Have you have voted every single vote you been eligible for

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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?

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Yes

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Yes.

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 😔

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.

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

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

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.

Yes. Every local national and MEP since 1977 plus referendums. I think it’s important. I agree with others who have said not voting should be a positive act, should have to go to the ballot box and spoil your paper if you don’t want to vote for anyone- or they should add a none of the above.

I don’t think I’ve voted in one or two.
One a police commissioner vote.
I’ve always voted in MP and council elections with one exception when there wasn’t a party I could vote for. Two terrible independents and the rest right wingers. I can’t remember if I spoiled my ballot or didn’t go at all.

Voted every vote since I was 21, unless I was overseas.

Voting is the democratic right of our nation. You don’t always get the result you want; however without voting you don’t have a view/opinion on the way you are being governed in my view.

Yes. Sometimes I've spoiled my ballot if the vote or candidates weren't worth a damn. But I feel strongly that women died so we can vote so the least I can do is turn up.

Yes, every election and I’m now 71.