{"id":540981,"date":"2026-04-20T12:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/540981\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T12:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:08:08","slug":"the-deadline-to-register-to-vote-is-tonight-heres-everything-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/540981\/","title":{"rendered":"The deadline to register to vote is tonight &#8211; here&#8217;s everything you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The deadline to register to vote is at 23:59 tonightpublished at 10:28 BST<\/p>\n<p>10:28 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On 7 May there will be local elections in parts of England, elections to the Scottish and Welsh parliaments, and also a number of mayoral elections in parts of England. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Millions of voters will be able to cast ballots, and they are set to be the biggest set of elections since the general election nearly two years ago. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The deadline to register to vote in all of these contests is 23:59 BST tonight (Monday 20 April). <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We will be explaining all you need to know about registering to vote, and the elections being held in just over two weeks time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">You can also send us any questions you have about the process. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stick with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The deadline to register to vote is at 23:59 tonightpublished at 10:28 BST 10:28 BST On 7 May&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-540981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}