
  • You will be a British, Commonwealth, Irish or EU citizen living in the Bedford Borough area.

Please select the following link to view a list of nationalities who are eligible to vote.

Nationalities Eligible to Register to Vote

To use this form you will need your National Insurance Number, your date of birth and your nationality.

Terms and Conditions

  1. The Electoral Registration Officer has a statutory duty under section 9A of the Representation of the People Act 1983 to ‘take all steps that are necessary for the purpose of complying with his duty to maintain the registers’. Section 69 of the Electoral Administration Act 2006 also places a statutory duty on the Electoral Registration Officer to ‘take such steps as he thinks appropriate to encourage the participation by electors in the electoral process in the area for which he acts’.
  2. Any recorded and/or processed information on this site in the course of providing the Electoral Registration Function, will at all times comply with all applicable legislation, regulations, and other rules having equivalent force including the Data Protection Act and the data protection principles referred to in the Data Protection Act, and may be used for the prevention and detection of crime.
  3. This site has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of any material under our control. However, we accept no responsibility for alteration, manipulation or interpretation of our data once placed on the World Wide Web.
  4. For information, the World Wide Web is subject to change without notice.
  5. Where we provide links to sites, we do not by doing so endorse any information or opinions appearing in them. We accept no liability whatsoever over the availability of linked pages.
  6. The information here is protected by copyright. You must not reproduce any graphics or substantial amounts of text without our written permission. You should address such requests to: Bedford Borough Council Communications, Floor 3, Borough Hall, Bedford Borough Council, Cauldwell Street, Bedford, MK42 9AP.
  7. The Electoral Registration Office will retain personal data submitted through this site for approximately one year. However, data submitted through this site may be transferred to the Electoral Registration Officers other systems for maintaining the register of electors and may be retained indefinitely.

Next