Because you elected us Selsey has...
Because you elected us Selsey has...
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Welcome to this week’s blog - as always, thanks for having a read.
We are still very grateful that Selsey voted to #keepdonna as its County Councillor just over a week ago. Last weekend she was in high demand as the final result left 34 Reform / Conservative Councillors vs 35 Liberal Democrat / Green / Labour ones. The latter grouping is the larger so is most likely to form an administration but either way, Donna is currently the only nominee for Chair. You may want to watch the beginning of the live stream on May 22nd, 2026 to see if she gets elected.
This is the County results map: -
Last weekend Ali and I were number crunching. Ali worked out that 48 of the 70 West Sussex Councillors are new. I worked out Donna’s campaign expenses and analysed data I collected at the count. My tally of the 22% of ballots I caught a glimpse of during the initial verification stage...
suggested we had 9% more votes than the runner-up. I only tallied Reform and ourselves. The final result was 8% more. We think the close result was due to the larger number of candidates compared to the previous West Sussex elections in 2021 when Donna got 60% to the other candidates 40%. If you redistribute the votes of the lowest three candidates this time, you get a similar outcome.
Last Wednesday, Donna and Val had Chichester District Council’s Planning Committee which included an application from Boxgrove and consideration of whether to approve the responses to the questions for submission in response to the government consultation on permitted development rights for Onshore Wind Turbines. In the evening the team had Selsey Town Council’s Annual Meeting at which Andrew was reappointed Chair and Steve took over from Donna as Vice Chair. Appointments were also made to committees and outside bodies too.
Next week Val, Steve, Donna and I have Chichester District Council’s Annual meeting on Tuesday before, as mentioned above, Donna has Full West Sussex County Council on Friday.
You can watch CDC meetings here and watch WSCC meetings here.
When I was growing up, some people used the taunt ‘fathead’ to those they thought were a little slow on the uptake. There may be an element of truth in that because if your brain feels a little foggy, it could be due to this:
The Government has launched its further consultation on options for local government reorganisation which runs until June 15th, 2026:
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As always, from the whole Team, stay safe.
Tim
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