Four candidates are standing for the Bishop’s Stortford East division on Hertfordshire County Council in the local election on Thursday (May 6).
As in Bishop’s Stortford Rural, the Conservative incumbent is seeking re-election. In 2017, John Wyllie won with 1,517 votes (42.1%), just 80 ahead of Liberal Democrat Mione Goldspink, who polled 1,437 (39.9%). Labour’s Val Cooke was third with 458 (12.7%) and Madela Baddock of the Green Party received 179 votes (5%).
The same four parties will be vying for votes this time, but only Tory Mr Wyllie is standing again from four years ago. The Greens’ Madela Baddock is seeking election in Bishop’s Stortford West while Labour and the Lib Dems are both fielding new candidates.
Bishop’s Stortford East is one of all 78 seats on Herts County Council up for grabs on Thursday. The Conservatives have 50 seats, the Liberal Democrats 18 and Labour 10. In 2017 the Tories got 46% of the vote, the Lib Dems 25%, Labour 21%, the Green Party and UKIP 4% each and others less than 1%.
GRAEME HILL Green Party
Green Party candidate Graeme…
