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

54 applications in the last 5 minutes

Last 24 hours - applications per 5 minutes

Time Online applications
1:20pm 54
1:15pm 54
1:10pm 48
1:05pm 60
1:00pm 69
12:55pm 56

Applications breakdown

31 Mar 2026 11,389 total applications submitted on this day

Application breakdown graphs

Applications per day

Applications per day

Applications per week

Date Online Paper forms
31 Mar 2026 7,800 3,589
30 Mar 2026 8,424 3,883
29 Mar 2026 4,392 199
28 Mar 2026 4,204 52
27 Mar 2026 4,683 2,491
26 Mar 2026 3,860 3,178

Applications online

Applications submitted online (instead of by paper forms)

1 to 31 Mar 2026 46%
Month Applications online
1 to 31 Mar 2026 46%
1 to 28 Feb 2026 44%
1 to 31 Jan 2026 39%
1 to 31 Dec 2025 38%
1 to 30 Nov 2025 40%
1 to 31 Oct 2025 46%

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
31 Mar 2026 927 1,284 1,208 1,316 2,226 2,242 2,177
30 Mar 2026 966 1,344 1,391 1,492 2,304 2,435 2,374
29 Mar 2026 441 635 657 673 903 771 510
28 Mar 2026 399 584 576 547 821 752 577
27 Mar 2026 466 685 802 885 1,366 1,492 1,475
26 Mar 2026 493 646 681 842 1,365 1,417 1,586

Applications by nation

Data is for all applications (online and paper)

Date England Scotland Wales
31 Mar 2026 10,343 659 387
30 Mar 2026 10,880 1,051 376
29 Mar 2026 4,487 87 17
28 Mar 2026 4,158 79 19
27 Mar 2026 6,142 492 540
26 Mar 2026 5,754 564 720

User satisfaction

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

Week beginning 23 Mar 2026 91%
Week beginning Satisfaction Very dissatisfied Dissatisfied Neither satisfied
or dissatisfied
Satisfied Very satisfied
23 Mar 2026 91% 3 3 9 49 182
16 Mar 2026 93% 0 1 4 22 89
9 Mar 2026 93% 1 1 1 22 81
2 Mar 2026 91% 0 1 1 29 65
23 Feb 2026 91% 4 3 6 52 172
16 Feb 2026 92% 1 11 9 67 273

Service availability in last 30 days

31 Mar 2026 100%
Date Response time (in milliseconds) Availability
31 Mar 2026 482 100%
30 Mar 2026 476 100%
29 Mar 2026 505 100%
28 Mar 2026 511 100%
27 Mar 2026 508 100%
26 Mar 2026 503 100%

Service availability in last 24 hours

12:00pm 100%
Time Response time (in milliseconds) Availability
12:00pm 474 100%
11:00am 489 100%
10:00am 497 100%
9:00am 475 100%
8:00am 489 100%
7:00am 514 100%

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