How many people are standing in the Crawley elections 2021?
Forty-eight candidates will be hoping for good luck on May 6 when Crawley goes to the polls to fill 14 seats on the borough council.
One-third of the 36 seats will be up for election along with those of Francis Guidera (Con, Tilgate), who resigned in March, and Geraint Thomas (Lab, Ifield), who died in November 2019.
Crawley s local elections take place on Thursday, May 6
Due to the pandemic, no by-election was able to be held for control of Mr Thomas’ seat before now.
The council has been in no overall control since former Labour councillors Karen Sudan and Rory Fiveash quit the Party to become Independents.
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Mayor s chain of office
The mayor currently receives £11,239, compared to £4,000 in Chichester, just over £1,000 in Haywards Heath and £6,500 in Worthing.
Up in Reigate, though, the allowance stands at just over £13,000.
Unless Crawley Borough Council comes up with a reason for keeping it as it is, the panel has recommended it be reduced – and left it up to the governance committee to decide what the allowance should be.
The committee met on Tuesday (January 26) and agreed it would not be appropriate for them to ‘pluck a figure out of thin air’, instead sending the report back to the panel for their views.