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%h1= @page_title = "How council elections work"

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  Every four years you get to choose your local councillors and help to decide who runs 
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    %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”.