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You must be on the electoral register to vote in elections.
Registering takes around 5 minutes. You will need your National Insurance number (if you have one).
The deadline to register to vote in the May 6th 2021 election was Monday 19th April.
You could have used this service to register to vote and/or
update your name, address or other details on the electoral register.
The polling station was in the main part of Willersey Village Hall. This was to maximise social distancing and ventilation. It was open from 7:00am until 10:00pm.
You did not have to bring your poll card with you but it was helpful if you did as it speeds up the voting process.
All voters were required to wear a face covering (unless exempt) and sanitise their hands on arrival. There was a limit to the number of voters allowed into the station at any one time.
Voters could also bring their own pencil/pen to mark their ballot papers if they wish – individual pencils were available for those who didn't bring their own.
Here is a video about voting at this election.
The elections that took place on May 6th 2021 were:
· Police and Crime Commissioner for Gloucestershire
· Gloucestershire County Council – eight county divisions across the Cotswold District. Willersey is in the Campden-Vale Division.
· Cotswold District Council - Fosseridge Ward (by-election due to the resignation of Julian Beale)
· Parish/Town Councils – a number of parish and town council by-elections across the Cotswold District.
· Three Neighbourhood Plan Referenda in parish areas
Details of all the elections and relevant documents were found on the Cotswold DC website.
Here is the Gloucestershire County Council notice of election
The Police and Crime Commissioner notice is here. The Gloucester City council Returning Officer is responsible for this election.
For the Gloucester County Council election Willersey voters had a choice between four candidates:-
Here is the official result.
| CALLINAN John |
Labour Party |
200 |
| MCNEIL-WILSON Robert |
Reform UK |
359 |
| STOWE Lynden Oliver |
The Conservative Party Candidate |
2323 Elected |
| TURNER Clare Victoria |
Green Party |
735 |
For the Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) election Willersey voters had a choice between four candidates:-
Here is the result. Conservative Chris Nelson beat the now outgoing PCC Martin Surl.
Candidates
The notice of election opened the period when nominations could be received and copies of the nomination paper pack were included on the Cotswold DC website for anyone wishing to stand in the election.
Anyone wishing to stand as a candidate in any of the elections needed to submit a nomination paper by 4pm on Thursday 8th April 2021.
Poll cards were be sent to electors from 26th March. Where there is a change to a person's address, name or voting method e.g. you could apply for a postal vote, an updated poll card was
issued and these were posted in batches between 31st March and 20th April.
More information around the local elections for 2021 was found at the Cotswold DC website.
The Cotswolds Constituency covers the entire Cotswold District together with three Stroud District Council wards (Kingswood, Minchinhampton, Wotton-under-Edge). The overall Parliamentary electorate is
currently around 77,500. The last Parliamentary Election was held on 6th May 2010, when the electorate then was 76,729 and turnout was 71.65%.
The elections to Cotswold District Council on May 7th 2015 were the first to be conducted in line with the revised arrangements and boundaries introduced as a result of a
recent electoral review carried out by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England. Overall, the number of councillors has been reduced from 44 to 34, with 30 single-member wards
and 2 two-member wards (Campden & Vale in the north of the District; and Lechlade, Kempsford & Fairford South in the south-east corner of the District). All 34 seats were up for election.
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