Register to vote

You have some choice about who can buy details of your name and address. There are two versions of the register: the edited version and the full version.

When you fill in your voter registration form, you will be able to choose whether you want your details included in the edited register.

The full register lists everyone who is entitled to vote including those who have chosen not to appear on the edited register and is not for sale for commercial purposes. Only certain people and organisations can have or purchase copies of the full register, and they can only use it for electoral purposes, the prevention and detection of crime and checking your identity when you have applied for credit. It is a criminal offence for them to pass this information on to anyone else or to use it for any other purpose.

The edited register can be sold to anybody and used for any purpose. You can choose not to appear on this register by ticking the relevant box on the voter registration form.  

The cost of the register for a paper copy is £10 plus £5 per 1,000 names. The cost in data format is £20 plus £1.50 per 1,000 names. The total cost payable will depend on how many names appear on the register for the area a person is purchasing. This can range from the largest area being the whole of Wandsworth to the smallest being a polling district within Wandsworth.

The cost of the full register is the same as for the edited register.

The Council does not have a say in how much the register costs to purchase. The cost is set out in the "Representation of the People" Acts and is the same across the United Kingdom.