Important information ahead of the 4 July General Election

Polling Stations might be open on 4 July between 7am and 10am. 

In an effort to vote at a polling station, you have to to current one sort of photograph ID from the listing of authorised varieties. These embrace a legitimate photograph driver’s licence, passport, MoD 90 identification card, an older or disabled particular person’s bus go and blue badge. The total listing could be discovered in your ballot card, on our Voter ID web page, and extra element could be discovered on the Electoral Fee web site.

Because the final Normal Election there have been Polling Station modifications notably in Sleaford and North Hykeham. Please seek advice from your Ballot Card when it arrives for extra data on the place your Polling Station could be discovered. 

If you happen to now not have your Ballot Card you may also discover your Polling Station on-line. You do not want your Ballot Card with the intention to vote.

If you happen to resolve to hand-deliver any unreturned postal vote, together with your individual, to a Polling Station you may be required to finish a kind. Any postal votes delivered with out this might be rejected. You may return your postal vote to any Polling Station throughout the similar constituency. For extra data see our Normal Election 2024 web page.

Don’t publish your vote into the Council Workplaces postbox because the related kind should be accomplished. Any postal votes hand-delivered should have this kind or they won’t be counted. Solely Sleaford and North Hykeham Constituency postal votes could be accepted on the NKDC workplaces in Sleaford, throughout workplace opening hours solely. 

There may be additionally now a restrict on the quantity that you may hand in – not more than 5 postal poll packs for different electors plus your individual. Political campaigners can’t deal with postal votes for different electors until they’re a detailed relative or somebody for whom they supply common care. 

Voting in native and normal elections needs to be accessible to you, whichever methodology you select to solid your vote. Please see our accessible voting web page for particular steering on accessibility when voting in particular person. There are additionally hyperlinks to assets together with from the British Deaf Affiliation and Mencap.

A council’s position is in operating the elections. It doesn’t host or promote data referring to the candidates, apart from what’s proven within the Assertion of Individuals Nominated.

For the Sleaford and North Hykeham Constituency masking nearly all of North Kesteven, the six candidates for election are:

• Martin Christopher Blake – Inexperienced Social gathering
• Benjamin Jackson – Reform UK
• Caroline Elizabeth Johnson – The Conservative Social gathering Candidate
• Hanif Ahmad Khan – Labour Social gathering
• Robert Arthur Oates – Lincolnshire Independents 
• Matthew Ray Winnington – Liberal Democrats 

Following modifications to the parliamentary boundaries 16 parish areas to the east and south of Sleaford now fall throughout the Grantham and Bourne Constituency and three parish areas on the north of the District stay within the Lincoln Constituency. 

Bracebridge Heath, Skellingthorpe and the East Ward of Waddington Parish Council vote throughout the Lincoln Constituency. The 9 candidates listed below are:

• Laura Victoria Ashby – Unbiased
• Hamish Falconer – Labour Social gathering
• Sally Anne Horscroft – Inexperienced Social gathering
• Craig Jonathan Marshall – Social Democratic Social gathering
• Karl Ian McCartney – The Conservative Social gathering Candidate
• Jamie-Lee McMillan – Reform UK
• Linda Richardson – Staff Social gathering of Britain
• Charles William Shaw – The Liberal Social gathering Candidate 
• Clare Frances Smalley – Liberal Democrats

Newly positioned into the newly-formed Grantham and Bourne Constituency are the parishes of Aswarby and Swarby, Aunsby and Dembleby, Burton Pedwardine and Burton Gorse, Culverthorpe and Kelby, Nice Hale, Heckington, Helpringham, Little Hale, Newton and Haceby, Osbournby, Scredington, Silk Willoughby, Swaton, Threekingham, Walcot and Wilsford. 
The eight candidates listed below are:

• Vipul Arvind Bechar – Labour Social gathering
• Gareth Mark Davies – The Conservative Social gathering Candidate
• Anne Elizabeth Gayfer – Inexperienced Social gathering
• Alexander Lesley Mitchell – Social Democratic Social gathering
• Charmaine Daybreak Morgan – Lincolnshire Independents
• Mike Rudkin – Reform UK
• Ian Edward Selby – Unbiased
• John William Vincent – Liberal Democrats

Unreturned postal votes for these constituencies can’t be accepted on the NKDC workplaces however should be taken to the related council workplace or a Polling Station throughout the related constituency, the place varieties will should be accomplished.

You will need to notice that these reallocations of constituency solely apply for parliamentary elections, not for different elections or district council operations.