United Kingdom

Population Statistics

64,088,222

Total Population

9,613,233

Population with a disability

according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate

Election Dates

08 June 2009

Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities


Representation of the People Act (1983, last amended 2013)

Updated: June 2015

Part II, article 18B states:

(4) The following rules apply:

  • (a) the authority must seek to ensure that all electors in a constituency in its area have such reasonable facilities for voting as are practicable in the circumstances:
  • (b) the authority must seek to ensure that so far as is reasonable and practicable every polling place for which it is responsible is accessible to electors who are disabled;
  • (c) the authority must have regard to the accessibility to disabled persons of potential polling stations in any place which it is considering designating as a polling place or the designation of which as a polling place it is reviewing
Excerpt from the Representation of the People Act (1983, last amended 2013)