Part I Parliamentary and Local Government Franchise and its Exercise
F1 Supplemental provisions as to local government elections
46 Further provision as to local election voting F2in England.
(1)
At a local government election for any electoral area no person shall as an elector and no person shall as proxy for any one elector—
(a)
give more than one vote for any one candidate; or
(b)
give more votes in all than the total number of councillors to be elected for the electoral area F3in England.
F4but this subsection does not apply in relation to Authority elections (where the votes allowed to be given are as specified in the applicable provisions of section 4, 10 or 16 of the 1999 Act).
(2)
No person is subject to any incapacity to vote at a local government election F5 in England by reason of his being or acting as returning officer at that election.