Polling District and Polling Places Review

Wychavon District Council is currently conducting a review of polling districts and polling places according to Electoral Administration Act 2006. 

This is a statutory requirement for 2011 and will continue to be carried out at least every 4 years afterwards.

The Council has commenced the first stage of public consultations in respect of this review and we are currently interested in hearing your views.

Councillors, local political parties, residents and views from such persons who have particular expertise in relation to access to premises views are invited to submit their representations.

Polling districts are the areas allocated to a polling place/polling station.  Polling districts form the building blocks of the wards, electoral areas and constituencies, and any changes can only be made within these boundaries.

This review will not affect ward boundaries. Each parish in England must be in a separate polling district. A summary of current electoral arrangements and polling stations is available to download and maps of current boundaries can be inspected by contacting the Electoral Services Officer at the Civic Centre, Pershore.

Whilst conducting the review the council must:

• Seek to ensure that all electors in the constituency have such reasonable facilities for voting as are practicable in the circumstances.
• Seek to ensure that so far as is reasonable and practicable, the polling places we are responsible for are accessible to all electors, including those who are disabled, and when considering the designation of a polling place, must have regard to the accessibility needs of disabled persons.

If you have any proposals for change, or wish to make any suggestions please download a submission form and return it to us by post, fax or email.  When making representations the Council is asking that you include proposals for alternative polling places.

Current polling places.

The consultation period will ran until Friday 5 August 2011.

The Councils final decisions will be published on 21 December 2011 along with all correspondence or minutes in connection with the review.

Associated Documents:

Notice of review

Submission form

List of current polling districts and allocated polling places

Letter to interested parties

Terms of reference for review of polling districts and polling stations.

Final notice

List of representations received and recommendations

Salwarpe recommendations

Upon the publication of the final arrangements the following are, by law, entitled to appeal direct to the Electoral Commission within a period of six weeks.

These are:

• Groups of no less than 30 electors in a consituency who have not previously made representations.
• An elector who has previously made representations during the Review.
• A person who is not an elector in the area but who the Commission decides has expertise in access to premise or facilities for disabled people.

All represenations to the Electoral Commission must be in writing. They must be based on the grounds that the Council has not properly conducted the review because it has either failed to meet the reasonable requirements of electors, and/or taken insufficient account of accessibilty for disabled people to the polling places within a polling district.