Electoral Services

The Electoral Services Office is responsible for the administration of all elections within the Council as well as Parliamentary elections.

This involves:

• dealing with nominations of candidates
• producing ballot papers
• issuing poll cards
• booking premises to use as polling stations
• recruiting and selecting staff to work at the polling stations
• recruiting staff to count the votes
• issuing postal votes and proxy poll cards
• counting the votes

We are also responsible for compiling and maintaining the electoral register:

This involves:

• conducting the annual canvass which involves posting out over 62,000 forms to all the properties in Torbay
• continual maintenance of the register through the process of rolling registration throughout the year
• registering special category electors including those living overseas, in the services and others

Please visit our other pages for information on the register of electors and elections.