In the interests of openness and transparency in the Claughton byelection, I am publishing the nomination papers of each candidate during the election rather than after.
These are open to public inspection until 3rd May 2017 (the day before the poll).
Each form contains the candidates’ address, date of birth and the names of ten electors in Claughton who support their candidacy (referred to as proposer, seconder and eight assentors).
Each candidate has to sign to state they accept the nomination.
In addition to the nomination paper and candidates’ consent to nomination, candidates standing on behalf of a political party have to submit extra paperwork around the use of descriptions and party logos on ballot papers. This paperwork is not included here.
In order to be fair, the list is alphabetical by candidate surname (which is the order they will be on the ballot paper).
There is no deposit required to stand as a candidate for local councillor.
Please note each file below is a multi-page TIFF bitmap file.
If for whatever reason a candidate’s nomination paper is invalid* a Returning Officer (in this case Eric Robinson) can disqualify that candidate before the result is declared.
*There are 101 reasons it could be, but some have been corrected to correct errors.
I’d like to thank Wirral Council for the time involved in supplying the above information.
Polling day for the Claughton byelection is Thursday 4th May 2017.
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Who are the 103 candidates in the 2016 Wirral Council elections?
Polling card Bidston and St James ward 2016 frontPolling card Bidston and St James ward 2016 back
The nomination period for anyone wishing to stand as a candidate in the elections to become a councillor at Wirral Council has been closed for some time. As usual elections in each of the twenty-two wards on Wirral are all being contested (ranging from two candidates in Seacombe ward to seven in Liscard ward).
All wards except Liscard will be electing one councillor, Liscard will elect two councillors.
Who are the 83 candidates in the 2014 election for 8 Members of the European Parliament for North West England?
Who are the 83 candidates in the 2014 election for 8 Members of the European Parliament for North West England?
My polling card for the 2014 election for Members of the European Parliament (North West Region)
The voting system at the European elections is different to the local elections. In the European elections eleven political parties (An Independence from Europe, British National Party, Conservative Party, English Democrats, Green Party, Labour Party, Liberal Democrats, No2EU, Pirate Party UK, Socialist Equality Party and UK Independence Party (UKIP)) have each nominated a list of candidates. Each political party has put forward a list of eight candidates apart from the Pirate Party UK which has only put forward three.
People vote for a political party and once the polls close the total votes for each party are added up. The party with the highest number of votes is given the first Member of the European Parliament seat. You can read an explanation of how the voting system decides on who gets the other seven seats here. The voting system is a proportional representation system. This means the seats for Members of the European Parliament depend on what each party’s share of the vote is.
The list of candidates and their home addresses can be downloaded from this blog. The table below is of each political party and the candidates that party is putting forward in the European elections. If a political party wins a seat (or more than one seat) in the election then the first candidate for that political party is given the first seat, second the second etc. Some political parties also have descriptions on the ballot paper. Any descriptions used are included in the table below the name of the political party.
Political Party & Description
Party List of Candidates
An Independence from Europe
Helen Bashford
Gill Kearney
Pauline Penny
Kay Bashford
Faye Raw
Lorna Markovitch
Jennie Ransome
Jill Stockdale
British National Party
Re-elect Nick Griffin
Nick Griffin
Dawn Charlton
Clive Jefferson
Eddy O’Sullivan
Simon Darby
Kay Pollitt
Derek Adams
David O’Loughlin
Conservative Party
For real change in Europe
Jacqueline Foster
Sajjad Karim
Kevin Beaty
Deborah Dunleavy
Joseph Barker-Willis
Daniel Hamilton
Chris Whiteside
James Walsh
English Democrats
Putting England First!
Stephen Morris
Paul Rimmer
Derek Bullock
Paul Whitelegg
Steven McEllenborough
Laurence Depares
Valerie Morris
Anthony Backhouse
Green Party
Peter Andrew Cranie
Gina Dowding
Laura Bannister
Jillian Barbara Perry
John Anthony Knight
Ulrike Zeshan
Lewis Coyne
Jake Laurence Welsh
Labour Party
Theresa Griffin
Afzal Khan
Julie Ward
Wajid Khan
Angeliki Stogia
Steve Carter
Pascale Lamb
Nick Parnell
Liberal Democrats
Chris Davies
Helen Foster-Grime
Jo Crotty
Qassim Afzal
Jane Brophy
Sue McGuire
Gordon Lishman
Neil Christian
NO2EU
Yes to Workers’ Rights
Roger Bannister
George Waterhouse
Jacqueline Grunsell
John Metcalfe
George Tapp
Mark Rowe
James Healy
Kevin Morrison
Pirate Party UK
The Pirate Party UK
Maria Aretoulaki
George Walkden
Jack Allnutt
Socialist Equality Party
Join the fight for social equality!
Chris Marsden
Julie Hyland
Robert Skelton
Lucy Warren
Mark Dowson
Ajitha Gunaratne
Danny Dickinson
Joe Heffer
UK Independence Party (UKIP)
Paul Andrew Nuttall
Louise Bours
Steven Marcus Woolfe
Shneur Zalman Odze
Lee William Slaughter
Simon John Noble
Peter Johnston Harper
John Brian Stanyer
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