%h1= @page_title = "How council elections work" %p Every four years you get to choose your local councillors and help to decide who runs = succeed "." do %a{ :href => "/bodies/sutton-council" } Sutton Council %p Sutton borough is divided into 18 areas called wards. %p Each ward has three councillors. That makes 54 councillors for the whole borough. %p You get three votes to choose three councillors for your ward from the list of candidates. %p The three people with the most votes in each ward become the councillors for that ward. %p If a political party gets 28 or more councillors they get to run Sutton Council and decide its policies and services. %p If no party gets 28 councillors the parties have to agree among themselves who will run the council. This is called “no overall control”. = haml :register, :layout => false