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)
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