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Forms and notices for local elections in Scotland

On this page you will find templates for the forms and notices required to enable voters to vote in local elections in Scotland on 3 May 2012.

All documents are available as Word templates by clicking on the links in the table below.

Poll cards, postal voting statements and postal voting guides

Click here for full instructions on how to use the templates for poll cards, postal voting statements and postal voting guides

Printers and designers can download generic InDesign files for each document type. Please note: the artwork files are not specific to Scotland and contain example text which needs to be replaced with the correct text from the Word templates for Scotland below.

Download the InDesign files (ZIP)

Notices

Click here for instructions on how to use the template notices

Poll card	Ordinary Ordinary - anonymous Postal Proxy Proxy for anonymous Proxy postal Proxy postal - anonymous Elector with proxy Anonymous elector with proxy
Postal voting statement	Local
Postal voting guide	STV election
Guidance for voters	Note for the notices in alternative languages we have provided a pdf example of how each notice should look, so you can check that the language is displayed correctly. If you have any difficulties using these templates, please contact us. Local - English (DOC) Local - Arabic (DOC) \| Local - Arabic (pdf example) Local - Bengali (DOC) \| Local - Bengali (pdf example) Local - Chinese (traditional) (DOC) \| Local - Chinese (traditional) (pdf example) Local - Gaelic (DOC) \| Local - Gaelic (pdf example) Local - Polish (DOC) \| Local - Polish (pdf example) Local - Punjabi (DOC) \| Local - Punjabi (pdf example) Local - Urdu (DOC) \| Local - Urdu (pdf example)