Apply for a postal vote Performance dashboard

Our Apply for a postal vote performance dashboard shows anonymous application statistics, user satisfaction and service availability

Live service usage

Postal vote applications submitted in a 5-minute period

0 applications in the last 5 minutes

Last 24 hours - applications per 5 minutes

Time Online applications
3:30am 0
3:25am 1
3:20am 0
3:15am 0
3:10am 1
3:05am 0

Applications breakdown

30 Jun 2026 3,040 total applications submitted on this day

Application breakdown graphs

Applications per day

Applications per day

Applications per week

Date Online Paper forms
30 Jun 2026 2,262 778
29 Jun 2026 1,956 858
28 Jun 2026 682 36
27 Jun 2026 818 0
26 Jun 2026 1,199 536
25 Jun 2026 950 512

Applications online

Applications submitted online (instead of by paper forms)

1 to 30 Jun 2026 59%
Month Applications online
1 to 30 Jun 2026 59%
1 to 31 May 2026 55%
1 to 30 Apr 2026 73%
1 to 31 Mar 2026 46%
1 to 28 Feb 2026 44%
1 to 31 Jan 2026 39%

Applications by age group

Data is for all applications (online and paper)

Date Under 25 25 to 34 35 to 44 45 to 54 55 to 64 65 to 74 Over 75
30 Jun 2026 192 300 390 449 574 579 555
29 Jun 2026 200 255 374 446 499 524 515
28 Jun 2026 70 101 98 131 110 114 94
27 Jun 2026 66 84 113 140 143 136 136
26 Jun 2026 117 135 198 233 344 336 371
25 Jun 2026 101 153 197 229 263 278 238

Applications by nation

Data is for all applications (online and paper)

Date England Scotland Wales
30 Jun 2026 2,417 55 568
29 Jun 2026 2,131 58 625
28 Jun 2026 680 1 37
27 Jun 2026 812 4 2
26 Jun 2026 1,326 48 361
25 Jun 2026 1,145 76 241

User satisfaction

Overall satisfaction score (100% = 'very satisfied'; 0% = 'very dissatisfied')

Week beginning 22 Jun 2026 90%
Week beginning Satisfaction Very dissatisfied Dissatisfied Neither satisfied
or dissatisfied
Satisfied Very satisfied
22 Jun 2026 90% 0 1 2 15 36
15 Jun 2026 92% 0 1 1 11 36
8 Jun 2026 95% 0 0 0 6 23
1 Jun 2026 92% 0 1 1 12 38
25 May 2026 91% 1 0 0 3 16
18 May 2026 90% 1 0 2 5 25

Service availability in last 30 days

30 Jun 2026 100%
Date Response time (in milliseconds) Availability
30 Jun 2026 561 100%
29 Jun 2026 578 100%
28 Jun 2026 590 100%
27 Jun 2026 597 100%
26 Jun 2026 578 100%
25 Jun 2026 536 100%

Service availability in last 24 hours

2:00am 100%
Time Response time (in milliseconds) Availability
2:00am 607 100%
1:00am 557 100%
12:00am 546 100%
11:00pm 571 100%
10:00pm 546 100%
9:00pm 555 100%

You can use this service to apply to vote by post. This is instead of voting at a polling station or having someone vote on your behalf (voting by proxy).

For the:

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

User:

Individuals who want to vote by post

Service costs paid by:

Department budget