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Local Elections 09: Nominated Candidate List Examined
Friday, 8th May, 2009 at 4:41 pm, Isle of Wight
Election, Island-wide, Isle of Wight Council, Politics
As mentioned, the list of nominated candidates was released by the IW Council for both the Parish and County elections today.
We’ve had a speedy look through the document and can bring you a summary of the 40 seats in the 39 wards.
Both the Brading, St Helens and Bembridge & Newport Central wards are heavily contested with 6 candidates nominated in each. That high number is more understandable in Brading, St Helens and Bembridge as that ward has two seats.
Nine wards have four candidates – Godshill and Wroxall; Lake South; Parkhurst; Ryde South; Sandown South; Shanklin Central; Shanklin South; Ventnor West; Whippingham and Osborne.
Break down of the affiliations
In order of most candidates to least
39 Conservative; 35 Lib Dem; 22 Independent; 16 Labour; Six unaffiliated; 1 BNP
Yes, Lake South has a BNP candidate, but they haven’t nominated for any other seat.
How many running and where
Arreton and Newchurch – 2 candidates
Binstead and Fishbourne – 3
Brading, St Helens and Bembridge – 6 candidates
Carisbrooke – 2 candidates
Central Wight – 2 candidates
Chale, Niton and Whitwell – 2 candidates
Cowes Medina – 3 candidates
Cowes North – 3 candidates
Cowes South and Northwood – 3 candidates
Cowes West and Gurnard – 2 candidates
East Cowes – 3 candidates
Freshwater North – 3 candidates
Freshwater South – 3 candidates
Godshill and Wroxall – 4 candidates
Havenstreet, Ashey and Haylands – 3 candidates
Lake North – 3 candidates
Lake South – 4 candidates
Nettlestone and Seaview – 2 candidates
Newport Central – 6 candidates
Newport East – 3 candidates
Newport North – 2 candidates
Newport South – 3 candidates
Newport West – 3 candidates
Parkhurst – 4 candidates
Ryde East – 2 candidates
Ryde North – 3 candidates
Ryde North West – 2 candidates
Ryde South – 4 candidates
Ryde West – 3 candidates
Sandown North – 2 candidates
Sandown South – 4 candidates
Shanklin Central – 4 candidates
Shanklin South – 4 candidates
Totland – 3 candidates
Ventnor East – 3 candidates
Ventnor West – 4 candidates
West Wight – 2 candidates
Whippingham and Osborne – 4 candidates
Wootton Bridge – 2 candidates
Have a look through. It would be interesting to hear your observations
Statement of Persons nominated
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I will definitely be voting conservative. Please don’t vote for the silly Liberal Democrats!
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Red, blue, yellow, green parties: don’t vote for any of them because they will represent their party and not you.
Just see what the Island Conservatives are planning to do with our schools: close the good ones and hand the rest over to any takers.
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You know you have to be 18, don’t you Dan? ;-)
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Why do you say that steve?
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I may be just a bit ill informed in this (everywhere I have lived for years has been in unitary authorities) but I can’t help noticing that two candidates are standing in both the Ventnor East and Ventnor West wards of the Ventnor Town Council. Is that normal then? It strikes me as a bit odd. What happens if they win both?
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They’ll withdraw one of their nominations within the next few days. Perhaps they were checking out where they thought they had the easier ride.
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Expect that they applied for both wards but will pull out of one or other once they’ve seen the list of who else is standing – call it covering their bases and checking out the competition.
Good to see Buster Bartlett standing for County. He’d get my vote.
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Why do you say that?
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Good luck to all the independent candidates. Would hate to see Lib Dems or Conservatives have a majority!!! Would vote for Andrew Turner in a general election anytime though!!
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I will wait and see IF he reveals his expenses list, and what he spent our money on.
Pipeman
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I think you’ll find that Andrew Turner is very popular amongst the Independent Council candidates, too, Mojo, certainly in Ventnor. It seems that he has more trouble with his own party, locally, than he does with anybody else. This speaks volumes about the present administration and its aspirations.
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Dont know much about them but who is the ukip?
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The UKIP is the United Kingdom indpendance party and they’re the party who wants Britain out of Europe.
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Thanks den , do we have some one here on the island to represent that party please?
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I think that a UKIP candidate for the Ventnor Town Council would be a good idea, but it’s too late now.
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There are no UKIP in the council elections lin, but I don’t know the candidates for the European election.
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Thanks den , i watched trailer for ukip and it made sense to me .
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Hurrah…thanks to boundary re-organisation I get to not vote for David Pugh.
Now which of the other 3 will come a knocking on my door!!!!!
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No 5.
Perhaps it would be worth getting in touch with Ms Clynch’s opponents for the seat. They might be in a position to assist you.
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Sorry, that should have appeared under comment 16. Doh!
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haha
I’d rather have volunteers than people with a vested interest(other than humiliating the racist homophobesof course)…already have several volunteers, but the more we get the easier it will be
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David Knowles is sending round leaflets saying he is sorry he missed me when he visited today but he didn’t visit and it came with two other flyers all rolled up together. when I asked him if he posted this yellow slip on its own he said “yes” then when I said it came with others he said he “knew they were posting in the area.” He then said names of “st johns wood road” then when I said no he had another guess at holly tree close which was also wrong as I dont live there. He blaintly lied to me as I was in and he did not come to my house to deliver the flyers, they were all together in one bundle folded in. I am dismayed that he did not apologise for his error/ deceit and will not vote for a man who lies to me.
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I have received my ballot papers in the post and have read through everything I need to do, this seems very straight forward except for 1 little draw back. I have only received 1 flyer giving information for 1 of the candidates in the Sandown area. How am I supposed to vote at all (in all 3 of the votes requested of me) when I have no idea who these people are and what they stand for? Have I missed something? Please help, I dont want to waste my vote but I don’t want to let the island down by voting for the wrong candidate either……oh the pressure of it all :-)
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Regarding the BNP candidate, Lake South- I don’t think that is Geoffery Clynch’s wife – she is 80 & says her husband fought in WW2 (which side?). She polled 89 votes or about 8%. It seems that Clynch still lives with his mother, but given that she looks at least all her 80 years, even if she had been elected (as if!) she would probably be dead before the next election, why could not Clynch himself stand? No bottle, or what? The BNP seem to have a few members infesting Lake. What’s the matter why so shy? Can’t all be on the sex offenders register can they? Can they?
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80 years old! She’s a spring chicken compared to our dear 94 year old Buster Bartlett.
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sometimes I just laugh and laugh and laugh
I never rains but it pours for the BNP…seems their London Assembly ‘member’ is about to be disciplined and barred from office for comments about the Bishop of York and Ethiopians chucking spears.
and the revelation that the holocaust museum shooter was a BNP associate
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I am pleased to see that “double-dipper” Val Taylor has been trounced at the poll. Perhaps, now, she can concentrate her efforts as a full-time clerk for the good folk of Sandown…..a job, according to 2007/08 accounts (can’t seem to find 08/09 accounts) costs the local tax-payer a grand total of over £40K. Not bad for a pensioner! Regards. Busker.
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I assumed that the role of Sandown Town Clerk was either part-time or voluntary. Whenever I have popped down to the Broadway Centre to ask for a Sandown in Bloom entry form or to book a room for a party, the place is always closed. Given the current financial climate, can we really afford to pay someone who is already in receipt of a pension (or two), a salary which should be better placed in employing a younger, perhaps unemployed, local person. Thoughts on a postcard, please?
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I would expect the Sandown Town Clerk post to be part-time but certainly paid, not voluntary. You have to take a course and get qualified to do it. The job is to ’service’ the Town Council, not the townfolk, so there’s no reason to expect a Town Clerk to be available to give out leaflets.
And what’s wrong with a pensioner having a part-time job ? Ageist or what ?
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Perhaps you missed Val Taylor’s response to the question of salary etc over on another posting.
See her reply on: Local Elections 09: Asking Why Some Ventnor Nominees Went For Two Wards
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Seems that our newly appointed BNP representative has got his wife to stand. leaflets from Hope Not Hate on their way :-)
Anybody want to help delivering them?
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