You can register to vote at both your term-time address and your home address, if you wish. You'll need to make two separate applications. Make sure that you register at the address at which you physically live in Cambridge, not the correspondence address for your college or hall.

Remember, it's a criminal offence to vote more than once in the same election. This means that you may vote in local elections from both addresses if they are for different local councils (as they are separate elections). You may only vote from one address for national elections, such as a parliamentary 'general' or European election.

You can register to vote before you are 18, although you can’t vote until the day of your 18th birthday. When you apply you will be asked for your National Insurance number.

You can still register if you have not yet received your National Insurance number, but we will need to see proof of your identity, so it might take a bit longer to process your registration. We’ll send you a list of which documents you can use as identification – it includes a passport and a full or provisional driving licence.

If your boat has a permanent mooring in the city, you can register to vote in respect of your houseboat. If you don't have a permanent mooring, you should register with a declaration of local connection.

If you are a British national living abroad, you can register to vote at UK Parliamentary General elections regardless of how long you have lived outside of the UK. You must have either been previously registered to vote or resident in Cambridge to apply to register as an overseas elector here.

If you will not be visiting the UK when an election is taking place, you will need to apply for either a postal vote or a proxy vote. We advise that you appoint a proxy to vote on your behalf as, while we make every effort to get your postal vote issued in good time, we cannot guarantee that it will reach you and be returned in time to be counted.

If you or your spouse/civil partner serve in the armed forces, you can register to vote for the armed forces in one of two ways:

• You can register each year as an ordinary elector at the address where you live, or
• You can register as a service voter with a 5-year registration, in respect of the last address where you lived or the address you would live were you not serving away from home.

You and your spouse/partner can register to vote for Crown Servants or British Council employees in respect of the address you last lived at in the UK, or the address you would live at were you not posted abroad.

If you will not be visiting the UK when an election is taking place, you'll need to apply for either a postal vote or a proxy vote. We advise that you appoint a proxy to vote on your behalf as, while we make every effort to get your postal vote issued in good time, we can't guarantee that it will reach you and be returned in time to be counted.

You can register with a declaration of local connection for an address or place where you spend a substantial part of your time. For example a night shelter, drop-in centre or even a park bench.

It is important that we obtain information on every person in Cambridge who is eligible to vote. However, you may live in an HMO and not know the name of everyone in the property.

If you cannot obtain all the names, or if some people refuse to give their name for the form, please complete the form as fully as you can and then tell us in the 'declaration' section how many people are not listed or have refused to provide the information. We can then make further enquiries to try to establish who else lives at the address.