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

14 applications in the last 5 minutes

Last 24 hours - applications per 5 minutes

Time Online applications
2:10pm 14
2:05pm 5
2:00pm 14
1:55pm 7
1:50pm 9
1:45pm 6

Applications breakdown

23 Oct 2026 2,712 total applications submitted on this day

Application breakdown graphs

Applications per day

Applications per day

Applications per week

Date Online Paper forms
23 Oct 2026 1,757 955
22 Oct 2026 1,630 1,343
21 Oct 2026 1,851 1,156
20 Oct 2026 1,912 1,649
19 Oct 2026 1,643 1,062
18 Oct 2026 1,082 25

Applications online

Applications submitted online (instead of by paper forms)

1 to 30 Sep 2026 71%
Month Applications online
1 to 30 Sep 2026 71%
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%

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
23 Oct 2026 186 236 312 351 498 530 594
22 Oct 2026 183 265 318 420 497 518 763
21 Oct 2026 205 224 336 377 573 566 726
20 Oct 2026 237 290 376 411 659 679 903
19 Oct 2026 190 207 322 340 516 507 621
18 Oct 2026 80 123 150 204 229 141 180

Applications by nation

Data is for all applications (online and paper)

Date England Scotland Wales
23 Oct 2026 2,619 61 32
22 Oct 2026 2,795 86 92
21 Oct 2026 2,896 66 45
20 Oct 2026 3,291 95 175
19 Oct 2026 2,511 146 48
18 Oct 2026 1,088 10 9

User satisfaction

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

Week beginning 12 Oct 2026 87%
Week beginning Satisfaction Very dissatisfied Dissatisfied Neither satisfied
or dissatisfied
Satisfied Very satisfied
12 Oct 2026 87% 4 4 7 21 85
5 Oct 2026 88% 2 4 6 34 95
28 Sep 2026 88% 2 8 5 26 105
21 Sep 2026 92% 2 2 5 29 118
14 Sep 2026 90% 0 6 7 41 132
7 Sep 2026 87% 4 9 15 48 149

Service availability in last 30 days

23 Oct 2026 100%
Date Response time (in milliseconds) Availability
23 Oct 2026 533 100%
22 Oct 2026 557 100%
21 Oct 2026 529 100%
20 Oct 2026 520 100%
19 Oct 2026 556 100%
18 Oct 2026 524 100%

Service availability in last 24 hours

1:00pm 100%
Time Response time (in milliseconds) Availability
1:00pm 527 100%
12:00pm 529 100%
11:00am 529 100%
10:00am 542 100%
9:00am 522 100%
8:00am 557 100%

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