By Lucy Morgan Audience and Content Editor
Former Isle of Wight Council Leader and Our Island leader Jonathan Bacon is back in County Hall. Former Isle of Wight Council Leader Jonathan Bacon is back in County Hall, after winning Brading and St Helens. Despite opposition from Labour’s Alexander Buggie, Liberal Democrat John Graney and the incumbent Conservative Brian Tyndall, he has secured a seat for Our Island. Yesterday, voters cast their ballots in town and parish councils and for the Police and Crime Commissioner and the results of those will be known on Saturday and Monday, respectively. Overall for the Isle of Wight Council election, turnout was slightly down on 2017, at just over 36 per cent.
Isle of Wight Council election There is a two-horse race for the seat on the Isle of Wight Council. The Isle of Wight Council ward previously covered Brading, St Helens and Bembridge, and was the Island s only ward with two representatives. Incumbent councillor, independent Michael Murwill, is stepping down after a tenure which saw him absent for a while through ill health. The other, Conservative Brian Tyndall, is standing in the new ward of Brading and St Helens. It means the new Bembridge ward is being fought by Conservative Joe Robertson and Our Island representative Alasdair Steane.
Left, Joe Robertson, right, Alasdair Steane.