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

3 applications in the last 5 minutes

Last 24 hours - applications per 5 minutes

Time Online applications
9:15pm 3
9:10pm 3
9:05pm 5
9:00pm 0
8:55pm 2
8:50pm 4

Applications breakdown

4 Sep 2026 3,503 total applications submitted on this day

Application breakdown graphs

Applications per day

Applications per day

Applications per week

Date Online Paper forms
4 Sep 2026 2,765 738
3 Sep 2026 2,931 1,092
2 Sep 2026 2,909 1,147
1 Sep 2026 2,896 993
31 Aug 2026 1,529 164
30 Aug 2026 1,312 0

Applications online

Applications submitted online (instead of by paper forms)

1 to 31 Aug 2026 79%
Month Applications online
1 to 31 Aug 2026 79%
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%

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
4 Sep 2026 262 290 446 574 676 579 673
3 Sep 2026 336 354 528 600 725 691 785
2 Sep 2026 296 368 533 581 753 679 839
1 Sep 2026 293 374 537 635 700 614 732
31 Aug 2026 173 161 254 301 326 233 244
30 Aug 2026 108 107 187 228 256 217 209

Applications by nation

Data is for all applications (online and paper)

Date England Scotland Wales
4 Sep 2026 3,239 196 68
3 Sep 2026 3,731 167 125
2 Sep 2026 3,805 184 67
1 Sep 2026 3,741 93 55
31 Aug 2026 1,490 192 11
30 Aug 2026 1,286 16 10

User satisfaction

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

Week beginning 24 Aug 2026 90%
Week beginning Satisfaction Very dissatisfied Dissatisfied Neither satisfied
or dissatisfied
Satisfied Very satisfied
24 Aug 2026 90% 1 5 8 38 128
17 Aug 2026 85% 5 6 20 54 129
10 Aug 2026 87% 6 6 13 44 151
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

Service availability in last 30 days

4 Sep 2026 100%
Date Response time (in milliseconds) Availability
4 Sep 2026 512 100%
3 Sep 2026 504 100%
2 Sep 2026 520 100%
1 Sep 2026 529 100%
31 Aug 2026 541 100%
30 Aug 2026 531 100%

Service availability in last 24 hours

8:00pm 100%
Time Response time (in milliseconds) Availability
8:00pm 574 100%
7:00pm 577 100%
6:00pm 1,054 100%
5:00pm 545 100%
4:00pm 559 100%
3:00pm 527 100%

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