Town and Parish council elections

At the same time as the District, Borough or City council elections in many parts of England and Wales (including Mayoral elections in Copeland and some of the other places with an elected Mayor) another set of elections taking place is for Town and Parish councillors.

In some places these are contested but in others they have not been. I am one of comparatively few voters in Copeland who will actually have a Town or Parish council ballot paper to fill in because the Corkickle area of Whitehaven Town Council is among the minority of Town and Parish councils in Copeland which have been contested.

Hence a large number of Town and Parish councillors in Copeland have been elected unopposed - indeed, quite a few parishes and towns have had fewer candidates than seats and will be looking for volunteers to co-opt.

Full details of the "Statement of Persons Nominated" documents which record all the people nominated for Town and Parish councils in Copeland can be found on the elections page of the Copeland Borough Council website here, and there is a slightly more user-friendly if less detailed list of the names of all the candidates nominated on the Whitehaven News site here.

I'll correct one typo from that site - the reference to "High Brian O'Kane" who is standing for Whitehaven Town Council in "Central North"  is supposed to be former Mayor of Whitehaven Hugh Brian O'Kane who is normally known as Brian.

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