The voting age change is likely to prove contentious, with critics previously arguing it is self-serving as newly-enfranchised teenagers are seen as more likely to support the centre-left Labour party ...

Britain will lower the voting age from 18 to 16 by the next national election as part of measures to increase democratic participation, the government announced Thursday. The ...

The changes mean around 1.5 million 16 and 17-year-olds will be able to vote in the next general election, which must be held ...

Lowering the voting age across the UK means around 1.5 million 16 and 17-year-olds will be able to vote at the next general ...

The next general election will see 16-year-olds able to vote for the first time, ministers have confirmed in wide-ranging plans to “modernise our democracy”.Labour’s manifesto committed the party to ...

On March 21, 1977, the counting at the constituency headquarters was aborted at the final hour as the postal ballots were ...

The Election Commission said the revision, being held after 22 years in Bihar, will cleanse the voters' list of ineligible people, duplicate entries and include those eligible as per law to vote.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday claimed that the Election Commission has been caught "red handed" stealing votes in the name of Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in Bihar, and ask ...

The change will bring general elections in line with rules in Scotland and Wales, where the minimum age for voting at ...