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Ministry of Justice

May 2006 election pilots

The Prime Minister has agreed that those areas of political reform for which the Deputy Prime Minister will have direct responsibility should transfer from the Ministry of Justice to the Cabinet Office.

This includes responsibility for constitutional matters, devolution and electoral reform. Responsibility for the Electoral Commission, IPSA, and the Boundary Commissions has also transferred to the Cabinet Office.

The content below relates to the Ministry of Justices former responsibilities for this area.


Along with the Electoral Commission, the Association of Electoral Administrators and local authorities, we facilitated electoral modernisation pilot schemes in the May 2006 local elections.


The types of pilots included e-voting, e-counting, early voting and mobile voting.

The Electoral Commission published individual evaluations of the pilot schemes as well as six summary papers outlining their key findings in August 2006. The Government commented on the Electoral Commission's key findings in October 2006.