<P> In the United States, many groups have attempted to lower age of candidacy requirements in various states . In 1994, South Dakota voters rejected a ballot measure that would have lowered the age requirements to serve as a State Senator or State Representative from 30 to 18 . In 1998, however, they approved a similar ballot measure that reduced the age requirements for those offices from 25 to 21 . In 2002, Oregon voters rejected a ballot measure that would have reduced the age requirement to serve as a State Representative from 21 to 18 . </P> <P> During the early 2000s, the British Youth Council and other groups successfully campaigned to lower age of candidacy requirements in the United Kingdom . The age of candidacy was reduced from 21 to 18 in England, Wales and Scotland on 1 January 2007, when section 17 of the Electoral Administration Act 2006 entered into force . </P> <P> In Australia a person must be aged 18 or over to stand for election to public office at federal, state or local government level . </P> <P> The youngest ever member of the House of Representatives was 20 - year - old Wyatt Roy elected in the 2010 federal election after the Electoral Act 1918 was amended (in 1973) to reduce the age of candidacy for that office from 21 to 18 . </P>

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