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REGISTER OF ELECTORS - It is your responsibility to ensure that you’re registered to vote.

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Governance and Administration
30 April 2024

New Registration

The Local and European Elections will be held on 7 June 2024.   If you are eligible to vote and not on the register of electors you must apply on or before Monday, 20 May 2024.    

To be eligible to vote in the Local Elections:

  1. You must be 18 years of age on or before Friday, 7 June 2024.
  2. You must be living full time at the address at which you wish to be registered.

To be eligible to vote in the European Elections:

  1. You must be 18 years of age on or before Friday, 7 June 2024.
  2. You must be living full time at the address at which you wish to be registered.
  3. You must have Irish citizenship or a national of a Member State of the European Union (other than Ireland) on or before Friday, 7 June 2024.

How to apply:

  • On-line on www.checktheregister.ie
  • Hard copy forms (ERF1) are available at Tipperary County Council, Civic Offices, Emmet Street, Clonmel or Tipperary County Council, Civic Offices, Nenagh.  Copies also available to download at www.checktheregister.ie

Postal Vote

Who can apply for a postal vote?

  • Living at home and cannot attend at a polling station to vote due to an illness or disability.
  • Unable to vote at your polling station, due to circumstances of occupation or education. 
  • Whole-time member of the Defense Forces. Members who live in military barracks may be registered either at the barracks or at their home address. 
  • An Irish diplomat posted abroad, and your spouse; and are registered at your home address in Ireland. 
  • A member of the Garda Síochána. You have the option of being registered as ordinary electors or as postal voters. If you are granted a postal vote you may only vote by post. 
  • Unable to vote at your polling station due to circumstances of your detention in a prison pursuant to an order of a court.
  • If publishing your name and address would jeopardise your safety or that of your household, you can apply to be an anonymous elector.  If you are recorded as an “anonymous elector” your name and address will not be available for inspection. You will be included by a reference only and you will vote by post and not attend your polling station on polling day.

Special Voters List:

Apply if you live in a nursing home or similar institution and can't attend a polling station due to illness or disability.

If you have had an illness/disability postal vote in the last Referendum in 2024, there is no need to re-apply.

How to Apply?

Contact Tipperary County Council 0818065000 or email franchise@tipperarycoco.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 Saturday, 11 May 2024.

For any enquires please email franchise@tipperarycoco.ie or phone 0818065000.

All completed forms must be returned by either email to franchise@tipperarycoco.ie or by Post, Register of Electors at the address below:

Franchise Section

Tipperary County Council, Civic Offices,

Clonmel, Co. Tipperary County Council E91N512