Keith Bradnam 📈

For most of my life, voting in UK elections has mostly been restricted to voting on Thursdays of the election in a local voting booth. Postal voting was introduced in 2001, making it easier to take part in democracy.

I'm excited to be living in an area which is part of a new pilot for the upcoming local elections, which will allow people to vote in person on the *Saturday* or *Sunday* before the election.

It feels odd that it has taken so long to make it much easier for people to vote in person on a typical 'non-work day'.

Really hope that the pilot is successful and more people engage in the democratic process as a result.

#democracy #voting #LocalElections #MayElections

Apr 2 at 6:24amWeb
Show threadKeith Bradnam 📈3d ago

The UK has a complex system of voting in local elections with London boroughs, metropolitan boroughs, unitary authorities, county councils and district councils. Voting procedures and frequencies can all differ between and within these categories.

My council is a *district* council where councillors are elected to four-year terms. In three of the four years of the term, a third of councillors are up for re-election. The fourth year is when the parent county council election takes place.

Elections in some other district councils occur where half or all the councillors are up for re-election.

Feels like we have a fragmented, inconsistent pattern of elections at the local level.