"mainlands" - 1 õppematerjal

English Parliament and Elections

Eligible voting age is 18 and the person has to be on the 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.