How To Register As A Voter In Hong Kong

Registers of electors for Rural Representative Elections are compiled annually.

If you have not registered as an elector and wish to have your name entered in this year's register(s), please submit your application on or before 16 July of the same year.

If registered elector of Indigenous Inhabitant Representative Election wants to report on change of his/her principal particulars (i.e. name), he/she should submit his/her application on or before 16 June; for request for change of other particulars (including principal residential address, correspondence address or the Indigenous Village / Composite Indigenous Village to be registered), the application should be submitted on or before 16 July.

If registered elector of Resident Representative Election / Kaifong Representative Election wants to report on change of his/her principal particulars (including name or principal residential address), he /she should submit his/her application on or before 16 June. Please note that a registered elector of Resident Representative Election / Kaifong Representative Election applying for change of principal residential address (regardless of whether the principal residential address is still in the Existing Village / Market Town as registered) must attach with the application form the relevant required proof of principal residential address. For details, please refer to the Guidance Notes attached to the application form.

If an elector is required to confirm he still resides at his registered address as contained in the register of electors following the receipt of a letter from Home Affairs Department / the Electoral Registration Officer, the elector may be required to provide original or photocopy of proof of the registered address according to the information as mentioned in the letter.

In case the elector has no address proof, the Registration and Electoral Office will also accept the address proof of another person who lives with the elector. In such case, a declaration made by the elector is required to certify that such other person is living with the elector at the same address. In addition, the elector also needs to certify that the attached address proof is a complete authentic copy or a complete true copy of the original. The elector can also provide a statutory declaration made before a Commissioner for Oaths/a practising solicitor/a Justice of the Peace to substantiate the claim of residing at the registered address.

The elector may download a sample of the relevant declaration or statutory declaration as follows.

Declaration made by an elector for the address proof of a person living with the elector

Download a form here (in PDF format)

Statutory declaration made by an elector by virtue of the Oaths and Declarations Ordinance

Download a form here (in PDF format)

Application Forms - Voter Registration #

Form

Indigenous Inhabitant Representative Election

Resident Representative Election

Kaifong Representative Election

Application Forms - Change of Registered Particulars #

Form

Indigenous Inhabitant Representative Election

Resident Representative Election

Kaifong Representative Election

#	The above deadlines refer to the dates on which an application reaches the Home Affairs Department (HAD) / Electoral Registration Officer (ERO). Applications which reach the HAD / ERO later than the above dates will be considered for the purpose of compiling the register of electors for the following year. Please submit the completed and signed form to the HAD / ERO by the following means:
(a)	by post (Address: Home Affairs Department, 30/F, Southorn Centre, 130 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong); or
(b)	by fax (No. : 2591 6392); or
(c)	in person or by a representative to the HAD Headquarters or Home Affairs Enquiry Centres of any District Offices of the HAD; or
(d)	by email (email address: rre@had.gov.hk), application form scanned and attached as an email attachment; or
(e)	by uploading the electronic form via the e-Submission Platform.