6th of May - IT'S ELECTION DAY !!!!! Good Luck to All Our Candidates

All 64 seats on Derbyshire County Council are up for election on May 6th. At the moment Conservatives have 36 seats, Labour have 24 seats and Lib Dems have 3. There are 254 candidates competing across the 61 divisions of Derbyshire county.

In Chesterfield we currently have 1 County Council seat, that held by Barry in Stavely North and Whittington. So we have a lot to do - but what an opportunity. At the last county elections two of our candidates missed out by less than 250 votes. And 16 of the existing county councillors are not standing for re-election so the possibility of reshaping the current political balance is even greater. In Chesterfield our candidates are as follows

Amanda Brassington - Birdholme Division

Barry Bingham - Staveley North and Whittington Division

Keith Falconer - Boythorpe and Brampton South Division

Ed Fordham - Loundsley Green and Newbold Division

Adrian Mather - Spire Division

Paul Niblock - West and Walton Division

Shirley Niblock - Brimington Division

Tony Rogers - St Mary's Division

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