English Parliament and Elections
electorial register. Nobody is obliged to vote.
Polling day
Elections take pace on Thursday and the day is not a holiday. Everybody goes to work and the
stations are open for a long time so everybody can vote. Only children have day off because
schools are used for voting stations. Each voter has to vote at a particular station. After being
ticked off on the electorial system he/she receives the ballot paper. In the British mainlands
everything is quite ok and nothing is confusig, but in Northern Ireland it has a had a negative
effect on democracy for years. After polls close ballot papers are takes to be counted to the
central place in the constituency. The Returning Officer makes a public announcement of the
votes cast for each candidate and declares the winner of the constituency to become the MP.
Election night
The period after voting has become a television magnet. The first excitement is the declaring.
Some constituencies want to be the first one to declare
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