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Post by AdminSTB on Nov 8, 2024 12:02:34 GMT
Hertfordshire
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Post by listener on Nov 9, 2024 0:28:58 GMT
Who is retiring?
HERTFORDSHIRE
Elected in 2021 (78): Con 46, Lib Dem 23, Lab 7, Green Party 1, Independent 1
Retiring Councillors (as at 09.11.2024) (78): Con 44, Lib Dem 23, Lab 7, Independent/Green Group 2 (Independent 1, Green Party 1), Not Specified 1, Vacant 1
Broxbourne
Steve Wortley (Con) (Cheshunt Central)
Mark Mills-Bishop (Con) (Flamstead End and Turnford)
*Lesley Greensmyth (Con) (Goffs Oak and Bury Green)
Lewis Cocking, MP (Con) (Hoddesdon North)
Paul Mason (Con) (Hoddesdon South)
*Dee Hart (Con) (Waltham Cross)
Dacorum
Nigel Taylor (Lib Dem) (Berkhamsted)
Terry Douris (Con) (Bridgewater)
Andrew Williams, MBE (Con) (Hemel Hempstead East)
*Colette Wyatt-Lowe (Con) (Hemel Hempstead North East)
*Fiona Guest (Con) (Hemel Hempstead North West)
*Jan Maddern (Independent) (Hemel Hempstead South East)
Ron Tindall (Lib Dem) (Hemel Hempstead St. Paul’s)
Adrian England (Lib Dem) (Hemel Hempstead Town)
Richard Roberts (Con) (Kings Langley)
*Sally Symington (Lib Dem) (Tring)
East Hertfordshire
Calvin Horner (Lib Dem) (Bishop’s Stortford East)
Graham McAndrew (Con) (Bishop’s Stortford Rural)
Alastair Ward-Booth (Con) (Bishop’s Stortford West)
Jeff Jones (Con) (Buntingford)
Dr Ben Crystall (Green Party) (Hertford All Saints)
Ken Crofton (Con) (Hertford Rural)
Bob Deering (Con) (Hertford St. Andrew’s)
Eric Buckmaster (Con) (Sawbridgeworth)
David Andrews (Con) (Ware North)
Jonathan Kaye (Con) (Ware South)
Hertsmere
*Michelle Vince (Lab) (Borehamwood North)
Richard Butler (Lab) (Borehamwood South)
Laurence Brass (Lib Dem) (Bushey North)
Seamus Quilty (Con) (Bushey South)
John Graham (Con) (Potters Bar East)
Morris Bright, MBE (Con) (Potters Bar West and Shenley)
*Caroline Clapper (Con) (Watling)
North Hertfordshire
Michael Muir (Con) (Baldock and Letchworth East)
Ian Albert (Lab) (Hitchin North) – elected in by-election (09.02.2023)
David Barnard (Con) (Hitchin Rural)
Keith Hoskins (Lib Dem) (Hitchin South) – elected in by-election (10.03.2022)
Richard Thake (Con) (Knebworth and Codicote)
*Tina Bhartwas (Lab) (Letchworth North)
Terry Hone (Con) (Letchworth South)
*Fiona Hill (Con) (Royston East and Ermine)
Steve Jarvis (Lib Dem) (Royston West and Rural)
St. Albans
John Hale (Lib Dem) (Colney Heath and Marshalswick)
Paul de Kort (Lib Dem) (Harpenden North East)
*Dr Allison Wren (Lib Dem) (Harpenden Rural) – elected in by-election (07.12.2023)
*Teresa Heritage (Con) (Harpenden South West)
*Sarah Tallon (Con) (London Colney)
Chris White, OBE (Lib Dem) (St. Albans Central)
Anthony Rowlands (Lib Dem) (St. Albans East)
*Helen Campbell (Lib Dem) (St. Albans North)
Sandy Walkington (Lib Dem) (St. Albans South)
*Stella Nash (Con) (St. Stephen’s)
Stevenage
*Ellie Plater (Lab) (Bedwell) – elected in by-election (29.08.2024)
Adam Mitchell (Con) (Broadwater)
Robin Parker (Lib Dem) (Chells)
Graham Lawrence (Con) (Old Stevenage)
Phil Bibby (Con) (St. Nicholas)
*Roni Hearn (Con) (Shephall)
Three Rivers
*Sara Bedford (Not specified, elected as Lib Dem) (Abbots Langley)
Chris Lloyd (Lib Dem) (Croxley)
*Reena Ranger, OBE (Con) (Rickmansworth East and Oxhey Park)
*Paula Hiscocks (Con) (Rickmansworth West)
Christopher Alley (Con) (South Oxhey and Eastbury)
Phil Williams (Lib Dem) (Three Rivers Rural)
Watford
Stephen Giles-Medhurst (Lib Dem) (Central Watford and Oxhey)
Stephen Cavinder (Lib Dem) (Meriden Tudor)
Mark Watkin (Lib Dem) (Nascot Park)
Asif Khan (Lab) (North Watford)
Nigel Bell (Lab) (West Watford)
Tim Williams (Lib Dem) (Woodside Stanborough)
Welwyn Hatfield
Sunny Thusu (Con) (Haldens)
*Fiona Thomson (Con) (Handside and Peartree)
Peter Hebden (Con) (Hatfield East)
Vacant (Hatfield North) – previously James Bond (Con)
Stephen Boulton (Con) (Hatfield Rural)
Paul Zukowskyj (Lib Dem) (Hatfield South)
Tony Kingsbury (Con) (Welwyn)
Marios Artemi (Con) (Welwyn Garden City South)
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ColinJ
Labour
Living in the Past
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Post by ColinJ on Nov 14, 2024 12:16:13 GMT
Three Rivers *Sara Bedford (Not specified, elected as Lib Dem) (Abbots Langley) Chris Lloyd (Lib Dem) (Croxley) *Reena Ranger, OBE (Con) (Rickmansworth East and Oxhey Park) *Paula Hiscocks (Con) (Rickmansworth West) Christopher Alley (Con) (South Oxhey and Eastbury) Phil Williams (Lib Dem) (Three Rivers Rural) The situation regarding Sara Bedford has become quite clear recently. She is definitely to be considered as an Independent, and she is clearly going to be a candidate for Abbots Langley whatever the Liberal Democrats might do. There has been a frenzy of leaflets and residents' surgeries, from both Mrs Bedford and the Lib Dems, in the village. Also, Sara is appealing for help delivering leaflets..... 
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Nov 14, 2024 12:21:52 GMT
Interesting the places she namechecks as neither Bedmond or Hunton Bridge are in her county division and Hunton Bridge is not in her district ward either
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ColinJ
Labour
Living in the Past
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Post by ColinJ on Nov 14, 2024 13:03:37 GMT
Interesting the places she namechecks as neither Bedmond or Hunton Bridge are in her county division and Hunton Bridge is not in her district ward either Good spot! Tbf her leaflet covered a lot more issues and the subtleties of the boundaries are probably lost on the electorate. |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Nov 14, 2024 13:18:54 GMT
It does point to the difficulties the Lib Dems are going to have here next May. It was just about possible, given their strength in four of the five western districts (and they've a few plausible targets in the East of the county too), that the Lib Dems could win a majority here in May. I didn't think it likely but they certainly seemed well placed to make a play for that outcome.
But they now appear to be in various kinds of disarray in Three Rivers and Dacorum (forthcoming by-elections there will be instructive) and losing support in St Albans (vis recent by-election in Harpenden) - Chris White could even be under threat from the Greens in St Albans Central. Not to say the Conservatives don't have a hard job retaining their majority here. They hold some seats in Stevenage and Welwyn Hatfield for example that should be low hanging fruit for Labour, but that party being less than popular in government currently makes some of these gains less certain (and Borehamwood which bucked the trend last time could again swing the other way)
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Post by mattb on Nov 14, 2024 20:36:51 GMT
Interesting the places she namechecks as neither Bedmond or Hunton Bridge are in her county division and Hunton Bridge is not in her district ward either Most of Hunton Bridge is in fact in the Abbots Langley county division. |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Nov 15, 2024 5:39:48 GMT
I'd always taken it to be just the area West of the railway but I'm sure there are other interpretations and I'll defer to local knowledge there
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Post by heslingtonian on Nov 15, 2024 9:33:06 GMT
Don't know this for definite but I'd be surprised if Chris White stands again. Others may know to the contrary in fairness.
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Post by mattb on Nov 15, 2024 17:47:54 GMT
I'd always taken it to be just the area West of the railway but I'm sure there are other interpretations and I'll defer to local knowledge there The boundary perceived by residents is down the middle of Upper Highway - that's where addresses switch from Hunton Bridge WD4 to Abbots Langley WD5. |
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Post by mattbewilson on Nov 15, 2024 23:23:19 GMT
Don't know this for definite but I'd be surprised if Chris White stands again. Others may know to the contrary in fairness. I agree. He's been on Herts CC for close to 30 years. I know some people serve longer than that though |
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