The total listing of candidates standing on this 12 months’s native authorities elections has been printed.
Voters will go to the polls on Thursday, Could 5 to pick out who they wish to signify them within the three wards protecting Dumbarton and the Vale - with some new candidates becoming a member of acquainted faces on the poll paper.
West Dunbartonshire Council is at the moment a minority SNP administration following the defection of Councillor Caroline McAllister to Alex Salmond’s Alba Celebration in 2020.
Councillor McAllister is certainly one of two native members not in search of re-election, becoming a member of SNP member for Dumbarton Iain McLaren.
In Dumbarton McLaren’s SNP colleague Karen Conaghan will be part of Labour’s David McBride and Conservative Brian Walker in in search of re-election.
New faces standing embrace Labour’s Gurpreet Singh Johal, the
brother of Dumbarton man Jagtar Singh Johal who has been
imprisoned in India with out cost since 2017, and Chris Pollock of the SNP.
In Leven, long-serving Neighborhood Celebration member Jim Bollan will as soon as once more be standing - with the SNP’s Ian Dickson and Labour’s John Millar additionally aiming to retain their seats.
They're joined on the poll by former council chief Ronnie McColl (SNP), who's concentrating on a return for frontline politics a decade after shedding his seat, and former training convenor Michelle McGinty (Labour), who misplaced her seat in 2017.
In Lomond in the meantime the SNP are to face only one candidate - council chief Jonathan McColl - with fellow members Sally Web page of the Conservatives and chief of the Labour opposition Martin Rooney additionally standing.
They're joined by former Labour member Hazel Sorrell, who misplaced her seat in 2017, and Drew MacEoghainn of the Neighborhood Celebration.
Within the Kilpatrick ward, SNP veteran Jim Finn is to step down - with Gordon and Marina Scanlon named because the celebration’s candidates.
They be part of long-serving Labour Douglas McAllister and Lawrence O’Neill on the poll.
In Clydebank’s two wards there have been adjustments too.
In Clydebank Central Bailie Denis Agnew shouldn't be in search of re-election, becoming a member of Labour’s John Mooney and the SNP’s Jim Brown in leaving the council this 12 months.
Diane Docherty, sister of West Dunbartonshire MP Martin Docherty-Hughes, will stand nevertheless.
In Clydebank Waterfront Marie McNair is stepping down, following her election as a member of the Scottish Parliament final Could.
She joins Provost William Hendrie (SNP) and Labour’s Gail Casey in stepping down, with Casey’s Labour colleague Daniel Lennie the one at the moment elected member for the ward in search of re-election.
Residents in West Dunbartonshire have till 11.59pm on Thursday, April 14 to register to vote within the upcoming election - with registration open at gov.uk/register-to-vote.