Rochester and Strood Constituency Conservative Association has announced its candidates for the local elections to be held next May.
11 of the 22 candidates selected by party members in the nine ward branches are sitting councillors, with the other half either replacing retiring or de-selected councillors, or contesting seats not currently held by the Conservatives.
The candidates [...]
The Conservative candidate in the River Ward by-election, David Craggs, has beaten Labour’s John Jones by over 70 votes.
With just 25.3% of River Ward’s 5,484 voters either turning out, appointing a proxy or posting their vote, David Craggs secured a 73-vote majority over Labour’s John Jones when votes were declared less than 90 minutes after [...]
For many Medway residents, the general election will not be the only time they head for the polls this year.
Residents in Gillingham North, Gillingham South, Rainham Central, River, Rochester East, Rochester South and Horsted and Rochester West wards all face the prospects of a second visit to the polling station weeks after the general election.
Of [...]
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Labour Councillor Bill Esterson has been selected to fight the Sefton Central constituency at this year’s general election, ahead of a local councillor and a civil servant.
Cllr Esterson, who held his seat on River ward in 2007 whilst his colleague lost to the Conservatives’ Craig MacKinlay, is looking at a notional majority of 4,950, according [...]
Labour’s candidates for the 2011 local elections have been announced – via one of the candidates’ twitter feed.
Amongst the selections for the two wards are the three sitting councillors in Chatham Central and Medway blogger Tristan Osborne for what was once Labour’s safest seat, Luton and Wayfield.
Chatham Central councillors Vince Maple (pictured), Julie Shaw and [...]
