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british politics
hi, so how does our (british) voting thing work. the little elections are for your cities government? and the big, generel elections are for primeminister, and leading government? and does the winning government govern the whole of the uk, or do all the parties-labour, conservative,liberal democrats- govern the country? thanx
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We have local elections which are held once every year (I believe, you might want to check on that one). The local elections are for choosing councillers for the local area. Say you had a city, within that city there would be many different areas with candidates standing for each of these areas. So nearly every area of the city would have a different counciller elected. For one area, there could be a counciller from the Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats and then smaller parties (e.g Green) as well as independant candidates (people who do not belong to a particular party).
In the local elections, the number of areas won by the different parties is not relevent to the general elections, although it can sometimes be used to predict the outcome.
The general elections are usually held once every four years. In the general elections, the public vote for the party they would like to be in government and these votes go towards seats in the House of Commons. The party who win the largest amount of seats are the party who will govern the country.
In answer to your last question, there is only one party who govern the whole country but the other parties have seats in the House of Commons and still govern areas of the UK.
I hope that made some sort of sense, it's tricky to explain.
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