Scores of Liverpool schools are set to host polling stations in next month's General Election.
With voters set to elect a new parliament on December 12, local authorities have released the lists of polling stations across our city .
And when hundreds of thousands of voters go to the polls across Liverpool's five constituencies, many of them will be voting in schools.
Here are the 55 schools that are set to be polling locations next month.
- Hunts Cross Primary School, Kingsthorne Road, Liverpool
- Stockton Wood Primary School, 23 All Saints Road, Liverpool
- Woolton Primary School, Out Lane, Liverpool
- Abbots Lea School, Beaconsfield Road, Liverpool
- Pleasant Street Primary School, Pleasant Street, Liverpool
- St. Anne's Catholic Primary School, Overbury Street, Liverpool
- Greenbank Primary School, Mossley Avenue Entrance, Liverpool
- Booker Avenue Junior School, Booker Avenue, Liverpool
- Abercromby Nursery School, Falkner Street, Liverpool
- St. Vincent De Paul Primary School, Pitt Street, Liverpool
- St. Patrick's Catholic Primary School, Upper Hill Street, Liverpool
- Holy Family Catholic Primary School, Liverpool
- St. Finbar's Catholic Primary School, South Hill Road, Liverpool
- Matthew Arnold Primary School, Dingle Lane, Liverpool
- Anfield Road Primary School, 125 Anfield Road, Liverpool
- Leamington Community Primary School, Leamington Road, Liverpool
- Florence Melly Primary School, Bushey Road, Liverpool
- St. Francis De Sales Infant & Nursery School, Margaret Road, Liverpool
- Notre Dame Catholic College, 180 Great Homer Street, Liverpool
- Whitefield Primary School, Boundary Lane, Liverpool
- Barlows Primary School, Barlows Lane, Liverpool
- Fazakerley Primary School, Formosa Way, Liverpool
- Longmoor Community Primary School, Longmoor Lane, Liverpool
- Childwall Abbey School, Childwall Lane, Liverpool
- Northway Primary & Nursery School, Northway, Liverpool
- Dovedale Primary School, Herondale Road, Liverpool
- New Park Primary School, 100 Boaler Street, Liverpool
- Phoenix Primary School, Birchfield Road, Liverpool
- Kensington Primary School, Bell Tower Lane, Liverpool
- St. Anne (Stanley) C.E School, Prescot Road, Liverpool
- St. Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School, Aviemore Road, Liverpool
- St. Oswald's Catholic Primary School, Montague Road, Liverpool
- Broadgreen Primary School, Entrance: Rossall Road, Liverpool
- St. Hugh's Catholic Primary School, Earle Road, Liverpool
- St. Anne's Catholic Primary School, Overbury Street, Liverpool
- Christ the King Primary, Meadway, Liverpool
- Mosspits Lane Primary School, Mosspits Lane, Liverpool
- The Blue Coat School, East Wing Chapel Entrance, Church Road
- Croxteth Primary School, Liverpool
- Sandfield Park School, Sandfield Walk, Liverpool
- Dovecot Primary School, Grant Road, Liverpool
- Knotty Ash Primary School, Thomas Lane, Liverpool
- East Prescot Road Nursery School, 86 East Prescot Road, Liverpool
- Ranworth Square Primary School, Ranworth Square, Liverpool
- St.Teresa of Lisieux Catholic Primary School, 163 Utting Avenue East, Liverpool
- Monksdown Primary School, Liverpool
- Wellesbourne Primary School, Abbotsford Road, Liverpool
- St.Margaret`s Anfield C.E Primary, Lower Breck Road, Liverpool
- West Derby Library At, West Derby Comprehensive School, West Derby Road
- St.Cecilia's Infant & Nursery School, Snaefell Avenue, Liverpool
- St.Paul's Catholic Junior School, Spring Grove, Liverpool
- Holly Lodge Girls' College, 140 Mill Lane, Liverpool
- Blackmoor Park Junior School, Leyfield Road, Liverpool
- Mab Lane Primary School, Mab Lane, Liverpool
- Blueberry Park Primary School, Ackers Hall Avenue, Liverpool
Will any of Liverpool's schools be closed on polling day?
It it is not required that a school shuts while acting as a polling station - and so far the indications are that the vast majority of schools will stay open.
Here are the schools that have so far announced that they will be completely closed on polling day.
- Abbots Lea Primary
- Dovedale Primary
- Whitefield Primary
- St. Cuthbert’s Primary
What happens if my child's school is closed?
If your child's school is closed, the school will contact all parents to inform them.
For many parents, this can lead to disruption to work or other commitments, particularly as other facilities like children's centres can also be closed on election day in order to provide polling places.
Closing schools on election days is common, and the main piece of guidance schools are given is that they have to make up that lost day of education somewhere else in the academic year.
Why are so many schools used as polling stations?
In order to make sure that everyone can vote as easily as possible, local authorities try to pick locations with high levels of accessibility as polling stations.
Given laws around accessibility, this often means that schools, leisure centres and other public buildings offer the best location in a given area to act as a polling station.
In addition, because the vast majority of the buildings are owned by the council , there tend to be far fewer external costs because the council does not have to rent the building from a private body.
