Voting for Redbridge Council takes place on Thursday 7 May from 7am to 10pm – in our new five party system it’s become a hotly contested battle. Canvassing and high street stalls have become the order of the day, as have the infamous bar charts which ‘prove’ that one or more parties ‘cannot win here’.
These are the candidates:
Wanstead Village Ward
| Md Kabir Ali | Green Party |
| Jo Blackman | Labour Party |
| William John Collins | Reform UK |
| Corbyn Leon D’Alanno | Conservative and Unionist Party |
| David Davies | Reform UK |
| Mark Gitsham | Liberal Democrats |
| Sharmon Lewis | Reform UK |
| Daniel Huw Morgan-Thomas | Labour Party |
| Humza Sair | Liberal Democrats |
| Mark Evan Scannell | Conservative and Unionist Party |
| David Smith | Conservative and Unionist Party |
| Rabiya Tehseen | Green Party |
| Mohammed Ohid Uddin | Liberal Democrats |
| Neal Krishan Vithlani | Labour Party |
| Sue Whitehead | Green Party |
Wanstead Park Ward
| Milli Richards Clack | Green Party |
| Nadir Iqbal Gilani | Green Party |
| Neil Hepworth | Liberal Democrats |
| Andrew Malcolm Joyce | Reform UK |
| Simon John Miller | Labour Party |
| Yit Chan Phoenix | Reform UK |
| Emma Selina Shepherd-Mallinson | Labour Party |
| Paul Anton Smith | Conservative and Unionist Party |
| David Alexander Thom | Conservative and Unionist Party |
| Alan Howard Thomas | Liberal Democrats |
Details of where you should vote are on your polling card (if you can’t find it but are on the electoral register, YOU CAN STILL VOTE). You can find out where you should vote based on your postcode at this excellent site, wheredoivote.co.uk. Redbridge has information here.
If you don’t know WHO to vote for, that sounds like a you problem. But you will be able to hear from the candidates at a hustings event on Tuesday evening at Wanstead Library.
Very disappointed by the misleading bar chart on the labour flyer. It’s a poll from 2018 which doesn’t represent the current situation at all! When I challenged Neal on it on the high street he backtracked and said it was Labour against the Greens