New date for contested Parish Council elections

Due to the General Election being held on the same day as the District Council elections on 6th May, the contested Parish Council elections in Wyre Forest have been delayed.

This means that the Parish Council elections in Bewdley Town (East, West and Wribbenhall) and Upper Arley (Shatterford and Pound Green) will be held between 7am and 10pm on Thursday 27^th May 2010. Everyone entitled to vote in these Parish Council elections will be receiving their polling cards shortly.

Ian Miller, the Returning Officer for Wyre Forest District Council said,

"Parish Councils are an important part of local government, and it is pleasing to see the democratic process flourishing at all levels in Wyre Forest."

Parish Council elections that were scheduled for this year in Chaddesley Corbett, Kidderminster Foreign, Rushock, Stone and Upper Arley (Arley Village) were not contested, as the number of validly nominated candidates was the same as or less than the number of seats to be filled.  For these parishes, the election date does not change and the candidates will be declared elected unopposed. 

For the contested Parish Council elections, there is a further period for candidates to be nominated which runs from 21^st April until 12 noon on Thursday 29^th April.  If, after the close of withdrawals, candidates have withdrawn so as to make the election uncontested then there would be no election for that parish on 27th May.

Date of issue - 22nd April 2010