We’re sending letters, emails and texts to everyone on the electoral roll to remind them to check and update their details.
If you’re enrolled to vote at your current address, we sent you a letter from in August asking you to check the details we have for you, and update them if anything has changed.
This letter arrived between 17-22 August and included:
- your full name
- your date of birth
- your roll type (Māori or general) and electorate
- your phone number(s)
- your email address
- your home address
- your postal address, if you have one.
Please check all of this information carefully. If anything has changed since you last updated your enrolment, you need to update your enrolment details.
Updating your details helps make sure you’re able to vote in the 2026 General Election.
You can update your details online, or you can complete and return the form enclosed with your letter.
Brochure - Voting in the 2026 General Election (PDF, 834KB)
Update your details by 4 October to get an EasyVote card
If you enrolled to vote at your current address by Sunday 4 October then we sent you an EasyVote card. If we had your email address we sent this card by email, otherwise you were sent it by mail.
If you enrolled or updated your details after 4 October you wouldn’t have appeared on the printed roll at voting places in your electorate and would have had to cast a special vote.
You can’t enrol or update your details for the 2026 General Election after Sunday, 25 October.
What if you don’t receive a letter?
If you didn’t receive an enrolment update letter, you need to enrol or update your address on the electoral roll.
You can update your address online with your NZ passport, NZ driver licence, or RealMe verified identity.
If you don’t have one of those, there are other options.
What if the information in my letter isn’t correct?
If you’ve recently made changes to your enrolment, they might not have been reflected in your letter.
We prepared your enrolment update letter using electoral roll information from 7 July. If you’ve made changes since then, your new details won’t be included in your letter. This includes changes in roll type – i.e. from general roll to Māori roll, or Māori roll to general roll.
If something doesn’t look right, you can check your enrolment online, or give us a call on 0800 36 76 56 and we can check for you.
If you’ve made changes to your enrolment, we’ll send you a separate confirmation by email or post.
Reminder emails and text messages
If we have your email address or your mobile phone number, we sent you reminders about the enrolment deadline. These reminders were sent in late August.
Reminder emails were from no-reply@easy.vote.nz and reminder text messages were from 5101.
If you received these reminders, but didn’t receive your enrolment update letter, you need to update your address details.