By Aileen Maclennan
Communities across Argyll and Bute, which includes Helensburgh and the Lochside up past Arrochar, will join the rest of the country in electing their local councillors in May this year. If you’re passionate about your community and want to make a difference to local life, have you considered standing for election to represent your local community on Argyll and Bute Council?
Becoming a councillor is challenging but highly rewarding, offering opportunities to represent the people who live in your local area as well as involvement in decisions about issues of local and national significance.
If you want to find out more about what is involved in becoming a councillor in Argyll and Bute, and the election process, you can get more information on the council’s dedicated Standing for Election web page. You can download a guide to becoming an Argyll and Bute councillor as well as other resources for people considering standing for election.
The web page will be updated regularly with new information that become available and you will also be able to access candidate packs and other details when the nomination process opens later this year.
Find out more at Standing for election in Argyll and Bute (argyll-bute.gov.uk) or contact Argyll and Bute Council’s Elections Team on 01546 603264 if you need information in another format.
Helensburgh – How would you like to stand for election to the local council?
Great idea to encourage individuals to consider standing as independent councillors.
This would almost certainly go quite a way to redress the appalling situation where far to many councils have serving councillors who are party hacks rather than community minded individuals.
Indeed, there used to be a tradition of non party aligned independents in the west coast of Scotland. People who want to contribute rather than those put forward by partisan political parties.