Help for Disabled Voters

We attempt to make all our polling stations wheelchair accessible and can provide ramps where necessary.

In addition to this:

• All polling stations have a polling booth adapted for wheelchair users
• Large print versions of ballot paper(s) are available in every polling station, along with aids to enable blind voters to mark their ballot papers without help
• Audio ballot papers
• If you are a Disabled voter and you need support to complete a ballot paper on your own, you can take a friend or relative to the polling station to assist you
• The Presiding Officer at the polling station can help you fill in your ballot paper
• Tactile Voting Device for people with a visual impairment
• Large Magnifers
• Pencil grips
• Chairs for people who cannot stand for long periods 

If you don't want to go to the polling station to vote, you can vote by post, and voters with a disability can have a permanent proxy vote (this is where you nominate someone to vote on your behalf at your polling station).

Postal or Proxy voting forms

Guidance and application forms for postal and proxy voting are available to download from the Electoral Commission website or by contacting Electoral Services.

Information for Disabled voters

All voters have a right to vote independently and in secret. Local authorities in Great Britain now must take proactive steps to ensure that polling stations don't disadvantage Disabled people.

Read more about disabled people's voting rights.

Mencap have provided a resource pack to help people with a learning disability better understand voting and politics.

Gov.uk has information to help people with a learning disability (PWLD) and their support workers to understand what voting is, why it is so important, and how you can vote.