Voters will be required to show ID when voting in elections.

Almost 300,000 people in Northern Ireland are still either incorrectly registered to vote or missing completely.

Concerns raised over electoral register due to high number of missing voters

Alderney has given 16-year-olds the right to vote in two upcoming elections.

Alderney gives 16-year-olds the right to vote

The voting age for elections will drop from 18 to 16, bringing Alderney in line with Jersey and Guernsey.

The Policy and Finance Committee want to update the law to allow younger people to play their part in choosing the politicians that represent them.

The first teenager to vote in a UK election fifty years ago is now urging young people to get involved in politics 

A proposal to lower the voting age to 16 is supported by West Country MPs Kerry McCarthy and Luke Pollard.

The House of Commons is due to have a second reading of a Bill tomorrow that could pave the way for 1.5 million teens to cast a ballot. 