Test results for Elections - find out when the next ones are

Here is the table of test results for this task. The score on each row is out of a possible total of 20, and the importance column is a rating of 1-5 according to how important testers considered being able to complete this task was.

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CouncilNavigationA-ZGoogleSite searchScoreTestsImportance
Birmingham City CouncilDifficultEasyDifficult63
Birmingham City CouncilEasyEasyVery easy143
Birmingham City CouncilVery easyVery easyVery easy-33
Birmingham City CouncilVery easyGave upDifficult-55
Borough Council of WellingboroughVery easyVery easyVery easy50
Bracknell Forest CouncilEasyEasyVery easy143
Brent CouncilVery easyVery easyVery easy153
Brent CouncilGave upGave upGave up-123
Bristol City CouncilEasyVery easyVery easy165
Bristol City CouncilEasyVery easyEasy91
Bristol City CouncilVery easyVery easyVery easy203
Buckinghamshire County CouncilGave upGave upGave up-121
Calderdale CouncilDifficultVery easyDifficult33
Carlisle City CouncilGave upDifficultGave up-80
Cheshire East CouncilEasyEasyEasy123
Coventry City CouncilVery easyVery easyVery easy205
Coventry City CouncilVery easyVery easyVery easy203
Coventry City CouncilVery easyEasyDifficult123
Croydon CouncilVery easyGave upGave up-93
Dumfries and Galloway Council
East Lothian CouncilEasyVery easyVery easy43
Great Yarmouth Borough CouncilGave upGave upGave up-123
Great Yarmouth Borough CouncilGave upVery easyEasy103
Harrow CouncilVery easyVery easyGave up-63
Harrow CouncilVery easyGave upGave up-93
Hinkley and Bosworth Borough CouncilVery easyVery easyVery easy183
Lambeth CouncilGave upGave upGave up-120
Leeds City CouncilGave upGave upGave up-125
Liverpool City CouncilGave upGave upGave up-123
London Borough of LewishamVery easyVery easyDifficult165
Manchester City CouncilVery easyVery easyVery easy153
Monmouthshire County CouncilVery easyEasyEasy90
Newcastle City CouncilGave upGave upGave up-123
Plymouth City CouncilVery easyEasyEasy93
Royal Borough of Kensington and ChelseaVery easyVery easyGave up-10
Surrey County CouncilDifficultVery easyDifficult33
Surrey County CouncilDifficultVery easyEasy121
Walsall CouncilGave upVery easyGave up-90
Wandsworth CouncilGave upGave upGave up-123
Warwick District CouncilVery easyVery easyVery easy183
West Lindsey District CouncilGave upVery easyVery easy125
West Lindsey District CouncilGave upVery easyVery easy125
Wychavon District CouncilVery easyVery easyDifficult73

Specific comments made about this task

Birmingham City Council - 2013-12-02
Buried at the bottom of /election, with information about Croatia at the top; /voting is a potentially redundant page

Birmingham City Council - 2016-07-14
Getting to the elections page was easy, but there was nothing about when the next scheduled elections might be

Birmingham City Council - 2017-01-11
I found the date of the next election from an internal search which took me to an election results page, almost as a footnote. I wouldn't expect to find the date of the next election on the page about past elections. Couldn't find any information by navigating.

Brent Council - 2014-08-17
Only May 2014 mentioned, there is no mention of next election date, not even a probable year for next election. "V"? LOL

Buckinghamshire County Council - 2014-08-05
Easy to find links to last election results but nowhere could I find the next election date.

Calderdale Council - 2015-08-12
have every other piece of information about elections availible excluding when the next one is held...

Carlisle City Council - 2014-06-17
The information does not appear to be on the website - there is a link saying "find out when the next elections are" but it doesn't tell you when you get to the page. Some information is out of date ("the next County elections are in 2013").The elections results link doesn't take you to the 2014 election results - they are on a separate page. Google didn't help until, on a whim, I put in elections 2015 and found the following link, which, if you scroll right down, shows that there will be an election in Carlisle in 2015: http://www.gwydir.demon.co.uk/uklocalgov/elec2015.htm

Cheshire East Council - 2015-07-13
Shows last election results, but not when the next elections are.

Coventry City Council - 2014-02-06
All of these search methods were easy. They were straight forward and basic as there wasn't alot of scrolling or clicking involved. I had no problems with it.

Croydon Council - 2024-10-10
No information about the next election on the site

Dumfries and Galloway Council - 2015-08-18
only issue is the site should account for search term spelling errors and suggest what they might have meant

Great Yarmouth Borough Council - 2014-09-04
A-Z error message

Lambeth Council - 2014-06-07
Don't think this info exists on Lambeth. The Election guide is referring to 22 May, which has already passed.

Liverpool City Council - 2015-01-14
it's very easy to find links to last election results and information about elections, but nowhere could I find the next election date.

Monmouthshire County Council - 2014-03-24
I could not find information about the next Council Election but there were two notices about two single seat elections. I assume the date of the next Council elections has not yet been formally announced. I rated Readability "difficult" because I had to open the notice to find the date information. This was slow on my laptop. It would have been easier if the date had actually been on the web page

Surrey County Council - 2014-02-10
No information on the site about when the next council elections are. Landing page strapline says find out about upcoming elections, but no information is given on the content page.

Surrey County Council - 2014-02-24
There was no information about when the next council elections are. Council Elections was not in the A-Z

Walsall Council - 2014-02-06
Go to elections pages easily but could see anything obvious about the next election

Warwick District Council - 2022-04-18
Getting to the page was easy but all the information was historic (2021).

Wychavon District Council - 2017-07-21
Elections main page details the work of the electoral and registration services - you have to click on a link labelled 'current elections' to find the dates of the next elections. For the Google search at least the text preview on the results page was more explicit.