REGISTER OF ELECTORS
It is now your responsibility to ensure that you are registered to vote.
New Registration
The Referendums on the proposals contained in the Thirty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023 and the Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023 will be held on 8th March 2024. If you are eligible to vote and not on the register of electors you must apply on or before Tuesday 20th February 2024.
Eligible to vote in a Referendum?
You must be 18 years of age on or before Friday 8th March 2024.
You must be living full time at the address at which you wish to be registered.
You must have Irish citizenship.
How to apply:
On-line on www.checktheregister.ie
Hard copy forms (ERF1) are available at all Louth County Council offices, Local Libraries, Garda Stations and the main Post Offices. Copies are available to download from www.checktheregister.ie.
Postal Vote
If you have an illness or disability, or due to work/service/study reasons you are prevented from attending a polling station on polling day, you may be entitled to vote by post.
If you had an illness/disability postal vote in the last general election in 2020, there is no need to re-apply.
Please contact Louth County Council at 042 9335457 or email register@louthcoco.ie to check your postal voter status or to enquire about your eligibility. Forms to apply for a postal vote can be downloaded at www.checktheregister.ie
Applications for entry onto the postal voters list must be received on or before the closing date which is Monday 12th February 2024.
All completed forms must be returned by either email to register@louthcoco.ie or by post to Franchise Section, Louth County Council, County Hall, Millennium Centre, Dundalk, Co. Louth A91 KFW6.
