What your vote does
![](https://s42558.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/UK-decisions-630x700.png)
Voting is our opportunity to choose the best people to make decisions for us locally, nationally or internationally.
![](https://s42558.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/Choose-staff-3.png)
The people we vote for become politicians. We can choose who becomes a politician because we live in a democracy.
![](https://s42558.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/General-Election-UK-2.png)
A democracy is when the people who live in a country get to decide who runs the country.
The United Kingdom is a democracy because we can vote to decide who is in charge.
![](https://s42558.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/govt-no.png)
In a democracy, if you don’t agree with the people in charge you can vote in an election to try and change that.
![](https://s42558.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/govt-yes.png)
If you do agree with the people in charge, you can vote in an election to make sure they become politicians again.
![](https://s42558.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/Listen-leroy.png)
Politicians have to listen to the people that vote for them. If they don’t, people might vote for somebody else next time.
![](https://s42558.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/voters-630x700.png)
It is important to remember that people with a learning disability and autistic people have the same right to vote as anyone else.