{"id":2745,"date":"2022-04-19T13:11:53","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T13:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/?p=2745"},"modified":"2022-04-19T13:18:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T13:18:28","slug":"council-elections-view-your-candidates-for-elections-thursday-5-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/?p=2745","title":{"rendered":"Council elections &#8211; view your candidates for elections Thursday 5 May"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>On Thursday 5 May 2022, elections will take place to elect the council&#8217;s 45 borough ward councillors and the Tower Hamlets executive mayor.<\/h2>\n<p>Our local polling station is Our Lady and St Catherine of Siena Parish Hall, 179A Bow Road, E3 2SG.<\/p>\n<p>You can cast your vote between 7am-10pm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Below is the list of candidates standing in our ward, Bow East, and the parties they represent:<\/strong><br \/>\nAmina Ali\u00a0 (Labour)*<br \/>\nRachel Blake\u00a0 (Labour)*<br \/>\nEllis Bright\u00a0 (Green)<br \/>\nRobin Edwards\u00a0 (Conservative)<br \/>\nLiza Franchi\u00a0 (Liberal Democrats)<br \/>\nMarc Francis\u00a0 (Labour)*<br \/>\nSimon Herbert\u00a0 (Liberal Democrats)<br \/>\nMonzo Khaton\u00a0 (Aspire)<br \/>\nRahima Khatun (Aspire)<br \/>\nLesley Lincoln\u00a0 (Conservative)<br \/>\nRichard MacMillan\u00a0 (Liberal Democrats)<br \/>\nNicola Power (Green)<br \/>\nMasood Rahman (Aspire)<br \/>\nImogen Sinclair (Conservative)<br \/>\n* current councillors<\/p>\n<p><strong>The candidates for mayor are:<\/strong><br \/>\nJohn Biggs\u00a0 (Labour)*<br \/>\nPamela Holmes (independent)<br \/>\nRabina Khan (Liberal Democrats)<br \/>\nHugo Pierre (Trade Unionist &amp; Socialist Coalition)<br \/>\nLutfur Rahman\u00a0 (Aspire)<br \/>\nElliott Weaver\u00a0 (Conservative)<br \/>\nAndrew Wood (independent)<br \/>\n* current mayor<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-london-32428648\">Lutfur Rahman served as Tower Hamlets first directly elected mayor from 2010 to 2015. He stood for Labour in 2010 and for Tower Hamlets First in 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a rundown of the candidates standing for the three Bow East ward councillors in the election, and the list of mayoral candidates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-notices","category-tower-hamlets-council"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fcara.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/voting-banner-2.jpg?fit=1320%2C783&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4GT9s-Ih","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2754,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions\/2754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}