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# Labour announce line-up of candidates for May elections
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/labour-announce-line-up-of-candidates-for-may-elections/
- Published: 2015-03-13T14:26:54.000Z
- Updated: 2015-03-14T18:31:58.000Z
- Description: A week after publishing its manifesto, ‘A Council That Works For You’, Labour has chosen its team of candidates to contest the local elections in Brighton and Hove on May 7. HALF of the candidates selected are women; a quarter are experienced councillors, and three-quarters are new to politics. 10%
- Author: Besi
- Tags: News, Politics

## A week after publishing its manifesto, *A Council That Works For You,* Labour has chosen its team of candidates to contest the local elections in Brighton and Hove on May 7.

![Cllr Warren Morgan](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/web-600-223.jpg)

Cllr Warren Morgan

**HALF of the candidates selected are women;** a quarter are experienced councillors, and three-quarters are new to politics.

10% of the candidates are drawn from the city’s LGBT communities and there is also representation from the BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) community. Several candidates are in their twenties.

**Councillor Warren Morgan, Leader of the Labour and Co-operative Group, said:** *“I’m proud to be leading such a strong team into the local elections, a team of local residents who will bring knowledge of their neighbourhoods and a wide range of skills and experience to the city council. We have people in our team with proven records in delivering major projects, employment and skills, the NHS, education, voluntary sector organisations and more who will run our city competently if elected on May 7th.”*

**He added:** *“With the General Election on the same day, a vote for your local Labour council candidates will count in each and every one of the city’s 21 wards. Labour is best placed in the vast majority of them to defeat Green and Conservative councillors. We have won the last four elections held in the city, and only Labour can get rid of the Greens.”*

At the last local elections in May 2011, Labour was in first or second place in 18 of the 21 wards, had near-equal support to the Green Party, winning 32% of the vote, just less than the Greens and 3% more than the Conservatives.

Labour has taken the largest percentage of the vote in Brighton and Hove at the four most recent elections.

• May 2012: Police and Crime Commissioner, Labour took 61% of the vote in the city.

• October 2012: East Brighton by-election, Labour took 56% of the vote in the city.

• July 2013: Hanover and Elm Grove by-election, Labour took 40% of the vote in the city, overturning a 1,000-vote Green majority.

• May 2014: European Elections, Labour took 20,000 votes in the city to 18,000 for the Green Party, 15,000 for Tories and 14,000 for UKIP.

**The full line-up of candidates is:**

**Brunswick & Adelaide:** Melanie Davis  
**Brunswick & Adelaide:** Richard Stewart  
**Central Hove:** Clare Moonan  
**Central Hove:** David Trangmar  
**East Brighton:** Gill Mitchell  
**East Brighton:** Warren Morgan  
**East Brighton:** Maggie Barradell  
**Goldsmid:** Saoirse Horan  
**Goldsmid:** Malcolm Prescott  
**Goldsmid:** Jackie Quinn  
**Hangleton & Knoll:** Nigel Jenner  
**Hangleton & Knoll:** Chris Henry  
**Hangleton & Knoll:** Martin Perry  
**Hanover & Elm Grove:** Emma Daniel  
**Hanover & Elm Grove:** Ivor Fried  
**Hanover & Elm Grove:** Chris Taylor  
**Hollingdean & Stanmer:** Caroline Penn  
**Hollingdean & Stanmer:** Tracey Hill  
**Hollingdean & Stanmer:** Michael Inkpin-Leissner  
**Hove Park:** John Cooper  
**Hove Park:** Dominic Ford  
**Moulsecoomb & Bevendean:** Mo Marsh  
**Moulsecoomb & Bevendean:** Anne Meadows  
**Moulsecoomb & Bevendean:** Dan Yates  
**North Portslade:** Penny Gilbey  
**North Portslade:** Peter Atkinson  
**Preston Park:** Kevin Allen  
**Preston Park:** Julie Cattell  
**Preston Park:** Neil Schofield  
**Queen’s Park:** Karen Barford  
**Queen’s Park:** Daniel Chapman  
**Queen’s Park:** Adrian Morris  
**Regency:** Catherine Wilson  
**Regency:** Jonathan Skinner  
**Rottingdean Coastal:** Pete Gillman  
**Rottingdean Coastal:** Mark Laverick  
**Rottingdean Coastal:** Talullah Gunputh  
**South Portslade:** Les Hamilton  
**South Portslade:** Alan Robins  
**St Peter’s & North Laine:** Alex Boyle  
**St Peter’s & North Laine:** Maureen Winder  
**St Peter’s & North Laine:** Caraline Brown  
**Westbourne:** Tom Bewick  
**Westbourne:** Sunny Choudhury  
**Wish:** Edward Crask  
**Wish:** Anne Pissaridou  
**Withdean:** Juliet McCafferty  
**Withdean:** Michael Middleton  
**Withdean:** Leo Barraclough  
**Woodingdean:** Judith Milton  
**Woodingdean:** Elizabeth McGinley