{"id":3357,"date":"2024-03-04T12:29:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T12:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/?p=3357"},"modified":"2024-03-04T12:29:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T12:29:19","slug":"local-elections-thu-02-may-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/2024\/03\/04\/local-elections-thu-02-may-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Elections &#8211; Thu 02 May 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dorsetcouncil-newsroom.prgloo.com\/news\/voters-encouraged-to-get-their-id-ready-ahead-of-this-years-local-elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">https:\/\/dorsetcouncil-newsroom.prgloo.com\/news\/voters-encouraged-to-get-their-id-ready-ahead-of-this-years-local-elections<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Residents are reminded that they will need be registered to vote and show an approved form of photo ID when they go to the polling stations on Thursday,<strong> 02 May 2024<\/strong> to elect for Dorset Council councillors as well as Town and Parish Councils. The Police and Crime Commissioner elections also takes place on the same day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To cast your vote in the upcoming elections, you must be registered by Tuesday, <strong>16 April, 2024<\/strong>. If you\u2019re not already registered, you can complete the process on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click.mailerlite.com\/link\/c\/YT0yNDA4ODA3ODM5NTY1ODc4OTM1JmM9ZjZtMyZiPTEyODA0MDkxNzAmZD11OHI3cTNq.ywBxGgGti-9FXxzR6w_i-ssqpnd4W2q6At9tpQ2u1-E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Government\u2019s website<\/a>. Voters only need to register once, unless they have changed their name or address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dorset Council reminds residents to register and prepare photo ID for voting in the local elections on May 2, 2024. This includes Dorset Council, town, parish councils, and Police and Crime Commissioner elections. Registration is open until April 16, 2024, on the Government&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-past","category-notice","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2MmHE-S9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 23:11:30","action":"Draft","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3358,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357\/revisions\/3358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}