Annual Canvass 2024 to 2025

The Annual Canvass for 2024 to 2025 has now started

Each year the Elections Office needs to write to every household in the city to confirm whether the details on the electoral register are correct.

Beginning in October and throughout the rest of 2024, the Elections Office has been contacting households across Birmingham to ask you to confirm who is currently living at the property and is eligible to vote.

During December and January, personal canvassers will be visiting those properties we have not yet had a response from to try and get this information.

Canvassers are issued with tablets which they will use to check the information we currently hold for the address, and make any changes that you need them to.

All canvassers will have photographic ID issued by the council so that you can be sure they are genuine callers.

Due to the timing of the personal canvass this year, you may get canvassers visiting you over the Christmas holiday period, however they have been advised not to make calls on Christmas Day, Boxing Day or New Years Day.

Some households will have been communicated with by email initially.

You may have received an email from birmingham.elections.office@notifications.service.gov.uk on behalf of Birmingham City Council. Be assured that this email is genuine.

If you have only recently responded to either a letter or email from the elections office, you may still be visited by a canvasser. The correspondence may have been received too late for us to let the canvasser know they no longer needed to visit.

If you have any queries you can email us or phone our helpline on 0121 303 2731.

Find out more about electoral registration and elections.

Page last updated: 17 December 2024