Candidates standing in Mid Devon elections

42 seats are being contested

More than 100 people are standing for election to Mid Devon District Council next month.

A full list of candidates has been revealed for the poll on Thursday 4 May, in which all 42 council seats will be contested.

The last full elections were in 2019. It resulted in no party having overall control, after the Conservatives lost 10 seats – largely to the benefit of the Liberal Democrats.

The council had until recently been run by an Independent/Conservative coalition, but it collapsed in February after the Tory group disagreed with Independent leader Bob Deed over the future of the authority’s controversial housing development company, 3 Rivers.

The Conservative members then left the cabinet, and Cllr Deed subsequently resigned. Fellow independent Barry Warren was later appointed until the election.

Ahead of the vote, the council’s current makeup consists of Conservatives (17), Independents (12), Liberal Democrats (11) and Greens (2). Labour currently has no councillors on Mid Devon.

LIST OF CANDIDATES (* indicates sitting councillor)

Bradninch

Pier Martin Kotting (Labour)
James Ruttledge (Conservatives)
Luke Daniel Taylor (Liberal Democrats) *
Cadbury

Bob Deed (Independent) *
Linda Luckhaus (Labour)
Jennifer Jane Riddle (Reform UK)
Rhys Roberts (Conservatives)
Georgia Stone (Liberal Democrats)
Canonsleigh

Christine Ann Collis (Conservatives) *
Jane Lock (Liberal Democrats)
Paul Andrew Osman (Conservatives)
Gill Westcott (Green)
Clare & Shuttern

Chris Adcock (Liberal Democrats)
Isla Farrington (Conservatives)
Rachel Gilmour (Liberal Democrats)
Isobel Grant (Conservatives)
Crediton Boniface

Jim Cairney (Liberal Democrats) *
John Downes (Liberal Democrats) *
Gina Ford (Conservatives)
John Humphreys (Labour)
Steve Huxtable (Independent)
Crediton Lawrence

Guy Cochran (Liberal Democrats)
Laurie Laybourn (Labour)
Frank Letch (Liberal Democrats) *
Sam Scougall-Knight (Conservatives)
Cullompton Padbrook

John Berry (Conservatives) *
Anthony Henry Humble-Smith (Green)
Lloyd Knight (Liberal Democrats)
Susan Ann Nancy Lane-Smith (Conservatives)
Sue Robinson (Liberal Democrats)
Cullompton St Andrews

Jane Attwood (Conservatives)
Emma Buczkowski (Liberal Democrats)
James Buczkowski (Liberal Democrats) *
Melvyn Kim Hanks (Conservatives)
Edward William Jack Southerden (Labour)
Martin Richard Whatley (Conservatives)
Nikki Woollatt (Independent) *
Cullompton Vale

Rosemary Berry (Conservatives)
Matt Fletcher (Liberal Democrats)
Halberton

Gwen DuChesne (Liberal Democrats)
Ray Radford (Conservatives) *
Lower Culm

John Edward Bell (Labour)
Richard Chesterton (Conservatives) *
Cathy Connor (Liberal Democrats)
Bob Evans (Independent) *
Andrea Glover (Liberal Democrats)
Brian Kenneth Lane-Smith (Conservatives)
John Poynton (Liberal Democrats)
Barry Warren (Independent) *
Lewis Alexander Worrow (Conservatives)
Sandford & Creedy

Mark Jenkins (Green)
Alex Monro (Conservatives)
Margaret Squires (Conservatives) *
Helen Marie Tuffin (Green)
Silverton

Jerry Brook (Conservatives)
Josh Wright (Liberal Democrats) *
Taw Vale

Clive Eginton (Conservatives) *
Steve Keable (Liberal Democrats)
Tiverton Castle

Chris Berry (Independent)
Stanley Joseph Ely (Labour)
Luis Gordon (Conservatives)
Ben Holdman (Liberal Democrats) *
Elizabeth Slade (Conservatives) *
David Wulff (Liberal Democrats)
Tiverton Cranmore

Steve Bush (Independent)
Les Cruwys (Liberal Democrats) *
Chris Daw (Independent) *
Guy Edwards (Conservatives)
Tom Ewings (Labour)
Beckett Fish (Liberal Democrats)
Sue Griggs (Conservatives) *
Lance Kennedy (Liberal Democrats)
Nina Zuleika Lindsay (Conservatives)
Tiverton Lowman

Tim Bridger (Independent)
Jason Chamberlain (Labour)
Rebecca Louise Clarke (Conservatives)
Andy Cuddy (Liberal Democrats)
Gordon Czapiewski (Liberal Democrats)
Neal Davey (Conservatives) *
Matt Farrell (Liberal Democrats)
Colin Slade (Conservatives) *
Tiverton Westexe

Martin Eamonn Atkinson (Green)
Alex Bingham (Labour)
Dave Broom (Liberal Democrats)
Wally Burke (Independent) *
Steve Flaws (Independent)
Jamie Frost (Liberal Democrats)
Claudette Audrey Louise Harrower (Conservatives)
Jason Sonny Albert Lejeune (Independent)
Chris Musgrave (Green)
Stephen Pugh (Conservatives) *
Richard Anthony Hunter Watson (Conservatives)
Upper Culm

James Bartlett (Conservatives) *
Natasha Bradshaw (Liberal Democrats)
Simon Clist (Liberal Democrats) *
Michael Royston Cooper (Conservatives)
Terrence Joseph Edwards (Labour)
Upper Yeo & Taw

Peter Heal (Conservatives) *
Natalia Letch (Liberal Democrats)
Stuart Penny (Conservatives) *
Hayden Stuart Owen Sharp (Labour)
Andi Wyer (Liberal Democrats) *
Way

Polly Colthorpe (Conservatives) *
Rosie Wibberley (Green)
Yeo

Martin David Binks (Conservatives)
Sandy Chenore (Liberal Democrats)
John William Dean (Labour)
Angus Howie (Conservatives)
Danuta Karpinska (Green)
Paul Perriman (Liberal Democrats)