Electoral services

We play a key role in elections. We are responsible for organising and conducting elections, parish polls and referenda as and when required, which includes dealing with the following:

• nomination of candidates
• production of ballot papers
• sending of poll cards
• polling stations
• recruitment of polling station, postal vote and count staff
• issuing and opening of postal votes
• verifying and counting the votes
• maintaining electoral statistics
• registering people to vote inc. special category electors
• conducting the annual canvass of electors
• production and distribution of the register of electors
• boundary reviews and the implementation of boundary changes
• implementation of new legislation within statutory timescales

Teignbridge District is divided into 91 Polling Districts which are used to create various ward boundaries:

50 parishes - 43 of these are represented by Town and Parish Councils returning 407 Parish Councillors while the remaining 7 are represented by Parish Meetings,

24 district wards returning 47 District Councillors,

10 Electoral Divisions returning 10 County Councillors,

2 parliamentary constituencies, Newton Abbot and Central Devon, returning 1 Member of Parliament each.