ABOUT a sixth of all voters in a North-East city have returned their ballot papers for next week's all-postal election.
Returning officer Ged Fitzgerald yesterday confirmed the number of voting papers returned for Sunderland by 4pm as 34,965, or 16.6 per cent.
Royal Mail reported that, across the region, 185,000 votes have been returned through the post so far. That represents 9.7 per cent of the total 1.9 million votes now issued in the North-East.
Sunderland City Council has also set up reception points where residents can hand in their votes.
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