Lincolnshire County Council election 2021: who are the candidates standing in the Sleaford area?

Elections will take place for Lincolnshire County Councillors, the Office of Police and Crime Commissioner for Lincolnshire, a by-election district councillor in Bassingham and Brant Broughton ward of North Kesteven and for a Sleaford Town Councillor in the town’s Quarrington Ward.

There will also be a by election for five seats on Pointon and Sempringham Parish Council.

It is expected that the combination of both the PPC and county elections will boost turnout figures this time, along with a predicted upsurge in postal voting due to the pandemic.

Requirements at polling stations will include face coverings, hand sanitiser and safe distancing. Voters should expect to queue. You are asked to go alone and to take your own pen or pencil for extra covid-safe certainty.

There will be five candidates standing for the Police and Crime Commissioner elections, which were postponed from last year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Police and Crime Commissioner’s four-year role is to represent the people of Lincolnshire on policing matters and hold the police to account.

The five named candidates are:

l Escreet, Peter Anthony - Reform UK

l Jones, Marc Stuart - Conservative Candidate - More Police, Safer Streets

l Kirk, Rosanne Christina - Labour and Cooperative Party

l Pepper, Ross David - Liberal Democrat

l Williams, David Vaughan - Lincolnshire Independents

The following candidates are standing in the Sleaford and district area for Lincolnshire County Council

Bassingham & Welbourn Division

l Eckert, Russell – The Conservative Party Candidate

l Overton, Marianne Jane – Lincolnshire Independents

l Townsend, Vonnie – Labour Party

Folkingham Rural Division

l Hansen, The Chocolate Man - Independent

l Hill, Martin John - The Conservative Party Candidate

l Richardson, Paul Jeffery - Labour and Co-operative Party

Grantham North Division

l Hasnip, Wayne Andrew - Labour Party

l Simmons, Ian Paul - Green Party

l Wootten, Ray - The Conservative Party Candidate

Heckington Division

l Key, Andrew Michael - The Conservative Party Candidate

l Peacock, Jennifer Helen – Labour Party

Hough Division

l Blackwell, Andrew - Labour Party

l Maughan, Alexander Paul - The Conservative Party Candidate

l Wood, Paul - Independent

Metheringham Rural Division

l Bissitt, Calvin – Labour and Co-operative Party

l Byatt, Nick - Lincolnshire Independents

l Kendrick, Rob - The Conservative Party Candidate

Potterhanworth & Coleby Division

l Carrington, Ian David - The Conservative Party Candidate

l Chapman, Stephen John – Liberal Democrat

l Edwards-Shea, Linda – Labour Party

l Lundgren, Peter Charles – Lincolnshire Independents

Ruskington Division

l Lowndes, Linda Margaret – Labour Party

l Wright, Richard - The Conservative Party Candidate

Sleaford Division

l Allan, Mark Guy – The Conservative Party Candidate

l Edwards-Shea, Paul Andrew – Labour Party

l Greetham, Robert Charles – Independent

l Hislop, Susan Elizabeth – Liberal Democrat

l Hunt, Edwin – Independent

l Lorimer, Heather Katherine – Independent

l Oates, Robert Arthur – Lincolnshire Independents

Sleaford Rural Division

l Hagues, Andrew Gibson – The Conservative Party Candidate

l Mason, Steve – Independent

l Smith, Ian Beresford – Liberal Democrat

l Suiter, David – Lincolnshire Independents

l White, Keith Richard – Labour Party

North Kesteven District Council by-election (1 seat):

Brant Broughton and Bassingham Ward

l Bauer, Penelope Jane – Lincolnshire Independents

l Eckert, Russell – The Conservative Party Candidate

l Wright, Tom – Labour Party

Sleaford Town Council, Quarrington Ward by-election (1 seat)

l Fink, Robert Adam – Independent

l Gill, Shaun Michael – Labour Party

l Hislop, Susan Elizabeth – Liberal Democrat

l Mason, Steve – Independent

l Smith, Mark Antony – The Conservative Party Candidate

Pointon and Sempringahm Parish Council by-election (5 seats):

l Clarke, Rob

l Driver, Lee

l Freeman, Georgina Catharine

l Green, Christine Joan

l Keeley, Jayne

l Scarfe, Austin

l Taylor, Joyce

l Turner, Murray Frank

l Wesley, Dean Charles