Special category electors
Special arrangements apply to some electors, including those who do not meet the usual residence qualification:
- Overseas electors, British citizens living outside the UK
- HM forces service voters and their spouses or civil partners
- Crown servants and British Council employees and their spouses or civil partners
- People experiencing homelessness electors who have a local connection, but who have no permanent address or fixed address
- Anonymously registered electors, those who can register anonymously because their safety would be at risk if they appeared on the register using their name
- Patients in mental health hospitals whose stay at the hospital is sufficient for them to be regarded as resident there
- Remand prisoners whose stay at a penal institution is sufficient for them to be regarded as resident there
As well as providing the same information as ordinary electors in their application to register, special category applicants must provide additional specific information through a declaration to register as a special category elector.
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