Telford and Wrekin Parliamentary candidates announced
The names of the candidates standing in the Parliamentary elections in Telford and Wrekin on Thursday 7 May are published today.
In the Telford constituency there are five candidates standing for election: Lucy Allan (Conservatives), Denis Allen (UKIP), Ian Phillip Croll (Liberal Democrats), Peter Robert Hawkins (Green Party) and David Wright (Labour).
In the Wrekin constituency there are also five candidates: Cath Edwards (Green Party), Katrina Gilman (Labour), Rod Keyes (Liberal Democrats), Mark Andrew Pritchard (Conservatives) and Jill Seymour (UKIP).
More information can be found at www.telford.gov.uk/elections
Borough, town and parish council elections will be held on the same day as the UK General Parliamentary Election.
The names of all candidates standing for election in borough, town and parish council elections on 7 May will be published online tomorrow (Fri 10 APR) at 4pm at www.telford.gov.uk/elections
The deadline for local residents to register to vote is 20 April.
There have been changes to the way that people sign up to the electoral register recently and it might mean that some people who had previously signed up are no longer on the register.
Previously, one person in every household was responsible for registering everyone else who lives at that address. Under Individual Electoral Registration (IER), each person is now required to register to vote for themselves, rather than by household.
Under IER each individual needs to provide 'identifying information', such as their date of birth and national insurance number, when applying to register and their application will need to be verified before being added to the register.
Anyone who has not registered can do it here: www.gov.uk/register-to-vote. Paper application forms are available on request for anyone without internet access.
For anyone who will be away on 7 May, the deadline for applications for postal votes is 5pm on 21 April.
