{"id":21865,"date":"2019-01-04T18:10:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T17:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=21865"},"modified":"2019-01-04T18:10:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T17:10:41","slug":"local-elections-on-may-2nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=21865","title":{"rendered":"Local Elections on May 2nd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19010401.jpg\" alt=\"Local Elections\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolinelucas.com\/\">Caroline Lucas<\/a>, of the Green Party, was in Abingdon this lunchtime. She spoke to members of the Green party, and some other interested people, and answered questions in the back room of the Brewery Tap.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19010403.jpg\" alt=\"Local Elections\" \/><br \/>\nShe is here to support the Green Party candidate for the Abbey Northcourt ward, Cheryl Briggs, in the upcoming local elections on Thursday May 2nd. That is when we, the voters of Abingdon, choose a new Abingdon-on-Thames Town Council, and a Vale of White Horse District Council.<\/p>\n<p>Now is the time that people are thinking of putting their name forward to become a councillor to try to make a difference for Abingdon, and parties are looking for candidates. People can either be selected to stand by a political party, or stand as an Independent. The following link has an introduction on how to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/get-involved\/take-part\/become-a-councillor\">become a councillor<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The Abingdon wards are as follows :<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19010402.jpg\" alt=\"Local Elections\" \/><br \/>\nAbbey  &#8211; 2 Town Councillors<br \/>\nCaldecott  &#8211; 4 Town Councillors<br \/>\nDunmore  &#8211; 4 Town Councillors<br \/>\nFitzharris Wildmoor &#8211; 1 Town Councillor<br \/>\nFitzharris Ock &#8211; 2 Town Councillors<br \/>\nNorthcourt  &#8211; 2 Town Councillors<br \/>\nPeachcroft- 4 Town Councillors<\/p>\n<p>Abbey Northcourt &#8211; 2 district councillors<br \/>\nCaldecott  &#8211; 2 district councillors<br \/>\nDunmore  &#8211; 2 district councillors<br \/>\nFitzharris  &#8211; 2 district councillors<br \/>\nPeachcroft  &#8211; 2 district councillors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caroline Lucas, of the Green Party, was in Abingdon this lunchtime. She spoke to members of the Green party, and some other interested people, and answered questions in the back room of the Brewery Tap. She is here to support the Green Party candidate for the Abbey Northcourt ward, Cheryl Briggs, in the upcoming local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}