Elections and voting
We often receive Freedom of Information (FOI) requests for information about elections and voting. For the purposes of transparency and openness, we have compiled comprehensive information regarding this common topic.
Election results
Results of past elections are available on our results page.
4 May 2023 election and voter ID
From 2023, rules were introduced requiring voters to produce photo ID to vote in a polling station. Please visit the Electoral Commission’s website for more information.
Information on accepted forms of photo ID for voting is available on our voter photo ID page.
On 21 September 2022, a report regarding voter identification was presented at the Council’s Democracy and General Purposes Committee. This report outlined the impacts and risks of the requirement for voter ID.
Our data relating to voter ID at the 4 May 2023 election is published on our voter ID data page.
At the 4 May 2023 election, some local authorities used ‘greeters’ outside polling stations to explain the ID requirements to electors. Within the borough of Maidstone, 21 out of 63 polling stations had a ‘greeter’ stationed outside at some point during polling day. The number of people turned away from polling stations by ‘greeters’ was not recorded.