The council runs the election count and has advice on how to vote on its website.
If you applied for a postal vote by 7 June, then it will have been posted out and should arrive soon if you have not already received it.
If you applied for a postal vote between 8-19 June it will be sent out by this weekend. Further information can be found on the council website.
Please fill your postal vote in as soon as possible once you receive it and post it back to the address on the envelope.
When filling out your postal vote if you have separated the statement from envelope the advice is that this is not an issue – just send everything back in the envelope – and while the advice is to use black ink, don’t worry about using blue ink.
If you need a proxy vote, where someone votes on your behalf, the deadline for new applications is tomorrow Wednesday 26 June at 5pm. Guidance on proxy votes is available on the council website.
If you are going to vote in person, this is the first UK General Election where voters must show a form of photo identification (ID) to cast their ballot. A list of approved forms of ID and information on how to obtain a free Voter Authority Certificate are also available on the website.
The deadline to apply for a Voter Authority Certificate to vote in the 2024 General Election is also tomorrow Wednesday 26 June at 5pm.
There is a full list of candidates standing in Edinburgh’s five parliamentary constituencies here.
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