ELECTIONS: County council seat up for grabs

A BY-ELECTION will be held in the Taunton North electoral division next week of Somerset County Council following the recent resignation of County Hall member Claire Gordon.

The polling stations will be open on Thursday, May 7, 2015 – the same day as the General, district and town/parish council elections.

The candidates standing in the by-election are as follows: Michael John Adkins – Conservative; Robert Bainbridge – UK Independence Party (UKIP); Alan William Debenham – Green Party; Barrie Hall – Liberal Democrats; Libby Lisgo – Labour.

Cllr Gordon was a county council member for 22 years, representing Taunton North for 18 years, and resigned on grounds of ill health.

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