With nominations closed for the local elections taking place on May 7th it is now confirmed that the sixth-biggest bloc of candidates – behind Labour, the Tories, Reform, the Lib Dems and the Greens – are those using one of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) descriptions on their ballot paper.
The number of local authorities with scheduled contests this May is 136, with councillors being elected in around 3,000 wards or county council divisions. In total there are 289 candidates who are using a TUSC-registered description in the local elections across 64 councils – standing in one in five of the wards in those councils and just under one in ten overall – including candidates for the directly elected mayors of Croydon, Lewisham and Tower Hamlets.
At the same time there will be six constituency candidates using a TUSC description in the Scottish Parliament elections, agreed by the autonomous Scottish Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition, and two constituencies contested by five candidates using a TUSC description in the Welsh Senedd elections (out of 16), with each constituency sending six members to the Senedd on a proportional system.
- The full list is available online tusc.org.uk
