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Notice of Poll and situation of Polling Stations
Referendum on the voting system for United
Kingdom parliamentary elections
1. A referendum will be held on Thursday 5
May 2011 to decide on the question below:
At present, the UK uses the 'first past the post' system
to elect MPs to the House
of Commons. Should the 'alternative vote'
system be used instead?
2. The hours of poll will be from 7 am to 10 pm
3. Applications, amendments or cancellations of postal votes and
proxy amendments or cancellations must reach Electoral Registration
Officer at Queen Victoria House, 794 Cranbrook Road,
Ilford, IG6 1JS by 5 pm on Thursday 14 April 2011
4. Applications to vote by proxy at this referendum must reach
Electoral Registration Officer at Queen Victoria House, 794
Cranbrook Road, Ilford, IG6 1JS by 5 pm on Thursday 21 April
2011
5. Applications to vote by proxy at this referendum
applied for on grounds of physical incapacity, where that physical
incapacity occurred after 5 pm on Thursday 21 April 2011 must reach
the Electoral Registration Officer at Queen Victoria House,
794 Cranbrook Road, Ilford, IG6 1JS by 5 pm on Thursday 5
May 2011.
Find your nearest polling station on the Redbridge i
imap.
Dated: Thursday 8 April 2011
Roger Hampson
Counting Officer
What is the referendum?
On 5 May 2011, Britian is being asked whether to:
- keep it's 'First Past the Post' voting system or
- switch to Alternative Vote, a form of preferential voting
in which voters rank candidates in order of preference.
The Referendum Question
"At present, the UK uses the 'first past the post' system to
elect MP's to the House of Commons. Should the 'alternative vote'
system be used instead?" - Yes or No?
What is the current 'First Past the Post' system?
- Voters mark one candidate on the ballot paper with a cross
- The candidate who gets the most votes in their constituency is
elected the MP.
What is the 'Alternative Vote' system?
The Alternative Vote - widely referred to as the AV -
system sees voters use numbers to rank candidates in order
of preference.
- You put a 1 next to your first choice
- 2 next to your second choice
- 3 next to your third choice and so on.
Anyone getting more than 50% of first preference votes
is elected.
If that doesn't happen, the candidate with the
fewest votes is eliminated from the contest and
their second preference votes are allocated to the
remaining candidates.
If a candidate now has more than 50% of the votes
remaining in this round they are elected. If not, again
the candidate with the fewest votes is removed from the contest and
their next highest preference for a remaining candidate is
allocated to that candidate. This process is repeated until
one candidate has 50% of the votes remaining in a
round.
More information about the referendum will be posted to all
households by the Electoral Commission in April 2011.
Are you registered to vote?
If you are not already registered to vote and want to take part
in this referendum, you will need to register to vote by 14 April
2011.
Registered voters will recieve a polling card letting them know
where your designated polling station is.
Our interactive map has a Polling Stations layer where you can
also check out how to find your polling station, once you receive
your polling card. (directions to your polling staton are printed
on the reverse of the the polling card).
More information about the referendum
An information booklet on the referendum and different systems
of voting will be delivered to all households by the Electoral
Commission.
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