A total of 80 candidates will contest Derby City Council’s next final ‘third’ election on Thursday, May 5, to win a council seat for just one year. From next year there will be an election every four years with all 51 council seats up for grabs in 2023.
But in the meantime for 2022 a number of former councilors have been appointed and three of the city’s political group leaders are defending their seats – Ruth Skelton (Lib Dems) Chris Poulter (Conservatives) and Alan Graves senior (Reform Derby). Nadine Peatfield, deputy leader of the Labor group, is also defending her seat.
Returning former advisers include John Whitby, Paul Bayliss, Martin Rawson, Farhatullah Khan, Ashiq Hussain and Richard Hudson, who will line up to compete for one of 17 seats under the outgoing third party system, which has seen an election every three years and the fourth year without an election.
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Candidates are running for the Conservative, Green, Labour, Labor and Co-operative, Liberal Democrat, Reform Derby and Reform UK and English Democrats parties, as well as an independent candidate. There are two candidates less than last year.
Elections should have been held in 2020, but were postponed to 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Some councilors have decided not to run again, including Paul Bettany and Stephen Willoughby. Deputy Mayor Alan Grimadell, who won his seat in Darley by one vote last year, after then-Labour leader Lisa Eldret retired three years into her term four-year-old finds himself again in contention for the seat. The former mayors in the running are Peter Berry, John Whitby and Frank Harwood.
Of the seats up for grabs, eight are Conservative seats, four are Labour, three Liberal Democrats and two Derby Reform.
Overall, the current situation in the Tory-led City Council is as follows: Tories 21 seats, Labor 13, Liberal Democrats nine, Reform Derby six and two independent councillors. The conservatives have been in minority control of the authority since 2018.
The district with the most nominations is Chellaston, where in addition to the main political groups, an independent candidate, Celia Ingall, is running.
In-person voting will take place at 87 polling stations across the city, but around 30,000 people are expected to vote in advance using mail-in voting.
Here is the full list of candidates for Derby City Council in 2022:
Abbey District
Paul Thomas Hezelgrave – Labor and Co-operative Party *
Helen Georgina Hitchcock – Green Party
Adam Mark Hurt – Curator
Farhatullah Khan – Liberal Democrats
Julie Claire Paxton – Reform Derby and Reform UK
Allestree District
David Charles Adams – Reform Derby and Reform UK
Andrew James Bird – Liberal Democrats
Patrick Richey Green – Work
Tony Mott – Green Party
Roy Michael Webb – Curator *
Alvaston neighborhood
Peter Stanley Berry – Curator
David Rhys Edwards – Liberal Democrats
Alan Wayne Graves – Reform Derby and Reform UK *
Tom Spray – Labor and Co-operative Party
Neighborhood Arboretum
Stephen Maurice Handley- Reform Derby and Reform UK
Edward Jon Harrison – Curator
Shiraz Khan – work *
Jairo Fernando Marrero – Liberal Democrats
Blagreaves area
Saquib Amin – Work
David Rodney Jennings – Curator
Ruth Skelton – Liberal Democrats *
James Wise – Reform Derby and Reform UK
Boulton neighborhood
Chris Howlett – Curator
Alan Lindsey – Reform Derby and Reform UK
Iain Parker – Work
Jane Elizabeth Katherine Webb – Liberal Democrats
Neighborhood Chaddesden
John Phillip Banks – labor and cooperative
Rob Cooper – Curator *
Stevie Hardy – Green Party
Glenda Anne Howcroft – Liberal Democrats
Alfred Vaughan Saxby – Reform Derby and Reform UK
Chellaston District
Célia Ingall – Independent
Ross McCristal – Curator *
Viv Pointon – Work
Daniel Peter Thompson – Green Party
George Daniel Warren – Reform Derby and Reform UK
Paul James Wilson – Liberal Democrats
Neighborhood Darley
Alan Leslie Grimadell – Curator *
Lucy Ann Murphy – Reform Derby and Reform UK
Carmel Swan – Labor and Co-op
Jane Sarah Temple – Green Party
Gregory Philip Webb – Liberal Democrats
Neighborhood Derwent
Gaynor Collick – Curator
Gouy de Muyncke – Reform Derby and Reform UK
Richard Hudson – Liberal Democrats
Martin James Rawson – Labor and Co-operative
Littleover neighborhood
Carol Lynne Bradley – Reform Derby and Reform UK
Lucy Helen Care – Liberal Democrats *
Jak Jason Edward Carr – Green Party
Philip Andrew Hutchinson – Labor and Co-operative
Ed Packham – Curator
Mackworth Neighborhood
Carmine Branco – Liberal Democrats
Nigel John Caulton – Reform Derby and Reform UK
Adrian Michael Pegg – Curator *
Neighborhood Sam – Green
John Michael Whitby – work
Mickleover Neighborhood
Jonathan Paul Bayliss – work
Alison Joyce Holmes – Curator *
Nick Northover – Liberal Democrats
Steve Peach – Reform Derby and Reform UK
Holly Rushbrooke – Green Party
Normanton neighborhood
Anthony Blaney – Reform Derby and Reform UK
Abdul Basit Jabbar – Liberal Democrats
Jamie Mulhall – Curator
Balbir Singh Sandhu – Labor and Cooperative *
Oakwood neighborhood
Mick Barker – Curator *
Helen Barbara Caulton – Reform Derby and Reform UK
Molly Christodoulou – Green Party
Frank Harwood – Liberal Democrats
Neil Wilson – Labor and Co-op
Sinfin District
David William Black – English Democrats
Jay Joshi – Curator
Paul John Lind – Liberal Democrats
Brenden De-Clive May – Reform Derby and Reform UK
Nadine Dawn Louise Peatfield – Work *
Spondon district
Stephen William Fowke – Reform Derby and Reform UK
Ashiq Hussain – Work
Christopher Paul Poulter – Curator *
Victor Thomas Wood – Green Party
Philip Anthony Wray – Liberal Democrats
* stand for re-election
