Make sure your voice is heard - make your vote count!
Voting for the by elections in Queens Park and Winton East wards will take place on Thursday 1st May 2008 at 8 polling stations within those areas between the hours of 7am and 10pm.
To find out if you are registered to vote in Bournemouth please contact the Elections Office on (01202) 451123 or email. If you wish to apply for a postal vote or proxy vote for this particular election the deadlines for the elections team to receive the forms back are 5pm on 16th April 2008 for postal votes & 5pm on 23rd April 2008 for proxy votes.
If you would like to vote but are unsure of what happens at the polling station or have never voted before further information is available online.
You can view election notices from this page by clicking on their names below
Notice of Election
Statement of Persons Nominated - List of Candidates
If you require any further information on Local Elections then contact the Elections Office helpline on 01202 451123 or via email.
DORSET ELECTION CODE OF PRACTICE (DECP)
REGISTER OF ELECTORS
The Register of Electors is a list of all those residents in the Borough who are eligible to vote in various elections. It also contains a list of overseas voters whose last registration to vote was at an address within Bournemouth, Service personnel who have registered under a service declaration and can include the names of homeless persons if they can claim some local connection. If you are not on the Register of Electors, you cannot vote.
There are two versions of the Register of Electors produced, a full version and an edited version.
The full version of the Register contains the names of all eligible electors within the Borough of Bournemouth. Only certain persons and organisations are allowed to have copies of this version of the Register of Electors. They are only permitted by law to use it for specified purposes, including electoral purposes, the prevention and the detection of crime and checking your identity when you have applied for credit. It is a criminal offence for them to pass information from the Register of Electors on to an unauthorised party or to use it for any other purpose.
The edited version of the Register of Electors leaves out the names and addresses of electors who have asked for them to be excluded from this version of the Register, and it may be purchased by anyone for any purpose, including direct marketing.
The Register of Electors is revised during the autumn and is published each year on the 1 December after we have completed our annual canvass of all households within Hart District. It is also updated once a month, on the first working day of each month, under a Rolling Registration scheme.
Check that you are registered to vote.
To check whether your name is included on the Register of Electors you can inspect the Register at the Town Hall, some Town Libraries or, alternatively, contact Electoral Services. The right of everyone who is eligible to vote is a fundamental democratic right.
Your Voice, Your Vote, Don’t Lose it.
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