Eleven to fight for Warrington seats

THERE were no last minute surprises when nominations closed this afternoon for the Parliamentary elections in Warrington to be held on May 7.
Six candidates will be competing for the crucial marginal Warrington South seat while in Labour stronghold Warrington North there will be five candidates.
All had made their intentions known some time ago.
The line-up in Warrington South is: Bob Barr (Liberal Democrat), Kevin Bennett  (Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition), Nick Bent (Labour), Stephanie Davies (Green Party), Mal Lingley (UKIP) and David Mowat (Conservative).
Kin Warrington North the line-up is: Sarah Hayes  (Green Party), Helen Jones (Labour Party), Stefan Krizanac (Liberal Democrat), Trevor Nicholls (UKIP) and Richard Short (Conservative).
At the last General Election in 2010. David Mowat won the seat for the Conservatives wit 35.8 per cent of the vote, polling 19,641 votes to Nick Bent’s 18,088 for Labour – a majority of 1,553.
Jo Crotty for the Liberal Democrats polled 15,094.
In Warrington North, Helen Jones held the seat for Labour with 20,135 votes – 45.5 per cent of the poll.  Paul Campbell came second for the Conservatives with 13,365 while Dave Eccles, Liberal Democrat came third with 9,196.
The Labour majority was 6,771.