Pendle News Room

If you’re unable to vote in person in the Pendle Borough Council and Town/Parish Council elections, now’s the time to request your postal or proxy vote.

Having a postal vote or sending someone else to the polling station as a proxy to vote on your behalf, means you can still have your say in elections. 

Andrea Mullin, Elections and Registration Manager, said: “If you’d like to vote by post or by proxy this year and you haven’t already set this up, you’ll need to request this soon.  

“You can apply for postal or proxy votes for a single election on a specific date, a specific period or permanently.”

The deadline for postal vote applications is 5pm on Tuesday 18 April and for proxy vote applications it’s 5pm on Tuesday 25 April. 

Application forms to appoint a proxy or to request a postal vote are available to download from Pendle Borough Council’s website - www.pendle.gov.uk/absentvoters   

Forms can also be requested from our Elections Office at Nelson Town Hall - call (01282) 661662 or email elections@pendle.gov.uk

Rose Rouse, Pendle Borough Council’s Returning Officer and Chief Executive, said: “This year anyone who votes in person needs to show an accepted form of photo ID.

“This includes anyone who is voting on behalf of someone else as a proxy voter.”

Accepted forms of ID are: 

• Passport  
• Driving licence (including provisional licence)  
• Blue badge  
• Certain concessionary travel cards  
• Identity card with PASS mark (Proof of Age Standards Scheme)  
• Biometric immigration document  
• Defence identity card  
• Certain national identity cards 

Rose added: “You can still use your photo ID if it’s out of date, as long as it looks like you. 

“If you don’t have photo ID you can apply for a free Voter Authority Certificate.”

You can apply for a Voter Authority Certificate online via www.pendle.gov.uk/voterID or you can request a paper copy by calling Pendle Borough Council’s Elections Team on (01282) 661662 or 661919 or emailing elections@pendle.gov.uk