Should you rank every candidate in the council elections - or just the ones you like?

Scotland will go to the polls on May 5 to elect councillors to its 32 local authorities

VOTERS across Scotland will soon go to the polls to have their say on who will run their local councils for the next five years.

But the single transferable vote (STV) system used for the local authority elections on May 5 differs significantly from the systems used to elect members of parliament.