2004 Preston City Council election

High school (ages 12+)
People & Society

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/2004-preston-city-council-election

1. What is the location?
2. What is the election date?
3. What was special about the voting method in the 2004 Preston City Council election?
4. How many seats did the Labour Party win in 2004, and how many votes did they get?

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the location?Preston, Lancashire, England
2. What is the election date?10 June 2004
3. What was special about the voting method in the 2004 Preston City Council election?It was one of the first UK local elections to use an all‑postal vote, where every registered voter got a ballot by mail and sent it back instead of going to a polling station.
4. How many seats did the Labour Party win in 2004, and how many votes did they get?Labour won 7 wards and received 10,445 votes, which was 28% of the total city vote.

Elected in Thirds: An electoral system where approximately one-third of council seats are contested in each election year.
All Postal Vote: An election where all ballots are sent and returned by mail, as opposed to in-person voting.
Vote Share: The percentage of total votes cast for a particular political party or candidate in an election.