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Part 4 Counting of Votes: Elections using the Simple Majority SystemF1

England and Wales

  1. 52Overview of rules and interpretation
  2. 53Attendance at proceedings under this Part
  3. 54Preliminary and general duties where returning officer is co-ordinating returning officer
  4. 55Separation of ballot papers etc. where returning officer is co-ordinating returning officer
  5. 56Preliminary and general duties where returning officer is not the co-ordinating returning officer
  6. 57Opening of containers etc. where returning officer is not the co-ordinating returning officer
  7. 58Further provision about postal ballot papers
  8. 59The count: general
  9. 60The count: rejected ballot papers
  10. 61Re-count
  11. 62Equality of votes
  12. 63Decision on ballot papers
  13. 64Declaration of result

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Sch. 2 Pt. 4 heading substituted (9.10.2023) by The Local Elections (Principal Areas) (Single Transferable Vote) (Wales) Rules 2023 (S.I. 2023/1064), rules 1(2), 8(1)

Notes on Schedule 2

Modifications

C1

Sch. 2 applied (with modifications) (18.7.2025) by The Senedd Cymru (Representation of the People) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/864), art. 1(2), Sch. 3 paras. 22, 25 (with art. 1(4))