Option 1

Complete an overseas notification form

You can keep your details on the electoral roll so you can vote in federal elections while overseas.

By completing this form, you are not required to vote in electoral events but can remain on the electoral roll. If you don't have an Australian driver's license, Australian passport number, Medicare Card number or Australian citizenship number, please use the paper form.

Option 2

Register as an overseas elector

As a registered overseas elector, you are required to vote in electoral events. You must register as a general postal voter to automatically receive your postal ballot to your overseas address, it is essential you keep this up to date.

Failure to vote will result in removal from the electoral roll. Registration is valid for 6 years, and you can extend for a period of 12 months.

Complete an overseas notification form

Your name will be removed from the electoral roll, and you won’t be able to vote in any federal elections. You remain entitled to enrolment and voting until one month after you have left Australia. After this period, the AEC will begin the process of removing your name from the roll.

Should you return to Australia to live permanently, you need to re-enrol after you have been at your residential address for a minimum of one month. If you don’t have an Australian driver’s licence, Australian passport number, Medicare Card number or Australian citizenship number, please use the paper form and return it to the AEC.

This form should be submitted no more than three months before you plan to leave Australia.

Option 1

Complete an overseas notification form

You can keep your details on the electoral roll so you can vote in federal elections while overseas.

By completing this form, you are not required to vote in electoral events but can remain on the electoral roll. If you don't have an Australian driver's license, Australian passport number, Medicare Card number or Australian citizenship number, please use the paper form.

Option 2

Register as an overseas elector

As a registered overseas elector, you are required to vote in electoral events. You must register as a general postal voter to automatically receive your postal ballot to your overseas address, it is essential you keep this up to date.

Failure to vote will result in removal from the electoral roll. Registration is valid for 6 years, and you can extend for a period of 12 months.

Step 1

Enrol to vote

Step 2

Complete an overseas notification form

You can keep your details on the electoral roll so you will be able to vote in federal elections while overseas.

By completing this form, you are not required to vote in electoral events but can remain on the electoral roll. If you don’t have an Australian driver’s licence, Australian passport number, Medicare Card number or Australian citizenship number, please use the paper form.

Option 1

Enrol to vote from outside Australia

If you have been overseas for less than three years, you can enrol to vote from outside Australia..

If you have been overseas for more than three years you are not eligible to enrol.

Option 2

Enrol to vote as the spouse, de facto partner, or child of overseas elector

If you are the spouse, defactor partner or child of a person who is registered as an overseas elector, you can enrol to vote in federal elections if:

• you intend to return to Australia within 6 years of your 18th birthday
• you are an Australian citizen, and
• have never been enrolled before.