RUGBEIANS will go to the polls on Thursday (May 2) to elect councillors to Rugby Borough Council.
Candidates will contest 14 of the council’s 42 seats – a third of the total.
The Conservative group currently controls the council with 23 councillors. The Labour group and the Liberal Democrat group each have nine councillors. There is one independent councillor.
Candidates are as follows.
Admirals and Cawston Ward
Lee Martin Chase (Liberal Democrats)
Sharron Joanne Goldingay (Labour)
Michael Thomas Stokes (Conservative)
Benn Ward
Rachel Elizabeth Lowe (Conservative)
Tom Mahoney (Labour)
Enid Niven (UKIP)
Rebecca Sarah Stevenson (Green Party)
Hugh Trimble (Liberal Democrats)
Bilton Ward
Lesley Mary George (Liberal Democrats)
Phil Hemsley (Labour)
Lisa Anne Parker (Conservative)
Coton and Boughton Ward
Peter Thomas Bramble (UKIP)
Mark William Gore (Labour)
Seb Lowe (Conservative)
James Robert Moran (Liberal Democrats)
Maralyn Janet Pickup (Green Party)
Dunsmore Ward
Louise Bennett (Liberal Democrats)
Peter William Eccleson (Conservative)
Peter Mclaverty (Labour)
Eastlands Ward
Roy Victor Harvey (UKIP)
Ben Law (Labour)
Neil James Sandison (Liberal Democrats)
Patrick K Steel (Green Party)
Carolyn Watson-Merret (Conservative)
Hillmorton Ward
Julie Eleanor Douglas (Liberal Democrats)
Sarah Yvonne Elizabeth Feeney (Labour)
Kathryn Margaret Lawrence (Conservative)
Peter Reynolds (Green Party)
Leam Valley Ward
Emma Joanne Crane (Conservative)
Bob Hughes (Labour)
New Bilton Ward
David Barker (UKIP)
Robert Owen Beggs (Green Party)
Barbara Anne Brown (Labour)
Eve Hassell (Conservative)
Keith Ward (Liberal Democrats)
Newbold and Brownsover Ward
Jim Ellis (Labour)
Mark Andrew Summers (Green Party)
Hossain Tafazzal (Liberal Democrats)
Richard Martyn Tomlin (Conservative)
Paddox Ward
Adam Michael Daly (Conservative)
Jerry Roodhouse (Liberal Democrats)
Roy Leonard Sandison (Green Party)
Jonathan Richard Vickers (Labour)
Revel and Binley Woods Ward
Richard Oliver Harrington (Labour)
Heather Mary Timms (Conservative)
Rokeby and Overslade Ward
Beck Hemsley (Labour)
Christopher Johnson (Conservative)
Nick Long (Liberal Democrats)
Wolston and The Lawfords Ward
Graham William Bliss (Labour)
Derek Poole (Conservative)
Lesley Karen Summers (Green Party)
Of 16 Parish Council elections this year, only Wolfhampcote Parish Council‘s will be contested. The following seven candidates will contest five seats.
Andrew David Brown
Jim Conning
Roberta Karen Jervis
Laura Helen King
April Knapp
John Malcolm Lee
Diana Weaver
Candidates in the 15 other parishes will stand uncontested.