You have until Friday 21 August, 2020 to get yourself on the Guernsey Electoral Roll.
You can sign up to the Electoral Roll at election2020.gg . If you have any problems with the online form, you can get in touch with the team here and they will do what they can to help you.
You must sign up again, even if you have been on the Electoral Roll for past elections. If you don’t sign up, you won’t be allowed to vote in the 2020 Election, and you won’t be allowed to stand as a candidate.
Please don’t leave it until the last minute!
You will be able to vote for up to 38 candidates in this Election – our first experience of Island-Wide Voting. In past Elections, you only had 5 or 6 votes. This is a big change – it means a lot more manifestos to read, a lot more candidates to consider, and possibly a lot more time spent deciding who you want to vote for.
This means we are trying to offer more options for the way you cast your vote, to give you the time and space you need.
You’ll have the option of voting in your parish on Election Day, just like you’ve always done. Or you might want to vote at an island-wide “Super Polling Station” closer to your workplace or school, if that is more convenient for you.
If you would prefer, you can vote at an “Advance Polling Station” before Election Day (at the weekend and on the Tuesday before the final Election Day on the Wednesday). Or you can sign up for a postal vote, fill it out at home, and send it or drop it back in.
You can get in touch with the Electoral Roll team to request a postal vote, even if you didn’t ask for one when you originally signed up to the Roll.
More information about polling station venues and voting options will be available on election2020.gg. If we need to take any special measures because of COVID-19, closer to Election time, election2020.gg will also be the place to look for information about that.
If you don’t sign up to the Electoral Roll, you don’t have a vote and you don’t have a right to stand in the Election.
Please encourage your friends and family to sign up to the Electoral Roll if they haven’t yet done so.
And please register to vote today.
Go back to Getting Into Guernsey Politics
Go back to Section 1.1: Making the Decision
Register to Vote
