Home Office: Elections (LXN Symbol Series) Files

Files from the Home Office LXN (Elections) series, concerning the franchise and registration of electors, the conduct of elections, and the regulation of election campaigns. The series includes departmental files relating to the activities of the Standing Parliamentary Boundary Commission for England, for which the Home Office provided the secretariat until 1969, as well as correspondence with the Local Government Commission for England dating from 1959. Also included are papers concerned with the alteration of local government electoral divisions.

The papers in HO 328 are arranged in numerical order by departmental file number. The inclusion of a date preceding a file number (as in LXN (1960) 3/4/1) indicates that the year in which the file was created was included in the file reference number. Thus the full departmental reference of a file listed as LXN (1960) 3/4/1 would be LXN/60 3/4/1.

See also Records of the Parliamentary Boundary Commissions for England and Wales: AF

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The Home Office is responsible for the administration of the electoral process in Great Britain for both parliamentary and local government elections, as principally defined by the Representation of the People Acts 1949 and 1969, the Local Government Act 1933, and the Local Government Elections Act 1956. These responsibilities, currently discharged by 'D' Division of the Equal Opportunities and General Department, and previously by the General Department of the Home Office, include the franchise and registration of electors, the conduct of elections, and the regulation of election campaigns.