Look out for your polling card

Poll cards will be arriving through Orkney letterboxes this weekend for all those eligible to vote at the forthcoming UK Parliamentary General Election on May 7.

The card details where your polling station is and also how you can make arrangements for a postal or proxy vote.

Voters in Stromness and in Harray and Sandwick should note that there has been a change to their polling station.  Stromness voting will now take place in the new Warehouse Buildings at the pierhead and Harray/Sandwick voters should go to the Milestone Church in Dounby.

Fiona Ratter, the Council’s Election Manager, said: “If you don’t receive your poll card or have any queries about how to vote, then please contact the Election Office on 886350 or email electionoffice@orkney.gov.uk.

“While it’s not essential that voters bring it with them on polling day, having the poll card handy will make the process of voting quicker and more convenient.”

Enquiries relating to electoral registration and absent vote applications are dealt with by the Electoral Registration Office, 8 Broad Street, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1NX, adjacent to the Cathedral. Contact on 01856 876222 or email ero@orkney.gov.uk