Enrolment levels in the Bay of Plenty and Tauranga electorates have increased with more than 95 per cent of the population now enrolled – but remain lower than the same time before the 2008 election.

There is four days left to enrol to vote in the general election on Saturday, November 26 and so far 96.85 per cent of the Bay of Plenty electorate population have enrolled to vote, and 95.19 per cent of Tauranga.

On November 8, 2008 the Bay of Plenty electorate had 98.28 per cent of its population enrolled and Tauranga had 97.26 per cent.

Tauranga electoral enrolment centre registrar of electors Lesley Christophers says although it is slightly down on the last election there is usually a last minute rush to enrol.

'There is a mad rush at the moment, with a lot of overseas people downloading voting forms.

'We have been doing a big enrolment drive and today we are processing 300 enrolment forms.”

Lesley says there has been a surge in enrolments since the Rugby World Cup finished on October 23.

'In the last month there has been a lot of interest in people wanting to enrol to vote.

'The Rugby World Cup impacted a lot on the number of people enrolling to vote.

'Now the campaigns have started and there is a lot more media coverage and advertising more people are enrolling.”

Lesley says there has also been an increase in the number of youth looking to enrol.

'Youth are going to social media, like Facebook to get the information on how to enrol.”

However, youth still remain the lowest demographic of enrolled voters in the Bay of Plenty electorate with 85.5 per cent of the 5500 eligible voters aged 18-24 enrolled.

There are still 1469 eligible voters still to enrol to vote in the Bay of Plenty electorate.

The recent rise in enrolment is in keeping with the national trend with 92.6 per cent of New Zealand's population now enrolled to vote.

There are still 240,000 eligible voters not enrolled.

Electoral Enrolment Centre's national manager Murray Wicks says there is still time to enrol but people need to be quick.

'The countdown to election day is almost complete,” says Murray.

'Anyone who hasn't taken action and enrolled can't leave it any longer.

'They must get an enrolment form, fill it in and get it back to us by Friday, November 25.”

Murray says to make sure people's enrolment forms are processed in time people need to pick up a form from a Post Shop, fill it in and hand it to staff there and then.

People can also get an enrolment form by Freetexting your name and address to 3676 or by calling 0800 36 76 56 or from www.elections.org.nz

'There are still people in all our communities who haven't heeded the message to enrol for this year's election. Your vote matters, but it will only count if you are enrolled. Enrol today.”

More information about enrolling and voting is available from www.elections.org.nz.