Why do parties have more than one candidate listed?published at 14:25 BST
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Why do many of the parties have more than one candidate on the
white voting paper? The name of the candidate I want for my area
appears third so very confused. Anne Craig, from Edinburgh.
Phil Sim, political correspondent, says:
A postal voting pack contains a number of items, which can make
the process a little confusing.
There’s a constituency ballot paper – usually lilac-coloured –
which includes individual candidates for your local seat.
There’s a regional ballot paper – usually peach-coloured – which
includes parties standing in your wider region. In the case of Edinburgh and
Lothians East, this will include 18 different parties and four independent
candidates.
And, crucially for this question, there is a separate
sheet with the names of the candidates each party has included on their
regional lists. I think this is probably the white paper Anne is referring to.
So you mark a single candidate on the constituency paper, a single
party (or independent) on the regional paper, and seal them in the included
envelope A.
Then you fill out the “postal voting statement” form,
pop that and the ballot paper envelope inside the other included
envelope, marked B, and head off to the post box.
