Voting Behaviour
(asked on 1st June 2018) - View Source
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment the Government has made of the potential effect on trends in the level of voting in elections of opening polling stations at weekends.
This question was answered on 8th June 2018
Previous pilots of weekend voting showed no significant variation in turnout and the consultation undertaken by the Labour Government in 2009 showed that a majority of respondents favoured retaining polling on a weekday and that moving to weekend voting could double or even triple costs.