- 2/11/2009 – Council fails to co-opt replacement,
- 11/11/2009 – expiration of maximum period (7 days, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and other public holidays) for the clerk of the council to notify the Chief Electoral Officer that a 'casual vacancy' has occurred,
- 10/12/2009 – Publication of notice of election (within 21 days from the date on which the casual vacancy was deemed to have occurred),
- 21/12/2009 – Delivery of nomination papers (on two consecutive days, the second of which shall not later than the 7th day after the day of publication of the notice of election),
- 20/01/2010 – Polling day (not earlier than the 18th nor later than the 21st day after the last day for delivery of nomination papers)
Update:
Scrap everything above! (Thanks to reader David).
The EONI have published the timetable for the election, and it will be a week earlier than the date above:
"The election to fill the vacancy for the Lurgan district electoral area of Craigavon Borough Council will take place on Wednesday 13 January 2010".
3 comments:
I can see you put a lot of work into working out the dates etc but the date has already been set for the by election - 13th January.
Nominations close on Friday 11th December.
http://www.eoni.org.uk/
David
LOL David,
I didn't put in 'a lot of work' - the legislation is well known, and the timetable is a simple calculation!
However, I don't see anything on the EONI website to confirm the date (a week earler than my estimate - though I did say it was the latest likely date).
I hope you're right, though. I need a good election around now. It'll brighten up the dull days of January!
David,
Apologies; I see the EONI info now. I made the mistake of looking for it on their 'elections' page. Strangle, it isn't there, but on the 'home' page (which I rarely look at!)
I'll amend the blog above accordingly.
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