Category: Council and Elections

Including: if you get a visit from a prospective candidate, what issues should you be raising with them?

The South Cambridgeshire Conservatives have selected Heidi Allen to be its candidate in next year’s General Election, after Andrew Lansley’s retirement.

The election itself will be held on Thursday 13th November. Councillor Birtles’ resignation still does not have any official explanation.

On a personal level, I have found Councillor Birtles to have been approachable and effective as a councillor, and her resignation will be a loss to Queen Edith’s.

The South Cambridgeshire Conservative Association has chosen a shortlist of four to be the party’s candidate for the next election.

South Cambridgeshire constituency member of parliament Andrew Lansley has announced that he will be retiring as an MP at the next General Election. Mr Lansley has been MP for this area (which includes the Queen Edith’s ward of Cambridge city) since 1997. There had been widespread speculation that he could be nominated as the UK’s

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve had the chance to communicate with all of the candidates. Here’s what I’ve found out.

Simply by reading the page I’ve put together, voters of Queen Edith’s will have far more idea about what they’re voting for than residents in any of the other 13 wards of the city.

In 2012, Queen Edith’s provided the most surprising result in the whole of Cambridge when it elected its first-ever Labour councillor: could it provide a shock again in 2014?

Indications are that there’s going to be more competition than last year, as I’ve already had information from three candidates through my letterbox.

Last night I attended the first “South Area Committee” meeting of the year. I felt many of the 20-30 members of the public there came away unimpressed.

In which we learn that the voters of Queen Edith’s have elected Amanda Taylor to be their County Councillor for the next four years.

In the third and final part of my look at the forthcoming County Council election here in Queen Edith’s, it’s time to assess the candidates themselves.

In which, with two weeks to the 2013 Cambridgeshire County Council elections, we see how much we can find out about the four candidates asking for our vote.

In which we look at the background to the forthcoming Cambridgeshire County Council elections and wonder if it’s worth voting when the compounded rural vote is likely to continue to dictate the majority on the council.