Catalogue description Home Office: Elections (LXN Symbol Series) Files

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Details of HO 328
Reference: HO 328
Title: Home Office: Elections (LXN Symbol Series) Files
Description:

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.
Date: 1950-2000
Arrangement:

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.
Related material:

See also Records of the Parliamentary Boundary Commissions for England and Wales: AF
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: LXN Symbol file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 431 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1988 Home Office
Accruals: Series is accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

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.

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