New & Existing Voters Have Resources to Support Them Voting on Friday 24 October

8 October 2025 – An Coimisiún Toghcháin, Ireland’s independent electoral commission has welcomed a significant wave of 91,157 applications of people joining the electoral register and updating their details to vote in the 24 October Presidential Election.

60,733 new voter applications have been received through the CheckTheRegister.ie and Voter.ie websites since the start of An Coimisiún Toghcháin’s voter registration drive at Electric Picnic on August 28, with a further 30,424 applications received to update people’s existing registrations on the sites in the same period since 28 August.

The deadline for people to register to vote in Presidential Election 2025 closed at midnight last evening (7 October). The final two days, ahead of the deadline saw 26,335 applications to register or update details.

Among its functions, An Coimisiún Toghcháin, Ireland’s independent electoral commission, is tasked with building awareness of Ireland’s elections and increasing the numbers of people registering and voting through education and information campaigns.

Since August An Coimisiún has met thousands of people at Electric Picnic, the National Ploughing Championships, at public meetings, in schools, on webinars and on third level education campuses across the country as part of its voter registration drive. These events, combined with the work of local authority franchise teams have provided opportunities to answer questions directly, raise awareness about deadlines, and support first-time and younger voters in checking their details at checktheregister.ie.

An Coimisiún has now made available tools for newly registered and existing voters ahead of the election which include:

• A ‘How to Vote’ explainer video
• Easy to Read Guides to the Presidential Election

And An Coimisiún is posting answers to FAQ’s about all elements of the Presidential election and voting on our website.

Mr Art O’Leary, Chief Executive of the An Coimisiún Toghcháin, stated:

“Welcome to all of these new voters and our thanks for taking the time to register to vote or update registration details. Having updated information including people’s PPS numbers and Eircodes helps the overall accuracy of Ireland’s electoral registers.

“For those who are going to vote for the first time on Friday 24 October, your voice will now help to shape Ireland’s future and will be what I hope is the beginning of a lifetime of making a difference.

“From Electric Picnic to the Ploughing to college campuses, school halls, webinars and public meetings, for the last 6 weeks we have been travelling around the country speaking with thousands of people about getting registered and using your vote.

“Huge credit is also due to the franchise staff across Ireland’s city and county councils who are working flat out to update the register with all these new people ahead of polling.”

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For further information, please contact:

Brian Dawson, Communications and Public Engagement Manager, 

An Coimisiún Toghcháin, The Electoral Commission,

086 0749344 Brian.dawson@electoralcommission.ie 

Editor’s Note:

The figures cited above are application figures to the CheckTheRegister.ie and Voter.ie websites from 28 August 2025 to the registration deadline on 7 October 2025. They do not reflect applications made by post or in person to local authorities.  

Figures from 1July to 7 October have been provided to An Coimisiún Toghcháin by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and are broken down by month in the table below:

Month of 2025	New Voter Registration	Registration Update	Combined Total
July	2687	4272	6959
August	3596	3136	6732
September	29339	16421	45760
October (to 7 Oct)	30742	13606	44348

An Coimisiún Toghcháin, The Electoral Commission

An Coimisiún Toghcháin is a statutory, independent body, established on 9 February 2023 with responsibility for a broad range of electoral functions set out in the Electoral Reform Act 2022. An Coimisiún is central to Ireland’s electoral system, carrying out a range of new and existing electoral functions, including:

• responsibility for the registration of political parties;
• promoting public awareness of, and working to increase public participation in the State’s electoral and democratic processes through education and information programmes;
• overseeing the modernised Electoral Register, making recommendations and setting standards in relation to its maintenance and updating;
• the regulation of online paid-for political advertising, ensuring transparency in respect of online political advertisements during the period of an election or referendum campaign; (Legislation not yet commenced); and
• responsibility for the investigation and monitoring of online disinformation, online misinformation and manipulative or inauthentic behaviour online during election campaign periods, as well as functions to prevent manipulative or inauthentic behaviours online. (Legislation not yet commenced).
• making reports for the Minister in relation to local electoral boundaries;
• preparing research programmes and conducting research on electoral policy and procedure, and providing advice, as required, to the Minister and Government;
• the preparation of ex-post reports on the administration of electoral events;
• the decision-making, oversight, secretariat and supporting services associated with explaining the subject matter of referendum proposals, the promotion of public awareness of referendums and encouragement of the electorate to vote at referendum polls; and
• the conducting of reviews and making reports in relation to the constituencies for the election of members to the Dáil and the election of members to the European Parliament.

It is anticipated that the initial set of functions assigned to An Coimisiún will be expanded upon as it builds capacity and expertise.