A review of London's 2021 elections

The London Assembly Election Review Working Group has investigated all aspects of the 2021 elections with evidence from candidate teams and administrators and has produced its report ^[1]into the polls. Recommendations include:

• More measures are needed to support blind and partially sighted voters, and London Elects should reach out to the RNIB for advice.
• With a record number of rejected votes and a late redesign of ballot papers to include a large number of candidates, more should be done in future to test ballot paper designs in advance, and communication of how to vote should be more widely promoted.
• By the next election, more consistency in the voting rights of citizens of the different EU Member States is needed, so the Government should pursue further reciprocal voting agreements as quickly as possible and include other nations outside the EU in this work, which could extend voting rights to more Londoners.
• Given the wide range of risks to the delivery of any general election on the same day as GLA elections, if the government chooses to hold a general election on a date that clashes with the GLA election period, then it should move the GLA elections to a suitable alternative date.