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4 Issue 58 • March 2022

NEWS

Make a date to

cast your vote

WARDS WITH
ELECTIONS IN MAY
2022:
• Battenhall
• Bedwardine
• Cathedral
• Claines
• Gorse Hill
• Nunnery
On Thursday 5 May, elections will be held for 12 • Rainbow Hill
• St. John
seats on Worcester City Council. Make sure you • St. Peter’s Parish
have your say on who makes important decisions • Warndon
• Warndon Parish North
about Worcester’s future. • Warndon Parish South

You need to be registered Not all areas of Worcester What if I can’t get to the WARDS WITH NO
in order to cast your vote – are scheduled to have polling station on 5 May? SCHEDULED ELECTIONS
and if you move house, you elections this year. If you live You can apply for a postal IN MAY 2022
need to register again. If you in a ward where polls are vote or arrange to vote by • Arboretum
are now 17 but will be 18 by being held and you are a proxy. With a postal vote, • St Clement
5 May, you can also register. registered elector, you will you receive your ballot paper • St Stephen
receive a poll card telling you by post before the election.
Go to www.gov.uk/ where and when to vote. A proxy vote allows you to vote applications is 5pm on
registertovote - it takes appoint another person to Tuesday 19 April. For proxy
less than five minutes. Just If you are not sure if you are vote on your behalf. vote applications, it’s 5pm on
make sure you’ve got your registered, do not receive Tuesday 26 April.
National Insurance number. a poll card or have any To apply for either, you can
The deadline to register in other queries, please email download a form from www.  For more information:
time for May’s election is electoralservices@worcester. worcester.gov.uk/elections. W: www.worcester.gov.
Thursday 14 April. gov.uk The deadline for postal uk/elections
City’s election map could be redrawn

The map of Worcester City Council’s same number of electors, and it could
electoral wards could be redrawn recommend a change in the number of
over the next few years, with a formal councillors in some wards.
review of the city’s ward boundaries
underway. It is 20 years since the This process is carried out
wards were last reviewed. independently of the City Council.

The Local Government Boundary The Commission will carry out a public
Commission is looking at the number of consultation in May and will then
elected members on the City Council publish their recommended changes
and the size and location of the wards. for Worcester City Council. It is  For more information:
The Commission is aiming to ensure expected that the first election of the W: www.lgbce.org.uk/all-reviews/
that each of the wards reflects local new-look City Council will take place west-midlands/worcestershire/
communities and has roughly the in 2024. worcester

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