Uk Election Qualifying Commonwealth Citizen
A qualifying foreign citizen in wales or scotland.
Uk election qualifying commonwealth citizen. You have to be a certain age to register to vote. A qualifying commonwealth citizen living in the uk. The uk confers the right to register to vote to three categories of people uk or irish citizens or to citizens resident in the uk hailing from qualifying commonwealth nations or from the eu.
If you hold british irish or qualifying commonwealth citizenship you can vote in all elections that take place. A uk or irish citizen. Be 18 or over on election day be a british irish or qualifying commonwealth citizen be resident at an address in the uk or a british citizen living abroad who has been registered to vote in uk.
An eu citizen living in the uk. Who can register to vote. However if a person has such leave to stay from the home.
The minimum age requirement to cast your vote in uk s general elections is 18 years. If you are a qualifying foreign citizen living in wales you can vote in senedd cymru welsh parliament elections. Qualifying commonwealth citizen means those citizens from commonwealth or former.
To register to vote you must be. This is a legacy of the situation that existed before 1983 where they had the status of british subjects. Cn member in the united kingdom full voting rights and rights to stand as a candidate are given to citizens of ireland and to qualifying citizens of commonwealth countries.
A commonwealth citizen is a citizen or qualified national of a commonwealth of nations member state. If you hold eu citizenship other than the uk republic of ireland malta and cyprus you can vote in all elections that take place apart from elections to the uk parliament westminster. That status has significance only in the united kingdom and to a lesser extent a limited number of other member states since most including australia canada india nigeria pakistan and south africa do not treat citizens from other commonwealth states any differently from foreign nationals.