(Image: Exeter City Council)
Exeter residents will take to the polls next Thursday, 1 May, for a major day of local decision-making, with elections taking place for both Exeter City Council and Devon County Council.
Two city council seats are being contested following the resignations of Labour councillors Naima Allcock (Mincinglake and Whipton) and Joshua Ellis-Jones (Topsham).
While these by-elections are limited to their respective wards, the entire city will be voting in elections for all nine of Exeter’s county council divisions.
Despite the by-election shake-up, Labour will retain overall control of Exeter City Council, holding 23 of 39 seats ahead of the vote.
Mincinglake and Whipton
Martin Ayres – Green Party
Ian Anthony Baldwin – Conservative Party
Paula Black – Labour and Co-operative Party
Angela Martin – Independent
Tony Payne – Reform UK
Paul Stephen Richards – Liberal Democrat
Topsham
James Elie Cookson – Labour Party
Edward Clive Andrew Hill – Reform UK
Keith Andrew Sparkes – Conservative Party
Philip Alexander Thomas – Liberal Democrat
Greg Wotton – Green Party
The county council vote will determine who represents Exeter’s nine divisions on Devon County Council. Labour currently holds six of these seats, with the Conservatives holding the remaining three.
Here’s who’s standing in each area:
Alphington and Cowick
Yvonne Atkinson – Labour and Co-operative Party
Lucille Baker – Conservative Party
Holly Gillett – Green Party
Vanessa Newcombe – Liberal Democrat
Neil Stevens – Reform UK
Duryard and Pennsylvania
Tony Badcott – Labour and Co-operative Party
Bernadette Chelvanayagam – Green Party
Rob Hannaford – Conservative Party
James Donald Holman – Reform UK
Michael Norman Mitchell – Liberal Democrat
Exwick and St Thomas
Andy Cooper – Green Party
John Harvey – Labour and Co-operative Party
Jamie Liam Horner – Liberal Democrat
Kayleigh Luscombe – Conservative Party
Tony Stevens – Reform UK
Heavitree and Whipton Barton
Tina Beer – Reform UK
Jack Stanley Eade – Green Party
Katherine Helen New – Conservative Party
Liz Pole – Labour and Co-operative Party
Paul Stephen Richards – Liberal Democrat
Pinhoe and Mincinglake
Martin Ayres – Green Party
Ian Anthon Baldwin – Conservative Party
Paula Joan Black – Labour and Co-operative Party
Christine Anne Campion – Liberal Democrat
Edward Clive Andrew Hill – Reform UK
St Davids and Haven Banks
Myles Jefferson Hatcher – Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
Andy Ketchin – Green Party
Rose Lelliott – Labour and Co-operative Party
Rob Newby – Conservative Party
Rod Ruffle – Liberal Democrat
Fran Wroe – Reform UK
St Sidwells and St James
Will Aczel – Liberal Democrat
Lucy Findlay – Labour and Co-operative Party
David Luscombe – Conservative Party
Thomas Morgan Richardson – Green Party
Jo Westlake – Reform UK
Wearside and Topsham
Rosie Green – Green Party
Andrew Robert Leadbetter – Conservative Party
Chris Owen – Reform UK
Philip Alexander Thomas – Liberal Democrat
Carol Whitton – Labour Party
Wonford and St Loyes
Anne Margaret Jobson – Conservative Party
Johanna Franziska Korndorfer – Green Party
Adrian Lock – Liberal Democrat
Dave Mutton – Labour Party
Angela Nash – Reform UK
Polling stations open from 7am to 10pm on Thursday 1 May.
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