2025 Elections

May 2025 Worcestershire County Council election

If you are unable to get to your polling station on 1 May, please see our Elections page for information on applying for an absent vote.

Election notices

• pdf Notices of Poll and Situation of Polling Stations (189 KB)
• pdf Statements of Persons Nominated (125 KB)
• pdf Notices of Election Agents (118 KB)
• pdf Notice of Election Worcestershire County Council 2025 (84 KB)

The election results and further information about this election will be published on Worcestershire County Council's website.

Important dates

• 28 March – By this date, most voters will have received their poll card. If you were not registered by 10 March, your poll card will come later. If you do not receive a poll card, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to check that you are registered.
• 3 April - This is when we will give public notice of who is standing for election in each area.
• 11 April - The first postal vote packs will be sent on this day. These will be for postal votes granted up to 28 March. We would expect these packs to have been delivered to voters by 15 April. If your application was granted after that date, your postal vote pack will be sent out later.
• 11 April 11.59pm - Registration deadline. If you are not registered or have recently moved, you should register online now  or contact us (details below) for a paper form as soon as possible.
• 14 April 5pm - Postal vote application deadline. Completed applications must have reached this office by 5pm. You can apply for postal votes online or download a paper form from the same website. Or we can post a form to you on request. We can accept forms sent to us via email if the application is complete and legible. This is also the deadline date for changes to, or cancellations of, both postal and proxy votes.
• 22 April - Postal vote packs will be sent on this day to voters who were granted a postal vote from 28 March. We would expect these packs to have been delivered to voters by 25 April.
• 23 April 5pm - Proxy vote application deadline. Completed applications for new proxies must have reached this office by 5pm. You can apply for some types of proxy votes online or download a paper form from the same website. Or we can post a form to you on request. We can accept images of paper forms sent to us via email if the application is complete and legible.
• 23 April 5pm - Voter Authority Certificate application deadline. Voter Authority Certificate Applications can be made online or paper forms are available by contacting us. You can also come to the Customer Services Centre at the Guildhall for help with your application.
• 25 April - If you have lost your postal vote, or it was not delivered, you should contact us immediately, but this is the first date we are permitted to issue replacements.
• 1 May - Election Day. Polling stations open from 7am and close at 10pm. If you are in the polling station, or in a queue outside it, by 10pm you will be able to apply for a ballot paper.

Boundary changes

Following the boundary review conducted by the Local Government Boundary Commission England (LGBCE), there have been some changes to the County Division boundaries. Some electors may find they are now voting in a different area or at a different polling station.

You can view the new boundaries here. Your poll card will have your up-to-date division and polling station information.

Polling stations

Your polling station will be shown on your poll card. If you have lost your poll card and do not know which polling station you should attend, you can find your polling station using our look-up tool.

Postal voters

There are new rules regarding handing in postal votes.

If you have missed the final post, you can hand your postal vote in at the Guildhall or at a polling station within Worcester City. Please note that the Elections Act 2022 has introduced restrictions on the number of postal votes that can be handed in, prohibits campaigners from handling postal votes other than their own and their immediate family, and requires you to complete a form at the point you hand your postal vote in.

If you have applied for, and been granted, a postal vote you will not be able to vote in-person at a polling station. You should treat the ballot paper as if it had been given to you in-person, keep your vote secret and don’t let anyone influence you to vote against your will.

If you make a mistake on your ballot paper, or with any part of your postal pack, please do not destroy it. Contact us as soon as possible and explain what has gone wrong. If it is an issue with the envelopes or the Postal Voting Statement, we may be able to explain how to solve the issue. If the issue is with the ballot paper, you may need to return it to us and be issued with a new one.

If your postal vote has not arrived, or has since been misplaced or destroyed, it is considered “lost”. We can reissue lost postal votes but are only permitted to do so between Friday 25 April and 5pm Thursday 1 May.

Please contact us as soon as possible to inform us that your postal vote pack is lost, do not wait until 25 April to do so.

Accessibility

All polling stations are accessible to disabled voters. At some venues this requires the installation of temporary ramps to buildings that are not otherwise accessible. In rare cases, voters with large, motorised wheelchairs may have trouble entering the polling station. If this occurs, please speak to the member of polling station staff who will be assisting voters at the door or use the provided doorbell to call for assistance.

Voters with disabilities may choose to bring a companion to the polling station to assist them. Your companion can be anyone you choose over the age of 18. A companion may assist up to two people at each election and will need to fill out a short form provided to them by polling station staff.

Blind or partially sighted voters may choose to make use of the large print ballot papers as a reference or use a tactile voting template that fits over the ballot paper, or they may ask a companion or polling station staff to assist them. You may also have your own reading aids, such as electronic magnifiers or an app on your phone, which you can use.

Other equipment to aid or provide comfort is available at each polling station, this includes additional seating, a lower voting booth, ballot paper magnifiers, rubber grips for the pencils, and additional lighting in the voting booth. There are also easy read guides on voting available which can be found here:

• My Vote My Voice website
• United Response website

If there are further materials, equipment, or accommodations you would like us to provide, please contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Voter ID

For elections in England, all electors voting in-person at a polling station will need to show photo identification before they are given a ballot paper.

There are over 20 forms of photo ID that can be used, a full list can be found at the Electoral Commission website.

Please note that photocopies or digital forms of ID cannot be used (except for eVisas). Workplace or Student IDs are not accepted unless they are also PASS accredited.

If you are voting as a proxy on behalf of another elector, you will need to bring your ID, not the original elector’s.

Expired documents are acceptable, if you are still recognisable from the photo.

The name on the ID must match your name on the electoral register. If you have changed your name, please contact us as soon as possible to update the register. On polling day, if your name has changed, you can take supporting evidence to a polling station, such as a marriage certificate or change of name deed.

If you do not have a form of accepted ID, or if you are not sure whether your photo ID still looks like you, you can apply for a free voter ID document, known as a Voter Authority Certificate. Apply online for a Voter Authority Certificate, or contact us for a paper form, or apply in-person at customer services at the Guildhall.

Candidates

View our information about standing in these elections as a candidate.

We will publish a notice on 3 April detailing the candidates that are standing in each area, but we do not provide information about their politics or manifestos. Candidates are responsible for promoting their own candidacy.

There is a non-partisan non-profit organisation called Democracy Club that collates information about candidates and publishes it in one place for easy access. Their Who Can I Vote For? website. This website is owned and operated by Democracy Club; Worcester City Council is not responsible for any of the content.

Accidents and emergencies

If something happens after the proxy deadline of 5pm 23 April that prevents you from voting at your polling station, you may be able to apply for an emergency proxy. You can find more information at the electoral commission website along with the relevant forms, or we can print paper copies for you.

Please note, in some situations, e.g. if you are in hospital, you will still need to be able to sign the form and someone, perhaps a nurse or doctor, will need to sign to support your application.

We must have received the completed form to our office by 5pm on polling day, legible images of the completed forms can be emailed to us.

Please remember that your named proxy must be registered and eligible to vote, must not already be a proxy for two other people (or four if at least two of them are registered to vote from abroad), must be able to get to your polling station, and must have their own photo ID.

Contacting us

The best way to contact us is by email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Please include your name, address, and your query.

You can also call us on 01905 722530.

FAQs

View our FAQs about registering and voting at elections.