AS POLLING day approaches for the local and the European Parliament elections, voters across the Stroud district are receiving their postal voting papers.
Both elections take place on Thursday, May 22 with 98 polling stations open from 7am to 10pm.
There are 18 district council seats will be contested and this week the Gazette is looking at what the party’s promise to do for its constituents.
In the Gazette’s readership the wards of Berkeley, Cam East, Cam West, Coaley and Uley, Dursley, Severn, Vale and Wotton-under-Edge have their seat up for grabs.
The total number of seats on SDC is 51, with the Conservatives currently holding 21, five shy of what is needed to control the administration.
The political breakdown of the contested seats is: Conservative – nine, Labour – three,
Liberal Democrats – three, Green – one, Conservative No Group – one, Independent - one (by-election).
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