Leading learning disability charity Mencap have today published their ‘Easy Read Guide to Local Elections’, which they have created in conjunction with the Electoral Commission. The booklet aims to help make the upcoming 2019...
Learn more about local elections, and how their outcomes could have visible effects on your community.
Turnout for the Local Elections is unfortunately often significantly lower than it is in General Elections, yet their effect on citizens’ and communities’ everyday lives is sometimes more visible. In this blog we’re focusing...
If you want to vote in elections and referendums, you must be registered to vote. You only need to register once – you do not need to register separately for every election, but you...
Councils can only be as effective, relevant and vibrant as the people elected to run it. That’s the inspiration behind the Local Government Association’s (LGA) Be a Councillor campaign, encouraging different kinds of people to...
Local Elections are taking place on this week, here is our five minute guide to what you need to know.
This map, created from The University of Manchester, uses the Manchester Metrolink map to show varying levels of voter turnout across Manchester.
On my way to work this morning I started to think about the upcoming local elections and all of the things I interact with on my commute that are influenced by my local council....
Leading learning disability charity Mencap have today published their ‘Easy Read Guide to Local Elections’, which they have created in conjunction with the Electoral Commission.
The Electoral Commission recently published an excellent blog post exploring young adults’ attitude towards electoral participation following the Scottish Council Elections, where sixteen and seventeen year olds were able to vote for the first time.
