Voting cards have started arriving for the local elections on Thursday 7 May. All the seats on East Sussex County Council (ESCC) are up for grabs and there’s also a ballot for the Rye and Winchelsea ward on Rother District Council (RDC), which was caused by the resignation of Councillor Simon McGurk.
For the Rye and Eastern Rother ward on ESCC, former Hastings and Rye MP Sally-Ann Hart hopes to replace Keith Glazier for the Conservative party. Councillor Glazier is standing down after almost 30 years as a councillor and leader of the council since 2013.
Another prominent local politician is standing for the same ward: Andrew Mier, the current chair of Rother District Council, is the Liberal Democrat’s candidate.
Also standing: Dan Bradley (Reform), Jimmy Hyatt (Independent), Dominic Manning (Green Party), Peter McLaren (Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition), and Amanda Pollard (Labour).
This graphic by Russell Hall shows how ESCC stood until the election was called.
Several candidates are also standing for election for the Rye and Winchelsea ward on RDC. The five people currently on the ballot paper are: Dan Bradley (Reform), David Cooke (Conservative), Derek Greenup (Liberal Democrat), Dominic Manning (Green) and Amanda Pollard (Labour).
Rye News is approaching all the candidates in both of those wards to write for our edition published on 1 May.
You can find all the candidate details of the other ESCC wards in the Rother area here.
There’s also an election for one seat on Northiam Parish Council. Dean Johnson and Riley Lee are the candidates.
The vacant post on Fairlight Parish Council will not be contested as Derek Greenup was the only candidate.
Image Credits: Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images https://www.picpedia.org/chalkboard/e/election.html CC https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/, Russell Hall .