How to remove yourself from Open (edited) Electoral Register
The open register (formerly the 'edited register') is the version of the UK electoral roll that anyone can buy. It's the root source feeding 192.com, UKPhoneBook, and countless marketing databases. Opting out does not affect your right to vote or your credit rating.
Open Open (edited) Electoral Register’s opt-out page →Opens on their site. Come back here for the steps.
- Holder
- Local Electoral Registration Officer; EONI in Northern Ireland
- How you come off
- Fixed at the sourceyour council
- They may ask for
- Nothing beyond the name and address they already hold.
- Legal deadline
- 30 days · UK GDPR Art.17 (erasure) and Art.21 (objection to direct marketing - absolute right)
- Re-lists
- No — once it is off, it stays off.
- Time it takes
- 5 minutesthey usually act within 14 days
- Last verified
- 7 September 2026
- Difficulty
- Easy
What Open (edited) Electoral Register holds about you
- Full name
- Home address
How to get removed
- This is the single highest-impact step for UK users: it is the source most other holders buy from.
- Find your local Electoral Registration Office on gov.uk and ask to opt out of the OPEN register.
- You stay on the full register for voting and credit checks - only the version sold to companies changes.
- 192.com and similar usually drop you within about 48 hours afterwards.
THE upstream fix. Default is inclusion. Every UK people-search site buys this file.
Councils can't recall register editions already sold. Sites holding old copies keep that data until you ask them directly. Opting out stops all future editions carrying your details, which is what prevents re-listing.
Why you come back
This one does not re-acquire, so a completed removal holds. Most do not: the holders that buy public records re-buy them about every four months, which is why the rest of this register is re-checked rather than ticked off.
Opt-out processes change. If a step no longer matches what you see, tell us and we’ll update it.