Candidates announced for North Yorkshire Council election

The candidates hoping to be selected to represent the Hambleton area in the new North Yorkshire Council have been announced.

Residents will be able to vote on May 5 for the councillor on the new authority.

There will be 90 councillors in total who will be elected to 89 new divisions.

There will be 14 divisions and 14 councillors in the current Hambleton area.

The divisions and candidates are:

Aiskew and Leeming

  • Malcolm Chaloner – Green Party
  • John Weighell – Consevative

Bedale

  • Lenny Cornwall – Labour
  • Elaine Kilroy – Green Party
  • David Webster – Conservative

Easingwold

  • Barry Doyle – Liberal Democrats
  • Nigel Knapton – Conservative
  • Emma Scott-Spivey – Labour

Great Ayton

  • Heather Moorhouse – Conservative
  • Mike Newton – Labour
  • Richard Short – Liberal Democrats

Hillside and Raskelf

  • Alyson Baker – Conservative
  • Adam Harper – Green Party
  • Andrew Robinson – Independent
  • Ian Whitehead – Labour

Huby and Tollerton

  • Neil Beckwith – Liberal Democrats
  • Malcolm Taylor – Conservative
  • Helen Tomlinson – Labour

Hutton Rudby and Osmotherley

  • Bridget Fortune – Conservative
  • David Hugill
  • Anne Mannix – Labour
  • Duncan Ross Russell – Liberal Democrats

Morton-on-Swale and Appleton Wiske

  • Joseph Body – Labour
  • Annabel Wilkinson – Conservative
  • John Yorke – Green Party

Northallerton North and Brompton

  • Paul Atkin – Independent
  • James Grainge – Labour
  • Steve Watson – Conservative

Northallerton South

  • Paul Chapman – Liberal Democrats
  • Caroline Dickinson – Conservative
  • Gerald Ramsden – Labour

Romanby

  • Mark Harrison – Liberal Democrats
  • Joe Sawdon – Labour
  • Peter Wilkinson – Conservative

Sowerby and Topcliffe

  • Mark Robson – Conservative
  • David Whitfield – Green Party

Stokesley

  • Jack Cooper – Conservative
  • Bryn Griffiths – Liberal Democrats
  • Geoffrey Marron – Labour Party

Thirsk

  • Gareth Dadd – Conservative
  • Bill Hoult – Liberal Democrats
  • David Seex – Labour

The elections will put in place councillors who will serve for a five-year term.

For the first year these councillors will represent the current county council.

They will form a new executive and they will also oversee the implementation of the new council which will launch on April 1, 2023.

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