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By-Election May 2024 Candidates

Loughborough East - Daisy Taylor

Daisy Taylor is representing the Loughborough Green Party for Loughborough East in the Charnwood Borough Council By-Election on May 2nd 2024. 

A lifelong resident of Loughborough, Daisy has always been working to effect positive change. From her early days as a sports representative at Loughborough College and sitting on the AU Executive at Loughborough University to her time as vice chairperson at a local charity for addiction and homelessness. She has also worked as a volunteer, delivering sports coaching sessions to young people within Charnwood, assisting local communities as far afield as South Africa and co-leading a team in Ghana to deliver education sessions to women and girls in remote locations about women's health and rights. Daisy has also previously undertaken EU funded training in delivering human rights education in both Poland and Italy as well as working closer to home with groups of international participants here in Loughborough. 

Being neurodivergent and a member of the LGBTQIA+ community Daisy knows how important it is for everyone to feel represented and have a voice, currently sitting as the EEDI officer for Loughborough Green Party, she wishes to utilise her experience for the betterment of our local community making it work for each and every one of us as well pushing for sustainability to be at the forefront of our decision making, ensuring a better future for Loughborough East, the rest of Charnwood and beyond. 

Prospective Parliamentary Candidates 2024

Loughborough - Hans Zollinger

Loughborough Green Party has chosen its candidate for the Loughborough constituency in the next General election.

Hans Zollinger, aged 50 and a businessman, was selected by local members recently. Hans is greatly honoured to be representing the Green Party and advocating progressive policies based upon a green industrial policy, modernising and insulating homes for energy efficiency, and social policies that support a modern and fairer working life including the greater distribution of opportunities. 

Hans moved to the East Midlands from Cornwall in 2013 with his wife Sarah. They have 2 children, aged 11 and 9 years. Hans has a good knowledge of and good connections to Loughborough and the surrounding area through his wife’s family and his architectural design and planning business. He says "Loughborough and its surrounding towns and villages face big challenges, but I see that they have great potential. I want to help build a fairer society where everybody feels empowered, has an equal chance to strive and thrive, and where public services are properly funded”.

North West Leicestershire - Carl Benfield

Carl and his family moved to Ashby following 16 years’ service in the Royal Engineers, leaving as a Major in 2007.
After 11 years working in renewable energy, Carl is now a business consultant specialising in strategic decision making for small and medium-sized enterprises.
Carl and his wife Rebecca have four sons aged 9 to 22. He is a town councillor for Ashby and has been involved with various environmental and community partner organisations. 

"We need to take action on curbing climate change now, and promises for plans in the distant future are simply not good enough," says Carl. "The Green party are committed to a strong, sustainable economy, where everyone has access to good quality jobs and where endless growth gives way to efficiency and productivity"

Local Elections 2025

As soon as we have selected candidates for the 2025 Local Elections, we will add them here. Please come back to this page closer to the election.

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