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Have you have voted every single vote you been eligible for

170 replies

Beon · 03/05/2025 18:11

Have voted all but two votes:
. 2005 GE as moved address about 20 miles away 3-4 weeks before the poll date
. 2019 EU. What was the bloody point in voting for candidates to sit there for 7 months?

OP posts:
drspouse · 03/05/2025 18:47

I've missed about 3 UK votes: two, I was working overseas and didn't know how to register, and one was just PCCs so I CBA.

Spidey66 · 03/05/2025 18:46

All but one or two in the early 90s The Poll Tax meant I didn’t put my name on the electoral register.

PollyannaWhittier · 03/05/2025 18:44

I've voted in every proper election, missed one of the police commissioner ones.

ReignOfError · 03/05/2025 18:44

Yes, every one since October 1974 that I was able to vote in. There were a couple of local elections when I lived overseas that I missed.

SkankingWombat · 03/05/2025 18:40

Yep, I've voted every time, including the Brexit referendum where DH had to arrange an emergency proxy vote for me as I was in hospital having given birth to DC2 the day before. She came early and via a rather dicey category 1 CS, so it hadn't occurred to me in advance I may not be able to vote in person. Although in fairness, if the latter had been 'just' local elections I wouldn't have applied for a proxy vote under the circumstances, but we both felt very strongly about Brexit (still do!) and that every vote was crucial. I still remember the awful feeling of waking up the following day and seeing the result of that vote - I was on a morphine drip, already feeling like I wasn't in my own body, and reading that headline instantly made me feel ice cold and sick 😔

tuvamoodyson · 03/05/2025 18:39

Yes.

Butteredtoast55 · 03/05/2025 18:39

Yes, every one since 1982 although I've deliberately spoiled my vote a few times!

Shetlands · 03/05/2025 18:38

Yes I have voted in every local and national election since I was eligible. I think my first vote was in local elections in 1973 and then the general election of 1974. My latest vote was on Thursday 1st May 2025 for our county council election.

My mother was hugely impressed by the suffragettes and told me what they'd endured in order to gain the vote so I must never forget that and I haven't.

Nyell · 03/05/2025 18:38

Yes, my first was the 1997 General Election. Voted in every national, local, and European election since then.

OxfordInkling · 03/05/2025 18:38

I think I didn’t bother with a police commissioner one. Don’t see the point of them at all.

NetballHoop · 03/05/2025 18:37

Yes, in every election since 1985. Though in all that time, only once has the candidate I voted for won.

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 03/05/2025 18:36

Katieweasel · 03/05/2025 18:30

Yes. I feel very privileged to be allowed to vote and very grateful to those who fought for me to have the right. Also you can’t complained about who gets elected if you don’t take part!

I agree. Living in a democracy is a privilege, even if you don't like the outcome.

OrigamiOwls · 03/05/2025 18:36

Yes, every single one I've been eligible for.

tripleginandtonic · 03/05/2025 18:35

Yes

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 03/05/2025 18:35

Yes, in started with some European elections a couple of weeks after my 18th birthday.

Prior to the requirement for voter ID, I voted twice in a general election. Once in the morning as my student house flatmate, who'd gone home for the holidays. Then I got on a train , went home myself, and voted as myself about 150 miles away. It transpired that neither vote was for the winning party, and did not affect the end result.

Lookitsnotmyproblem · 03/05/2025 18:34

Yes in all elections. I postal vote now as I can't get to poling station due to disability and so thankful for it (although teen dc recons he's voting because he posts it!)
I nearly missed voting in one election because my postal vote got delayed but i managed to get replacement papers sent in time.
I was really gutted in 1997 when a general election was called 3 weeks before my 18th birthday all my friends seemed eligible to vote.

Hhhdffs · 03/05/2025 18:33

Missed one year's local elections as I had to go to a different office for work that day

5foot5 · 03/05/2025 18:33

I am 62 and have voted every election I have been eligible for bar one GE when we were on holiday abroad and did not get around to sorting a postal vote in time.

Ponderingwindow · 03/05/2025 18:33

In 30+ years I have missed one vote. There was one very local item on the ballot, something like approving the people overseeing the water safety board or something. It was one of those elections where you can’t possibly find any information unless there has been a scandal and someone needs to be removed and I had the flu or something at the time so I skipped it. I would have just gone in and voted yes on everyone and spread my germs around.

weegiemum · 03/05/2025 18:32

I’ve missed one council election since I turned 18. I’m 54 now.

Fairnair · 03/05/2025 18:31

Think I have not missed voting in a General Election since I have been eligible, and voted in the EU referendum.

Have not always voted in the Mayoral and police commissioner elections.

AuntyAgony · 03/05/2025 18:31

I have always voted. I'm not eligible to vote in the big ones in the UK because I'm not from here, but I always do the council elections etc, and I vote in all the elections of my home country (even though it means travelling to the polling station). I was brought up to vote.

feelingbleh · 03/05/2025 18:31

I didn't vote in the recent local election as I'm so annoyed with them all right now that none of them deserve my vote. But normally I vote everytime

Katieweasel · 03/05/2025 18:30

Yes. I feel very privileged to be allowed to vote and very grateful to those who fought for me to have the right. Also you can’t complained about who gets elected if you don’t take part!

Spies · 03/05/2025 18:30

Yes the only one which was looking unlikely was on the day I gave birth but we squeaked in on the way back from the hospital.

If you don't vote you have absolutely no right to complain and I like to complain. 😂

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