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2017 Isle of Wight council elections: Here’s a list of who’s standing in your ward (Updated)

The list of candidates for the 2017 Isle of Wight council elections have been released by the council today (Tuesday), in an admirably short amount of time.

There are candidates standing in 39 wards (with two seats available in Brading, St Helens and Bembridge).

The mix of candidates (156) includes nominations from the Conservative (40), Labour Party (27), Labour & Co-operative Party (1), The Labour Party Candidate (2), Green (25), LibDem (18) and UKIP (10) parties, as well as many independents (24) and nine undeclared.

Surprisingly, Leader of the Isle of Wight Green Party, Vix Lowthion, who had 9,404 votes in the general election will not be standing, because as a teacher based in a non-academy school, she is disqualified from standing for election at County level.

Ward with most candidates
Shanklin South, the ward that saw former Leader David Pugh beaten by ‘independent’ Cllr Richard Priest in the last election, has no less than seven candidates – the largest number across the Island (ignoring the two seat ward of Brading, St Helens and Bembridge).

The list
Sadly the council didn’t issue the list as anything but PDF, so we’ve just spent the last 2.5 hours converting it over for you, dear reader (Oh the glamour!).

As data it gives you the flexibility to look at the data in the order you choose, for example in candidate surname, or party order.

Image: Secret London 2013 under CC BY 2.0

Update 19:48 Added text version of all candidates, so removed the PDF.

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