Elections
LAST year, this seat was up for grabs. The Labour candidate did not campaign. The Conservative candidate did. The Tories won. This year, former Harlow Council leader Mark Wilkinson is up for re-election. He did announce his retirement but then changed his mind. We have…
IT is good to see that the Harlow Alliance Party (HAP) have a third candidate this year. For a few years now, it is two men standing (Nicholas Taylor and Alan Leverett) but they do have supporters who help out with aim etc. However, through…
THE LEADER of Harlow Labour has been busy on the local election campaign trail. Councillor Chris Vince has been in every ward, knocking on doors, delivering leaflets and listing to residents concerns. We caught up with him in Barn Mead to find out how campaigning…
IN 2021, this seat went to the Conservatives as they swept to power. They won it again in 2022 but that was by four votes and for four days when the newly elected councillor stood down after his unsavoury tweets were exposed. Labour won the…
IN 2021, Labour had a really bad night here (as elsewhere) when the Tories gained the seat with a majority of 177. Sure enough, a year later, Labour re-gained it with a majority of 166. This year, Nancy Watson is defending the seat. Nancy is…
EVERY weekend, Bush Fair councillor Jodi Dunne is out and about across the whole of the town, knocking on doors and listening to residents’ concerns. In the council chamber he is much more comfortable being a member of a committee, playing close attention to matters…
Dear Editor, HAVING just seen the letter and election flyer which has been sent by the Conservative candidate in Sumners and Kingsmoor I felt compelled to write to YourHarlow for the first time. Cllr Souter states that a vote for any other Party is a…
WHEN we saw that the former Toddbrook Conservative councillor Gareth Williams was standing for the Green Party in Staple Tye, we were very keen to interview him. Mr Williams stood down as a councillor after just a short time in 2021 due to ill-health. But…
THE May 4TH elections in England will see contests in 229 councils. The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) will be standing candidates in hundreds of seats to “say that there is an alternative to Tory and Labour public service cuts and council tax rises”.…
IT is just eighteen months that the co-leader Jamie Gilbert put himself forward as a candidate in the Mark Hall by-election. On that occasion, he polled 86 votes. In May 2022, there were ten Green Party candidates in Harlow with some polling over 300 votes.…
YOU have to feel for Labour councillor Daniella Pritchard. She was victorious in a by-election in 2022. Now she is up defending the seat in 2023. If Daniella is victorious then she may be defending the seat when there are all out elections in 2024…
THIS should be a comfortable Conservative hold but it is still an interesting ward. In David Carter, the Tories have one of the hardest working ward councillors in the town. David just gets on with it. If there is an issue that people feel the…
THIS was the only seat that Labour held in their very bad night back in May 2021. Normal service was resumed in May 2022 when they won by 238 votes. We expect Labour to hold it again on May 4th. In many ways, the Labour…
WE thought we would start our preview of the local elections with a look at Church Langley. We start there as we think it should be relatively straight forward. That is to say: A Conservative hold. However, in many ways, parties will be looking at…
THERE are just two weeks left to apply for a free Voter Authority Certificate, for voters that do not have another accepted form of photo ID they can use in polling stations this May. The Electoral Commission is calling on anyone that needs the free…
THE LEADER of the Harlow Labour Group has launched the party’s local election campaign stressing “The Labour difference”. Councillor Chris Vince said: “For far too long the Conservative government have made councils like Harlow make the difficult choice between raising council tax or cutting services. …
