You have to be a member of the party for a reasonable length of time. In the Labour Party, it’s a year. Then you put your name forward to go on a general list and a group of party members will discuss this and decide if you are the right sort of person. Then you go to a meeting where the Labour Party members in the ward you want to represent interview you for about half an hour which can be quite challenging. Then they vote for who they want as their candidate.
You have to decide which party closely represents your views Hannah! Then you have to persuade them that
you are the one! But, you have to be 18 to stand as a councillor. In the Labour Party you can apply to become a member
at 15 My daughter Emma and son Jonnie joined when they were 15.
Generally you become a member of a party and each party has a different way to choose who should stand where. I had done an online survey and found I was 89% Liberal so joined the party. After a few years I got an e-mail to say there was a by-election was I interested. I said no at that time, but would be interested in the future. When we were getting ready for the 2007 elections I filled in a form to say I would be interested and then I was invited to an interview. That is how I got selected to stand to be elected asa councillor. As I said at the begining the other two parties may do something different.
You have to be a member of the party for a reasonable length of time. In the Labour Party, it’s a year. Then you put your name forward to go on a general list and a group of party members will discuss this and decide if you are the right sort of person. Then you go to a meeting where the Labour Party members in the ward you want to represent interview you for about half an hour which can be quite challenging. Then they vote for who they want as their candidate.
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You have to decide which party closely represents your views Hannah! Then you have to persuade them that
you are the one! But, you have to be 18 to stand as a councillor. In the Labour Party you can apply to become a member
at 15 My daughter Emma and son Jonnie joined when they were 15.
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Generally you become a member of a party and each party has a different way to choose who should stand where. I had done an online survey and found I was 89% Liberal so joined the party. After a few years I got an e-mail to say there was a by-election was I interested. I said no at that time, but would be interested in the future. When we were getting ready for the 2007 elections I filled in a form to say I would be interested and then I was invited to an interview. That is how I got selected to stand to be elected asa councillor. As I said at the begining the other two parties may do something different.
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