Harlow Green Party unveil candidates for May elections

News / Wed 1st Apr 2026 at 05:39am

THE Harlow Green Party has announced its candidates to stand in the 7th May local elections. A total of 11 Greens are to stand across all wards in the Harlow District Council elections.

Their candidates are hoping to help make history with the Green Party as they look to secure a record number of Councillors across the country.

The Green Party has rapidly expanded it’s local presence in recent years, now holding hundreds of councillor seats across well over a hundred councils. It leads or is part of the administration in dozens of local authorities, including high-profile councils such as Bristol and Mid Suffolk, reflecting its growing influence in local government.

Local party spokesperson Jennifer Steadman said: “I’m delighted to unveil our team of fantastic Green Party candidates ready to represent communities across Harlow in the council elections on Thursday 7th May.

“We know people are looking for a real change from the tired old parties, and when you vote Green on 7th May you will get hard working councillors committed to running local services efficiently and in the best interests of local people in Harlow.”

Full list of local candidates.

Bush Fair Ward – David Steven Margetts

Church Langley South & Potter Street – Paul Ian King

Church Langley North & Newhall – Benji White

Great Parndon – Neil John Crouch

Latton Bush & Stewards – Howard Beaumont

Little Parndon & Town Centre – Madison May Baker

Mark Hall – Julie Taylor

Netteswell – Charlie Hancock

Old Harlow – Jennifer Steadman

Passmores – Stephanie Angela Marsh

Sumners & Kingsmoor – Julie Bull

Full list of Essex County Council candidates.

Harlow South West – Julie Bull

Harlow Common & Church Langley – Paul Ian King

Harlow Parndon & Toddbrook – David Steven Margetts

Old Harlow – Jennifer Steadman

Harlow Netteswell – Julie Taylor

9 Comments for Harlow Green Party unveil candidates for May elections:

Adam

2026-04-01 09:32:09

A vote for the greens is a vote for communism and your children and grandchildren to be even less free, have you not learned enough from the absolute mess labour have made. they are all the same large government, controls and interference with your life, high taxes, rewarding the idle. the only way out of this mess is via people who have build things and companies not sat on protests or working in the government / political sphere. lets not forget his name is not even Zach and the last leader of the green party flew long haul often while saying we should not.

David Forman

2026-04-01 11:23:09

Dear Adam, I recently read a report that was presented to the German parliament soon after reunification. It said that the DDR (East Germany) communist economy had 96% of GDP run by State controlled enterprises. If you look carefully at the Green manifesto policies, you will soon understand that only a right-wing propagandist could consider the Greens are communist. See page 2 of https://www.zew.de/fileadmin/FTP/dp/dp20043.pdf

Mike Harlow

2026-04-01 11:33:36

Day after day Adam comments to the negative. I bet he's such fun at parties, although if they bring stuff and share it there I suppose that's "communism" like everything else he doesn't like

Benny Ben

2026-04-01 16:39:28

Adam doesn't get invites to parties

I Eddie

2026-04-01 18:15:54

Greens getting councillors in Harlow. Great April fool.

David Vincent

2026-04-01 21:22:42

For such a staunch capitalist Adam forgets that capital letters follow a full stop. It must be his commie rage interfering with his prose.

John Davis

2026-04-02 10:59:29

I have attempted to offer an insight into the real Green agenda using quotes and information freely available in the press. My posted comment has not appeared. It's an odd business when a paper promotes a political party whose own quotes, things they've actually said, can appear in the general press but are considered so abhorrent that they won't get through that paper's own comment censorship. Suppression of free speech or editorial bias. Which is it?

Paul King

2026-04-03 22:51:21

John Davis, perhaps you could post these comments and associated sources in the, er, comments here? Or perhaps summarise your findings with links to the sources? It's often interesting when these don't include links to the actual policies themselves. And anyway, us Greens are campaigning on LOCAL issues for LOCAL people. Promoted by Julie Taylor on behalf of The Green Party, PO Box 78066, London SW16 9G

Novoman

2026-04-04 09:03:59

A tax of 1% on billionaires combined with making companies who avoid paying tax pay and by electing Green candidates would more than pay for the kinds of life changing improvements for most of us who have kids or use the nhs and work hard but still find it difficult to make ends meet. These local elections should be about very local issues, however the cost of living is a local issue on a National scale and by voting green a chance to register a shot across the bows to a Labour Government that's looking like the austerity and failed Tory government we voted out.