Polling takes place tomorrow in the Landward Caithness by-election
30th April 2013
Tomorrow (Thursday 2 May 2013) voting begins in the Landward Caithness By-election with polling stations open their doors at 7am and remaining open for people to come and vote until 10pm.
The electorate for the Ward is 8,546. Any of the 1,428 people who have applied for a postal vote who may not have yet posted them are reminded that they can hand their postal votes into any of the polling stations up until 10 pm tomorrow.
The 14 polling stations are:
• Castletown Drill Hall
• Reay Hall
• Ross Institute, Halkirk
• Bower Community Hall
• Watten Hall
• Britannia Hall Dunnet
• Canisbay Hall
• Keiss Amenities Hall
• Reiss Hall
• Assembly Rooms, Wick
• Thrumster Hall
• Lybster Community Centre
• Dunbeath Village Hall
• Free Church Hall, Millbank Road, Thurso
The count will take place on Friday 3 May at Wick Assembly Rooms starting at 9.30 am.
The candidates are:
· David Baron, Scottish Labour Party
· Gillian Coghill
· Hanna Miedema, Scottish National Party (SNP)
· Barbara Anne Watson, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party Candidate
The make-up of The Highland Council currently is: Independent 34, SNP 21, Liberal Democrats 14, Labour 8, Independent Nationalist 2
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