The list of candidates standing for election in next month’s Budleigh Salterton Town Council election has been published.
The election will be held on May 7. Nominations closed yesterday (April 9).
This is the first time in 20 years that an election will be held for the town council, as never before in that time has the number of candidates exceeded the number of available seats.
Twelve seats on the council are available.
The list of candidates, published by East Devon District Council this morning (Friday), is as follows:
Trevor Child
Alan Dent – Conservative
Lynda Evans
Anthony Gooding
Steve Hall
Harry Harrison
John Harvey
Mike Hilliar
Alan Jones
Megan Kenneally-Stone
Chris Kitson
Richard Mitchell
Benedict Murrell
Courtney Richards
Caz Sismore-Hunt
Tom Wright
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