Renewing your postal vote

Postal Voters

This is just to give you advance notice that the Wealden Electoral Services Team will be sending emails to 15,300 postal voters over the next few months. The email will be sent via our Gov.UK Notify account and a copy is shown below as part of this email trail. If any constituents contact you about this and are worried, please reassure them that the email is genuine or encourage them to contact the Electoral Services Team (01892 602407 or elections@wealden.gov.uk).

The implementation of the Elections Act 2022 means that a postal vote arrangement cannot last longer than three years. 2025 is a transitional year for the Postal Vote Renewal Process and the majority of our postal voters will fall into the Renewal Process this year. Overall, we have 22,700 postal voters (we have email addresses for approx. 15,000) to contact before the end of January 2026. If these electors want to continue to vote by post, they will need to reapply by 31 January 2026.

To try and ‘flatten the peaks’ and reduce the number of letters and forms that will need to be sent, returned and manually processed, the Team are hoping that the email will encourage voters to reapply early and online.

The emails will be sent in batches by District Ward – the first batch (Arlington Ward) will be sent over the weekend of 10/11 May 2025.