{"id":10241,"date":"2017-04-05T14:36:50","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T13:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/?p=10241"},"modified":"2017-04-05T14:36:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T13:36:50","slug":"candidates-west-england-combined-authority-mayoral-election-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/business-and-economy\/candidates-west-england-combined-authority-mayoral-election-named\/","title":{"rendered":"Candidates for West of England Combined Authority Mayoral Election named"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The names of the six candidates standing in the first West of England Combined Authority Mayoral election have been published.<\/p>\n<p>Those standing in the West of England Mayoral election are:<br \/>\nTim Bowles \u2013 The Conservative Party<br \/>\nAaron Warren Foot \u2013 UK Independence Party (UKIP)<br \/>\nDarren Edward Hall \u2013 Green Party<br \/>\nLesley Ann Mansell \u2013 Labour and Co-operative Party<br \/>\nJohn Christopher Savage \u2013 Independent<br \/>\nStephen Williams \u2013 Liberal Democrats<\/p>\n<p>Registered voters in South Gloucestershire will have their say on Thursday 4 May on who becomes the first Mayor for the West of England Combined Authority.<\/p>\n<p>Only those registered to vote will be able to have their say in this election and the deadline to register passes at midnight on Thursday 13 April. Registering to vote can be done in minutes online. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.uk\/register-to-vote\" target=\"_blank\">www.gov.uk\/register-to-vote<\/a> with your national insurance number and follow the on-screen instructions.<\/p>\n<p>From mid-April, everyone in South Gloucestershire who is registered to vote can expect to receive a Mayoral Election booklet which includes information about the election and a campaign statement from those candidates who wished to be included.<\/p>\n<p>The Combined Authority Returning Officer is legally required to produce this booklet for all registered voters.<\/p>\n<p>The \u00a31 billion West of England devolution deal, brings powers and money from national Government to our region, with the ability to make local decisions about spatial planning (including where new homes are planned and where investment in new services is needed to support their development), adult education and skills, employment and regional transport.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the devolution deal there needs to be a regional authority and an elected regional Mayor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The names of the six candidates standing in the first West of England Combined Authority Mayoral election have been published. Those standing in the West of England Mayoral election are: Tim Bowles \u2013 The Conservative Party Aaron Warren Foot \u2013 UK Independence Party (UKIP) Darren Edward Hall \u2013 Green Party Lesley Ann Mansell \u2013 Labour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[531],"tags":[611,841,1731],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10262,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10241\/revisions\/10262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.southglos.gov.uk\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}