🗳️ 2017 Suffolk County Council local election

Gunton division

This election was held on Thursday 4 May 2017.

9 candidates stood in the Gunton division.

• Steve Ardley

  Conservative and Unionist Party

  

• Emma Jane Bateman

  Green Party

  

• Rupert Kenneth Butlin

  Green Party

  

• Janet Elizabeth Craig

  Labour Party

  

• Bernie Guymer

  UK Independence Party (UKIP)

  

• Jenny Hinton

  UK Independence Party (UKIP)

  

• Keith John Patience

  Labour Party

  

• Mary Rudd

  Conservative and Unionist Party

  

• Steven John Taylor

  Liberal Democrats

  

In some areas, local government is split between a county council and a district council. On 4 May 2017 you will elect your county councillor(s) in a first past the post election. Your county council is responsible for services across the whole county, including:

• Education
• Streets and roads
• Planning
• Fire and public safety
• Social care
• Libraries
• Waste management
• Trading standards

Separately your district council is responsible for services delivered at a local level, including:

• Rubbish collection
• Recycling
• Council Tax collections
• Housing
• Planning applications

Your district councillors are elected in separate elections.

To vote in a local government election in England you must be:

• 18 years of age or over on polling day
• a British citizen, a qualifying Commonwealth citizen, or a citizen of the European Union
• resident in the UK
• not be subject to any legal incapacity to vote