Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Nominations close
Election nominations close
Nominations closed today for the local government election in May, and I have to compliment the Conservative Party in it's efforts to field 17 candidates in the 18 seats up for grabs, it must not be easy finding so many willing people in such a Labour hot bed!
Amongst the 16 independent candidates is my former Progressive colleague Greenwell Jewitt who has decided not to allign himself with any party at all.
South Tyneside Council is controlled by Labour with 36 seats. The Progressives have six, Independents five, Lib Dems four and Tories three.
At this election there are 18 Labour candidates, 17 Tories, 12 Lib Dems, 16 Independents, three Progressives, two Greens, two BNP, one UKIP and three others.
A clanger has left the Conservatives without candidates in a quarter of the seats up for grabs at crucial town hall elections in Newcastle.
The party, which is trying to gain a toehold back on the Liberal Democrat-controlled city council, failed to return nomination papers for seven out of the 26 wards being contested at the May 4 election.
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