VOTERS will go to the polls next week.

As well as the election for the new Dorset Council, May 2 will also see town council elections in Bridport and Lyme Regis.

Bridport is divided into two wards, North and South, and each ward is represented by nine councillors.

The candidates are:

BRIDPORT NORTH

Rose Allwork (Labour)

Sarah Carney (Labour)

Ronald Coatsworth (Conservative)

Keith Allan Day (Independent)

Janet Diane Fletcher (Labour )

John Ernest Harrison (Conservative)

Julian Stephen Jones (Green)

Ros Kayes (Green)

Gill Massey (Liberal Democrat)

Bill Mellish (Labour)

Richard Howard Nicholls (Labour)

Maggie Ray (Liberal Democrat)

Martin Ray (Liberal Democrat)

Anne Rickard (Liberal Democrat)

Antony Gilbert Butler Stanley

(Conservative)

Gillian Esme Summers (Conservative)

Steve Williams (Liberal Democrat)

BRIDPORT SOUTH

Geoffrey James Ackerman

(Liberal Democrat)

Ian Richard Bark (Liberal Democrat)

Dave Bolwell (Liberal Democrat)

Nick Boothroyd (Labour)

Sandra Ann Brown (Conservative)

Derek Raymond Bussell (Conservative)

Lucy Campbell (Labour)

Kelvin Charles Clayton (Green)

Mark Gage (Labour)

Jennifer Mary Gladwin-White

(Conservative)

David Hart (Labour)

Karen Hunt (Green)

Barry Irvine (Liberal Democrat)

Karen Mackay (Labour)

Frances Kathleen Mckenzie (Conservative)

Dave Rickard (Liberal Democrat)

Barbara Lynn Vousden (Conservative)

Sarah Williams (Liberal Democrat)

Sixteen candidates have been put forward for 14 available seats on Lyme Regis Town Council. The candidates are:

LYME REGIS

Belinda Bawden

John Henry Broom (Independent)

David Ian Sarson (Independent)

Richard Harold Doney

Kelsey Jobina Ellis

Michaela Louise Ellis

Leon Petroc Howe (Labour)

Brian Alan Larcombe

Sean Nicholas James Larcombe

Steve Miller

Cheryl Lesley Reynolds

David Alan Ruffle

Jeff Scowen

Gillian Louise Stammers

Graham Charles Andrew Turner

Stanley Bruce Williams (Independent)