• you are an Australian citizen, or eligible British subject,
• aged 18 years and over, and
• have lived at your address for at least one month.

If you are 16 or 17 you can enrol now so when you turn 18 you'll be able to vote.

• your driver's licence, or
• Australian passport number, or
• have someone who is enrolled confirm your identity.

18+ or Proof of Age cards are not accepted.

There are special enrolment forms and/or information for:

• Silent electors
• General postal voters
• People with no fixed address
  (homeless, seasonal workers or travellers around Australia with no address to return to)
• Long-term travellers within Australia
  (who will return to their permanent enrolled address)
• Overseas residents or going overseas
• People physically incapable of signing
• Prisoners
• Norfolk Island electors
• Workers in Antarctica
• People with disability
• Seniors

While the AEC only runs federal elections, the action taken by completing an AEC enrolment form is applied for federal and any relevant state, territory or local government elections.

2020 Victorian local government election

The electoral roll for the 2020 Victorian local government election closed at 4pm on Friday 28 August. Enrolment applications received after the close of rolls will not be included on the electoral roll for this election. For information on the Victorian local government elections, please visit the Victorian Electoral Commission website. You can still enrol for future federal, state and local government elections

• complete and print a PDF form then return it to the AEC
• pick up a form at an AEC office and return it to the AEC.