SEATS on Swanage Town Council are being heavily fought this Thursday (2nd) with election contests in both of the town’s six-seat wards.

At Wareham seventeen candidates have put their names forward for the sixteen seats with no Conservatives listed as standing and half of the candidates describing themselves as Independent.

In Wareham St Martin there will be no election with insufficient candidates while in the Sandford ward only six candidates had put themselves forward for the nine seats, with only one candidate for the two seats in the Holton Heath ward.

Swanage Town Council North (6 seats)

 Sarah Brookes Independent; Paul Chaston Local Conservative; Megan Coward Independent; Tina Foster Local Conservative; Woody Harding Labour; John Kaiser Local Conservative; John LeJeune Local Conservative; Ian McDavid Independent; James Mercer Labour; Chris Moreton Local Conservative; Matt Piper Lib Dem; William Trite Local Conservative.

Swanage Town Council South (6) 

Mike Bonfield Local Conservative; Jules Dorrington Labour; Philip Eades Independent; Caroline Finch Local Conservative; Heidi Lucas Local Conservative; Helen McDavid Independent; Debby Monkhouse Labour; Gary Suttle Local Conservative; Cliff Sutton Labour; Chris Tomes Local Conservative; Sarah Vile Labour; Michael Whitwam Local Conservative; Chris Wood Independent.

Wareham Town (16 seats) 

David Budd Lib Dem; Doreen Cleaton Lib Dem; Marian Cotton Independent; Keith Critchley Lib Dem; Andy Dallimore Lib Dem; Ian Davey Independent for the Good of Wareham; Bob Dean Independent; Sue Dean Independent; Zoe Gover Independent; Vera Green Lib Dem; Martin Hill Independent for the Good of Wareham; Ryan Holloway Lib Dem; Lucia Kirk Lib Dem; Malcolm Lewis-Fry Independent; David Robinson Lib Dem; Molly Tighe Independent; Susan Wheatley Independent.