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A government poster advises people to register to vote on the www.gov.uk website under the slogan 'Don't let them stop you voting'.However, voter turnout is usually pretty low for the local elections .How many places are going to the polls?
There will also be 10 mayoral elections, including in London. Three of these positions are newly created, and their election will use the first-past-the-post system.There are also 25 seats available in the London Assembly, while police and crime commissioners are also being elected across England and Wales.That’s actually the smallest number of any local electoral cycle – just one sixth of the total number of council seats in England.
Many of the seats being contested this time were last up for election in 2021 – a time when Boris Johnson’s rollout of the Covid vaccine saw the Tories take home their best performance in the local elections since 2008.
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