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There will be 17 seats on St Helens Council to be contested overall across 16 wards. Labour is seeking to keep a grip on power while opposition parties and independent candidates are aiming to make inroads into the majority. A total of 48 councillors make up the council, three in each ward but two seats are vacant – one in the Windle ward and one in Earlestown. Therefore, currently, there are 46 councillors with 34 Labour; four Liberal Democrats; three Conservatives; three independents and two Greens. Key issues in the campaign have included St Helens’ post-Covid recovery and th...

Ballot box THIS year's local elections in St Helens will see several independent candidates running once again. There are currently three independent councillors at the town hall, who are not affiliated to a political party. Independent candidates have risen in prominence in recent years, especially in Rainhill ward, which has seen independents elected at the last two elections, with James Tasker and Donna Greaves displacing the Labour incumbents in 2018 and 2019. Here is what some of the independent candidates standing in 2021 said to the Star about the campaign and the issues they a...