Voters may (or may not) have received polling cards, campaign leaflets through the letterbox, or even found aspiring councillors on their doorstep.
The survey, carried out in the past week, found Conservative councillors' net happiness with the performance of their party's national leadership since 2010 stood at 33.4% compared with Labour's 39.1%.
Yet the report found that councillors failed to engage with the town's Pakistani-heritage community during the inquiry period.
A Local Government Chronicle survey of councillors has found that Labour councillors are more confident about their party winning a majority at the election than Conservative ones.
The auditors also found the councillor in charge of planning, Anthony Negus, felt officers managing the process were not listening to him.
I was amazed, I told him to go into the members' lounge and find five councillors as large as Cyril Smith.
But an investigation by the Commissioner for Ethical Standards in Public Life in Scotland found the four councillors had not broken the Councillors' Code of Conduct.
Mr Jones said he found it "extraordinary" councillors never considered resigning.
A Sunday Politics survey of 101 UKIP councillors found 70% had previously been Conservative voters, 7% had backed Labour and 1% had voted Liberal Democrat.
A Bill introduced in the House of Commons in May 1891 permitting women to serve as county councillors found little support among MPs of any party; women were not granted this right until 1907.
Further down the list you find Alan Mendoza, Tory councillor and ConservativeHome blogger, and Richard Harrington, Conservative candidate for Watford.
