Exeter residents will take to the polls next Thursday, 1 May, for a major day of local decision-making, with elections taking place for both Exeter City Council and Devon County Council.

Two city council seats are being contested following the resignations of Labour councillors Naima Allcock (Mincinglake and Whipton) and Joshua Ellis-Jones (Topsham).

While these by-elections are limited to their respective wards, the entire city will be voting in elections for all nine of Exeter’s county council divisions.

Despite the by-election shake-up, Labour will retain overall control of Exeter City Council, holding 23 of 39 seats ahead of the vote.

City council by-election candidates

Mincinglake and Whipton

• Martin Ayres – Green Party

• Ian Anthony Baldwin – Conservative Party

• Paula Black – Labour and Co-operative Party

• Angela Martin – Independent

• Tony Payne – Reform UK

• Paul Stephen Richards – Liberal Democrat

Topsham

• James Elie Cookson – Labour Party

• Edward Clive Andrew Hill – Reform UK

• Keith Andrew Sparkes – Conservative Party

• Philip Alexander Thomas – Liberal Democrat

• Greg Wotton – Green Party

County council elections across Exeter

The county council vote will determine who represents Exeter’s nine divisions on Devon County Council. Labour currently holds six of these seats, with the Conservatives holding the remaining three.

Here’s who’s standing in each area:

Alphington and Cowick

• Yvonne Atkinson – Labour and Co-operative Party

• Lucille Baker – Conservative Party

• Holly Gillett – Green Party

• Vanessa Newcombe – Liberal Democrat

• Neil Stevens – Reform UK

Duryard and Pennsylvania

• Tony Badcott – Labour and Co-operative Party

• Bernadette Chelvanayagam – Green Party

• Rob Hannaford – Conservative Party

• James Donald Holman – Reform UK

• Michael Norman Mitchell – Liberal Democrat

Exwick and St Thomas

• Andy Cooper – Green Party

• John Harvey – Labour and Co-operative Party

• Jamie Liam Horner – Liberal Democrat

• Kayleigh Luscombe – Conservative Party

• Tony Stevens – Reform UK

Heavitree and Whipton Barton

• Tina Beer – Reform UK

• Jack Stanley Eade – Green Party

• Katherine Helen New – Conservative Party

• Liz Pole – Labour and Co-operative Party

• Paul Stephen Richards – Liberal Democrat

Pinhoe and Mincinglake

• Martin Ayres – Green Party

• Ian Anthon Baldwin – Conservative Party

• Paula Joan Black – Labour and Co-operative Party

• Christine Anne Campion – Liberal Democrat

• Edward Clive Andrew Hill – Reform UK

St Davids and Haven Banks

• Myles Jefferson Hatcher – Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition

• Andy Ketchin – Green Party

• Rose Lelliott – Labour and Co-operative Party

• Rob Newby – Conservative Party

• Rod Ruffle – Liberal Democrat

• Fran Wroe – Reform UK

St Sidwells and St James

• Will Aczel – Liberal Democrat

• Lucy Findlay – Labour and Co-operative Party

• David Luscombe – Conservative Party

• Thomas Morgan Richardson – Green Party

• Jo Westlake – Reform UK

Wearside and Topsham

• Rosie Green – Green Party

• Andrew Robert Leadbetter – Conservative Party

• Chris Owen – Reform UK

• Philip Alexander Thomas – Liberal Democrat

• Carol Whitton – Labour Party

Wonford and St Loyes

• Anne Margaret Jobson – Conservative Party

• Johanna Franziska Korndorfer – Green Party

• Adrian Lock – Liberal Democrat

• Dave Mutton – Labour Party

• Angela Nash – Reform UK

Polling stations open from 7am to 10pm on Thursday 1 May.