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Cost of local authority elections.

RFI-2025-0009
Friday, 3 January 2025

Request

Find below a Freedom of Information request relating to the cost of local authority elections.

Please provide between January 2021- December 2024:

1• How often local election cycles are held excluding by-elections. For example, the full council is elected every four years or a third of councillors are elected every year except the county council year.

2• The year or years local elections took place in the latest cycle since 2021 excluding by-elections. For example, if there is one local election where all councillors are elected once every four years then provide the year in which that election was held. If councillors are elected by thirds over a four year period then provide all years within the time period that these elections took place in the latest cycle to elect all councillors.

3• The total cost of each local council election held excluding by-elections broken down by election. For example, if there is one election where all councillors are elected once every four years then provide the cost of running that election. If councillors are elected by thirds over a four year period then provide the costs for each of those three elections in the latest cycle.

Please see an example response below:
Full election date Cost of election
May-21 X
May-22 X
May-23 X
May-24 X

Response

Please find below the Councils response to the questions in this FOI. Please note this is only in relation to Newark & Sherwood District Council elections (information regarding County elections should be directed to Nottinghamshire County Council or Parish/Town elections to each Parish/Town Council).

1/ The full District Council is elected every four years.

2/ Thursday 4 May 2022

3/ May-2023 : £174,021.59