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

18 applications in the last 5 minutes

Last 24 hours - applications per 5 minutes

Time Online applications
11:45am 18
11:40am 18
11:35am 18
11:30am 10
11:25am 17
11:20am 17

Applications breakdown

14 Aug 2026 2,967 total applications submitted on this day

Application breakdown graphs

Applications per day

Applications per day

Applications per week

Date Online Paper forms
14 Aug 2026 2,343 624
13 Aug 2026 2,774 806
12 Aug 2026 3,391 1,072
11 Aug 2026 3,493 1,068
10 Aug 2026 2,956 994
9 Aug 2026 1,508 1

Applications online

Applications submitted online (instead of by paper forms)

1 to 31 Jul 2026 82%
Month Applications online
1 to 31 Jul 2026 82%
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%

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
14 Aug 2026 247 214 329 471 567 538 598
13 Aug 2026 233 264 419 517 633 726 785
12 Aug 2026 324 335 499 620 891 944 847
11 Aug 2026 302 349 524 630 923 907 923
10 Aug 2026 275 318 504 564 810 720 755
9 Aug 2026 120 126 210 245 295 274 239

Applications by nation

Data is for all applications (online and paper)

Date England Scotland Wales
14 Aug 2026 2,864 69 34
13 Aug 2026 3,388 146 46
12 Aug 2026 4,216 110 137
11 Aug 2026 4,273 136 152
10 Aug 2026 3,650 173 127
9 Aug 2026 1,474 23 12

User satisfaction

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

Week beginning 3 Aug 2026 85%
Week beginning Satisfaction Very dissatisfied Dissatisfied Neither satisfied
or dissatisfied
Satisfied Very satisfied
3 Aug 2026 85% 5 12 13 43 142
27 Jul 2026 91% 1 5 9 31 148
20 Jul 2026 87% 5 8 6 38 124
13 Jul 2026 87% 2 9 9 35 119
6 Jul 2026 89% 1 4 7 23 87
29 Jun 2026 91% 2 5 5 32 129

Service availability in last 30 days

14 Aug 2026 100%
Date Response time (in milliseconds) Availability
14 Aug 2026 560 100%
13 Aug 2026 580 100%
12 Aug 2026 542 100%
11 Aug 2026 541 100%
10 Aug 2026 565 100%
9 Aug 2026 591 100%

Service availability in last 24 hours

10:00am 100%
Time Response time (in milliseconds) Availability
10:00am 550 100%
9:00am 546 100%
8:00am 566 100%
7:00am 574 100%
6:00am 592 100%
5:00am 580 100%

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