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→ Find out about your Isle of Wight election candidates ←

Tomorrow sees 2021 election day finally arrive on the Isle of Wight (and across the country), as candidates standing to be councillors at Isle of Wight council go to the polls.

Last month all the candidates were announced and News OnTheWight created a table which readers could search through to find out who is standing in your ward.

Links to more info
As far as we can, we have now included links to Websites, articles or social media accounts where you can find more information about each of the candidates.

There are some gaps (some people don’t have anywhere you can get more info from) but if you see a link that’s missing, drop us an email and we’ll add it.

The candidates
You can search the table for wards or candidates, or sort by clicking on the arrows at the top of each column.

For more information about the 2021 Isle of Wight council election see our archive.

Our thanks to K for her help in pulling together some of the links

Image: Element5 Digital under CC BY 2.0

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YJC
6, May 2021 11:42 am

Just curious why 9 out 19 candidates on the Isle of Wight Green Party website do NOT have any contacts details for the candidate?

We had a wonderful glossy leaflet through our letterbox telling us why we should vote for the local Green Party candidate but not one way of being able to contact them.

eastcowes
Reply to  YJC
6, May 2021 8:30 pm

Possibly because that puts their home addresses on the internet. Not everyone wants their names and home addresses on the internet. Privacy is well compromised already, but I can understand why some people want to protect that info.

ian123
Reply to  eastcowes
6, May 2021 10:35 pm

I think that if you want to be a public representative, and expect to be an active and contactable councillor, then it is a nonsense – unless you have very good personal reasons such as a credible threat of harassment – not to be prepared to publish your home address. If you are elected you will almost certainly have to declare it, anyhow, as part of your… Read more »

eastcowes
Reply to  ian123
6, May 2021 11:35 pm

And a lot of people fall into that category of being potentially harassed nowadays. Remember poor Jo Cox, the MP who was murdered? What they should verify though is that you live in the ward or how far out of the ward you live. But people do not need your personal address, and it doesn’t need to be posted online.

eastcowes
Reply to  ian123
6, May 2021 11:38 pm

There is a difference between putting your information on a declaration of interests form versus having it searchable on the web. Also, you might be willing to give up your privacy if elected but not necessarily if you are just a candidate. Being a candidate doesn’t mean you must lay bare your family’s home address.

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