Ballot Papers (Ribble Valley)

[Glpblondie]

I just wondered if somebody could clear this up for me. My mum and I went to vote at 11.30am yesterday and were only handed 1 ballot paper for the local election. I mentioned this to my mum as we left the polling station, as I was thought it was strange (in the past we have received 2 ballot papers i.e. 1 local and 1 national). She said who ever you voted for in local would automatically be for national as well. Anyway I thought nothing more of this until this morning on the radio; people were mentioning they HAD been given 2 ballot papers each???

Could somebody please explain this.

Thanks

[beejay1124]

you should have got 2 ballot slips
do you remember what it said on the one you got-

[DrFilth]

in droylsden we got 2 one white and one green

[joggerjayne]

Whoever was handing out the voting slips was keeping people's voting slips for himself, and using them to vote for his mate, the Monster Raving Loony candidate ...

... who will be elected to represent your constituency.

[daffy654]

I only had one ballot paper too.

[Glpblondie]

It was a white ballot paper with local mp's on it. OMG do you think I should contact the council??

[beejay1124]

it was the westminster election you voted on then
- your local council candidates would have been different

[Glpblondie]

Phew!! Thats ok then :)

[daffy654]

I have only ever had one ballot paper for general elections. Maybe those who had two were also voting for a councillor.

[beejay1124]

blondie-it also means you didnt get a chance to vote for your local councillor tho'

[dzug2]

The simplest answer is that there was no local council election in your area - only one third of councils were up for reelection so not everywhere would have a second paper.

[Mr Veritas]

dzug is right,
We only had a (single) General Election voting paper yesterday,as our District Council was not up for re~election this time.

[Mr Veritas]

and PS:~
Who you vote for Locally(Council) is nothing to do with who you vote for Nationally(Parliament) they are two seperate things that are often done on the same day for ease of administration/counting.

[36TEAK36]

Now I am confused.

I voted by post, and only had on ballot paper, which was local. I just spoke with a colleague of mine who voted at the polling station, and they had 2 ballot papers, 1 for local, and the other for national.

I just thought everyone voted local, and then the number of seats won nationally determines who wins the election.

[boxtops]

we only got one, there were no local elections here yesterday, only the national one.

[poohshunny]

I received two polling cards in the post, one for local and one for general elections, therefore I got two ballot papers. How many polling cards did you receive?

[Mr Veritas]

36TEAK36
Although you are saying "Local" what I think you mean is your vote was for the Member of Parliament for your area.
When we are saying "Local" we mean Council Elections.
You probably only got one because your Council(like mine) was not up for re~election this time.

[36TEAK36]

Thanks Mr V, it makes perfect sense now.