Overview
The annual canvass takes place every year between August and December. Each year we must, by law, contact all residential properties in Trafford to ensure we have the correct eligible residents registered to vote at a property. Information from the canvass is used to update the electoral register.
The annual canvass makes sure that we can keep the electoral register up to date. It helps us to identify any residents who are not registered to vote so that they can be encouraged to do so.
We do this by:
- inviting new residents to register to vote
- removing the names of voters who no longer live at an address
- confirming that the details that we hold for existing properties are correct
Changes to the register during the canvass period will take effect on 1 December when the revised register is published.