What Is The Church Electoral Roll? Why have one? The Church Electoral Roll is the parish’s register of electors and not the one that is completed to vote in General and Local Elections. It is a list of all people qualified to attend and to vote at the Annual Parochial Church Meeting where the elections take place for the Churchwardens, the Parish’s representatives on the Deanery Synod and the Parochial Church Council. Any person entitled to attend the Annual Parochial Church Meeting may raise any question of parochial or general church interest. The system is intended to enable church people at every level to be in touch with the Church as a whole and to play their part in decision making and also to ensure that the laity have their place in every aspect of church life, including its doctrine and services. Anybody whose name has been entered on the Roll for at least six months may also stand for election at the Annual Parochial Meeting to the Parochial Church Council or Deanery Synod. Anybody who is baptised, sixteen years of age or older, a member of the Church of England (or of a Church in Communion with the Church of England) and either a resident in the parish or who has habitually attended public worship in the parish for the preceding six months may apply to be entered on the Roll. The Roll is updated annually and a completely new Roll is compiled every sixth year (next in 2025).