Nine candidates nominated for general election

Nine candidates have are set to contest an election in November.

The candidates have been nominated to stand in the Alderney general election on 21 November to fill five of 10 member seats.

Candidates include: Haydn Bateman, Jeannie Cameron, Lin Maurice, Steve Roberts, Derwent Smithurst, Heather Syer, Ian Taylor, William Walden and Sarah Woodnutt.

Each candidate was nominated by a proposer and seconder whose names were on the island's electoral roll. The Island Hall and its grounds would house the polling station for the election from 9:30 GMT to 18.30, officials said.

Those eligible to vote would have up to five votes each, the States of Alderney said, adding it wanted to remind people that they did not have to use all their votes and to only vote for those they wanted to represent them.

Officials said the general election would be followed by a Guernsey representative election, a plebiscite poll, on 12 December.

The second poll, which takes place every two years, would determine a preference as to which two members of Alderney's the States should represent the island in Guernsey's States of Deliberation, they said.

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