{"id":2504,"date":"2026-06-04T08:59:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.nwclients.co.uk\/?post_type=documents_cpt&#038;p=2504"},"modified":"2026-06-04T08:59:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:59:36","slug":"community-council-election-2026-nomination-pack","status":"publish","type":"documents_cpt","link":"https:\/\/testing.nwclients.co.uk\/?documents_cpt=community-council-election-2026-nomination-pack","title":{"rendered":"Community Council Election 2026:  Nomination Pack"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">NOTE THAT THE ELECTION IS RUN BY ARGYLL &amp; BUTE COUNCIL\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">NOT<\/span> THE COMMUNITY COUNCIL<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><strong>The nomination pack provides access to all the required forms and information regarding the process of election.\u00a0 It is available for download on the Community Council website and, along with further details from:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.argyll-bute.gov.uk\/my-council\/elections\/community-council-elections-20-august-2026\">https:\/\/www.argyll-bute.gov.uk\/my-council\/elections\/community-council-elections-20-august-2026<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>More information on the role of community councils and the governance arrangement for them can be found at:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.argyll-bute.gov.uk\/my-community\/community-councils-about\">https:\/\/www.argyll-bute.gov.uk\/my-community\/community-councils-about<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Further details of the Community Council Elections can be found at:<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>ARGYLL AND BUTE COMMUNITY COUNCIL ELECTIONS 20 AUGUST 2026 TIMETABLE<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nMonday, 1 June 2026\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Electoral Register in force<br \/>\nThursday, 4 June 2026\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Publication of Notice of Election<br \/>\nFriday, 5 June 2026\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Nomination period opens<br \/>\nThursday 25 June 2026 (4pm) Close of Nominations and withdrawal of Nomination paper (if applicable)<br \/>\nThursday, 2 July 2026\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Notice of Poll (if election contested) \/ Notice of Uncontested Election (if election uncontested i.e. nominations do not exceed the number of seats on the Community Council i.e. 16 for C&amp;K)<br \/>\nThursday, 16 July 2026\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Issue of Postal Ballot Papers<br \/>\nThursday, 20 August 2026 Election Day \/ Final Date for Receipt of Postal Ballot Papers (4pm)<br \/>\nFriday 21 August 2026\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Count of Votes<\/h2>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"document_type":[50],"class_list":["post-2504","documents_cpt","type-documents_cpt","status-publish","hentry","document_type-election-information"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.nwclients.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/documents_cpt\/2504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.nwclients.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/documents_cpt"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.nwclients.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/documents_cpt"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.nwclients.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/testing.nwclients.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/documents_cpt\/2504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2510,"href":"https:\/\/testing.nwclients.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/documents_cpt\/2504\/revisions\/2510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.nwclients.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"document_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.nwclients.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fdocument_type&post=2504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}