Pope Leo voted by post in the mid-term elections

Pope Leo XIV also voted in the upcoming US mid-term elections, scheduled for 3 November, and did so by post from the Vatican.

According to the US newspaper the Chicago Sun-Times, Robert Francis Prevost, who was born in Chicago and is still registered to vote in Illinois, had requested a postal ballot on 3 October.

This was confirmed by Kim Fladhammer, chief of staff at the Will County Clerk’s Office, who stated that the Pope is on the list of voters who have applied to vote by post.

Prevost is registered at an address in New Lenox, Illinois. The file therefore had to make a long journey, from Joliet to Vatican City, where Leo XIV has been leading the Catholic Church since May 2025.