Electoral Services

We are responsible for the administration of all elections within the District Council area as well as Parliamentary and European elections. This involves:

dealing with nominations of candidates
producing ballot papers
producing poll cards
booking premises to use as polling stations
recruiting and selecting staff to work at the polling stations or to count the votes
issuing postal votes and proxy poll card
counting the votes

In addition to this, we are responsible for producing and maintaining the electoral register.

Our aim is to encourage all members of the public to participate in the electoral process.

The Electoral Services team:

The Electoral Services team can be contacted by:
Tel: 01453 754886 or E-mail: elections@stroud.gov.uk

Our aim is to:

Answer your queries as quickly, efficiently and helpfully as possible. Our targets are to:

Answer 98% of telephone calls within 3 rings
Acknowledge letters and e-mails within 1 working day
Reply to all letters and e-mails within 4 working days
Attend to personal callers immediately

We try to resolve issues within these time-scales wherever possible. If you are unhappy with the service you receive, please let us know.

Complaints and Feedback

If you have a complaint we will do our best to put things right wherever possible. We will be more than happy to listen to you. In addition, any feedback that you want to give us can help improve our service to the whole district. An outside opinion will often lead to improvements that we have overlooked.

We work to a strict complaints procedure - please contact any of the members of the Electoral Services team given above.

If you wish to take your complaint further please contact:
The Complaints Officer at Ebley Mill - 01453 754444 complain@stroud.gov.uk

Alternatively, you can complain using the Council's on-line procedure - complain on-line using our form