Changing the supporting electrolyte cation from tetrabutylammonium to 1-butyl-3methylimidazolium is known to significantly increase the apparent heterogeneous electron transfer rate constants ( 0 value at the formal reversible potential ( 0 )) associated with the [SVW11O40] 3−/4− (V V/IV ) and [SVW11O40] 4−/5− (W VI/V ) processes in aprotic organic media. In this study, supporting electrolytes containing 7 different cations, namely 1-ethyl-3methylimidazolium ([EMIM] + ), 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium ([BMIM] + ), 1-butyl-1methylpyrrolidinium ([Py14] + ), tetraethylammonium ([TEA] + ), tetrapropylammonium ([TPA] + ), tetrabutylammonium ([TBA] + ) and tetrahexylammonium ([THA] + ), have been investigated in order provide a systematic account of the influence of electrolyte cations on the rate of polyoxometalate (POM) electron transfer at a platinum disk electrode. Fourier transformed alternating current (FTAC) voltammetry has been used for the measurement of fast kinetics and DC cyclic voltammetry for slow processes. The new data reveal the formal reversible potentials and electron-transfer rate constants associated with the V V/IV ( V 0 ) and W VI/V ( W 0 ) processes correlate with the size of the supporting electrolyte cation. V 0 and W 0 values decrease in the order, [EMIM] + > [BMIM] + > [Py14] + ≈ [TEA] + > [TPA] + > [TBA] + > [THA] + for both processes. However, while V 0 decreases gently with increasing cation size (k 0 = 0.1 and 0.002 cm s -1 with [EMIM] + and [THA] + electrolyte cations, respectively), the decrease in W 0 is much more drastic (k 0 = 0.1 and 2 × 10 -6 cm s -1 for [EMIM] + and [THA] + , respectively). Possible explanations for the observed trends are discussed (e.g., ion-pairing, viscosity, adsorption and the double-layer effect), with inhibition of electron-transfer by a blocking "film" of electrolyte cations considered likely to be the dominant factor, supported by a linear plot of ln(k 0 ) vs. ln(d) (where d is the estimated thickness of the adsorbed layer on the electrode surface) for both the V V/IV and W VI/V processes.