Ward profile: Hollingdean and Stanmer

Candidates (Three seats)

Jonathan Ballard (Conservative)

David Lewis (Conservative)

Karen Miles (Conservative)

Jack Hazelgrove (Green)

Vivek Rajcoomar (Green)

David Walker (Green) - @David4BHCC

*Christina Summers (Independent) - @Cllr_Christina

Tracey Hill (Labour) - @TraceyMHill

Michael Inkpin-Leissner (Labour) - @mikeleissner

Caroline Penn (Labour) - @ThePennyDrops

Chris Hurley (Liberal Democrats)

Desmond Jones (UKIP)

Flo Lewis (UKIP)

Poll watch

One of the biggest shocks of the 2011 city council elections was the failure of two of the three Labour Party candidates to be elected in what had previously been regarded as a stronghold seat.

Jeane Lepper - a long-serving councillor and wife of David Lepper, the former Brighton Pavilion MP - scraped through as a well-organised Green campaign saw the party's surge in popularity spread out from the city centre, thanks in part to the increased studentification of a traditional working-class area.

In the last four years, a lot has changed: Christina Summers, expelled by the Greens after opposing gay marriage, is now an independent councillor and lacking an organised party network; Sven Rufus, a Green councillor who has made little impact, is standing down; and Ms Lepper is retiring.

It is no coincidence two of Labour's most determinedly-ambitious candidates managed to be selected by a city party over which they hold significant sway.

If Labour does not score a hat-trick of wins here, then they will have little chance of forming even a minority administration. It is likely to be an uphill struggle for the Green candidates: David Walker, a socialist; Jack Hazelgrove, a veteran former Labour councillor; and a woman who has still to be chosen.

Significantly, no other party has yet chosen their candidates.

2011 election results

Candidates                              Votes (%)

Sven Rufus (Green - elected) 1,753 (14%)

Christina Summers (Green - elected; now independent) 1,748 (14%)

Jeane Lepper (Labour - elected) 1,681 (13%)

Pat Hawkes (Labour) 1,557 (12%)

Luke Walter (Green) 1,523 (12%)

Christine Simpson (Labour) 1,511 (12%)

Rachael Emma Bates (Conservative) 767 (6%)

Patrick Lowe (Conservative) 761 (6%)

Rob Labs (Conservative) 732 (6%)

Nigel David Carter (UKIP) 166 (1%)

Oliver Richard Henry Eke (Liberal Democrats) 138 (1%)

Emma Claire Louise Harrop (Liberal Democrats) 127 (1%)

Tony Greenstein (Trade Union and Socialists Against Cuts) 126 (1%)

Phil Clarke (Trade Union and Socialists Against Cuts) 120 (1%)

Lillian Odette Harrop (Liberal Democrats) 105 (1%)

Dave Hill (Trade Union and Socialists Against Cuts) 89 (1%)

Factfile (Source: Census 2011)

Households: 5,290

Density (people per hectare): 53

Women: 51% (8,010)

Men: 49% (7,671)

Average age: 33

Higher managerial occupations: 5.4% (705)

Unemployed: 15.5% (1,114)

White: 85.2% (13,353)

Black/African/Caribbean/Black British: 2.6% (413)

Asian/Asian British: 6.7% (1,050)

Number who cannot speak English well: 158

Dependent children in household (% of all households): 31.3%

Christians: 40%

No religion: 45%

Number of same-sex civil partnerships: 57

Divorced: 8%

Living as co-habiting couple: 12.8%

Married: 25.4%

One family - all aged 65 and over: 4.7%

Lone parent - with dependent children: 10%

No adults in employment - with dependent children: 7.5%

Long-term unemployed: 1.4%

Activities limited a lot by poor health: 7.6%

Elections 2015

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