Register of voters for the European elections Registration of Germans living in Germany

If you can only be included in the electoral roll on application, you will be entered as follows:

• You must submit a written application to the municipality responsible for you by the 21st day before the election at the latest.
• The authority decides on the application and sends out an election notification or a rejection notice.

German voters are entered in the electoral roll ex officio if they are registered on the 42nd day before the election,

• for one flat, in the case of several flats for their main flat,
  • as a captain or captainess or
  • as a crew member of a seagoing vessel flying the German flag or
  • as a skipper of an inland waterway vessel registered in the German shipping register or
  • for a prison or similar institution in Germany

are registered.

Upon request, German voters are included in the electoral roll,
if they

• habitually reside in the Federal Republic of Germany without owning a flat or
• are in a correctional institution without having been registered ex officio.

An application for entry in the electoral roll must be submitted in writing no later than 21 days before the election. It must include the

• Surnames,
• the first names,
• the date of birth,
• contain the exact address.
• The application must also be signed personally and by hand.

• § Section 15 of the European Electoral Regulations (EuWO)
• § Section 16 of the European Electoral Regulations (EuWO)
• § Section 17 of the European Electoral Regulations (EuWO)
• § Section 21 of the European Electoral Regulations (EuWO)

Further information on the topic of elections can be found at

• www.wahlen.hessen.de