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And in one election, a teenager is hoping to become the country s youngest councillor. Standing in his way in the Trull, Pitminster and Corfe by-election for a seat on Somerset West and Taunton Council will be a councillor of many years experience and the only candidate local to the patch. Among those hoping to attract your vote for the vacancy left by the resignation in February of Liberal Democrat councillor Martin Hill will be the 18-year-old chairman of the Labour party in Taunton Deane. Samuel Booker, a previous president of the student union at Exeter University, was just 17 when he took up the post in the local Labour party.