Three polling station locations unveiled for three Telford & Wrekin parish council elections
The locations of three polling stations have been unveiled ahead of three parish council elections for Telford & Wrekin
Polling stations to be used for three parish council by-elections in a polling ‘super Thursday’ at the end of the month have been revealed by ballot day organisers.
Voters in most of Telford & Wrekin will have to wait until next year to cast their crosses but councillors are needed to represent three small areas of the borough following a hat-trick of resignations.
Voters will be asked to roll along to Newport Bowling Club, at Granville Avenue, Newport, to have their say in the Newport South by election.
Any electoral swing in the Smallhill Road Ward of Dawley Hamlets Parish Council will be made at Horsehay Village Golf Club, in Wellington Road, Horsehay.
And voters will be asked to root for their preferred candidate in the Lightmoor Ward of The Gorge Parish Council when they vote at the The Oak Tree Centre, in Lightmoor Way, Lightmoor Village.
Only voters from those areas of the borough will be able to take part in the election on Thursday, April 30, 2026.
A total of 15 candidates are vying for votes with five in each of the three seats.
The Labour Party, the Local Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats, and the Green Party are all putting up candidates in each of the three seats.
Reform is contesting two of the vacancies and there is also one Independent in the mix.
In Newport Town Council’s south ward the candidates are: David Arwyn Ellams, Liberal Democrat Focus Team; Sara Giles, Green Party, Parwiz Karimi, Local Conservatives, Stephen Lumley, Labour Party, and Matthew James Swift, Independent.
Five candidates will also contest the Lightmoor ward of The Gorge Parish Council.
The candidates are Kathryn Banks, Local Conservatives; Jazz Holmes, Green Party; Paul Martin Howard, Liberal Democrats; Ian Preece, Labour Party; and John Rickhuss, Reform UK.
The Smallhill Road Ward of Dawley Hamlets Parish Council will also be contested by five candidates.
They are Archie William Barnett, Liberal Democrats; Byron Cooke, Labour Party; Jack Ryan Hudson, Local Conservatives; Gill Owen, Green Party and Gary Stackhouse, Reform UK.
Polls will be open from 7am to 10pm on Thursday, April 30, 2026.
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