Marfleet residents and traders on the Hull City Council ward losing the will to vote
Residents and traders of Marfleet weighed in on why the ward is among the lowest for turnout in local elections
05:00, 25 APR 2021 (Image: Hull Live)
Local elections in Hull and across the country on Thursday, May 6 are set to take place in unusual times.
Voters will head to the polls against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic, a health crisis on a scale not seen since the Spanish Flu outbreak more than a century ago.
The pandemic will make it an election with a difference, but one constant theme which could return are low turnouts which persistently dog council polls.
The areas of Hull where hardly anyone votes in local elections
Eight Hull City Council wards had turnouts of less than 20 per cent in the last local elections in 2019
05:00, 24 APR 2021
Marfleet ward has one of the lowest election turnouts in England. (Image: Hull Live)
Low voter turnout tends to be feature of local elections, and polls for Hull City Council have historically been no exception.
The proportion of registered voters who turned out to vote in the last Hull City Council elections in 2019 was 22.6 per cent.
In contrast, turnout in the city s three parliamentary constituencies of Hull North, Hull West and Hessle and Hull East averaged around 51 per cent in the 2019 general election.