CANDIDATES have been unveiled for a number of elections in Somerset this month.
Polls have been called for seats on Frome Town Council, Shepton Mallet Town Council, as well as for two seats on Somerset Council, representing Glastonbury and Dunster.
Below is the list of nominated people standing in the elections:
Frome Town Council – Market Ward: October 9, 2025:
- Claude Atkinson – Conservative Party
- Damon John Hooton – Liberal Democrats
- Lyndsey Mayhew – Independents for Frome
- Neil Sheppard
- Tim Stevens – Reform UK
Shepton Mallet Town Council – East Ward: October 23, 2025:
- Fergus Brown – Independent
- Richard Last – Conservative Party
- Christine Martin-Nicholson – Liberal Democrats
- David Swain – Reform UK
Somerset Council – Dunster Division: October 23, 2025:
- James Luke Bellamy – Conservative Party
- Terry Ledlie – Labour Party
- Jonathan Leigh Rollason – Reform UK
- Cara Elizabeth Strom – Liberal Democrats
Somerset Council – Glastonbury Division: October 23, 2025:
- Ewan Cameron – Liberal Democrats
- Gregory Lawrence Chambers – Labour Party
- Jon Cousins – The Green Party
- Lilli Osborn – Conservative Party
- Henry Warne – Reform UK
READ MORE: Politics news from your Somerset Leveller
Note – Fergus Brown is a prominent Labour Party member…has he left or is there a reason he’s not standing under their banner?