Ward profile: Queen's Park

Candidates (Three seats)

Philip Brownlie (Conservative) - @philipbrownlie

Chris Shanks (Conservative)

Daisy Shirley (Conservative) - @DCTShirley

*Geoffrey Bowden (Green) - @TheSussexSquare

*Stephanie Powell (Green) - @QueensParkGreen

Richard Stanton (Green)

Karen Barford (Labour) - @karenbarford

Daniel Chapman (Labour) - @Chapman_Dan

Adrian Morris (Labour) - @Adrian_Labour

Liz Robinson (Liberal Democrats)

Brian Stone (Liberal Democrats)

Colin Piper (Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition)

Despite the travails of the minority Green administration, the two sitting Green councillors in Queen's Park - both popular in the ward - have acquitted themselves well over the last four years. In particular, Geoffrey Bowden has been responsible for some real progress, thanks to his work as chair of economic development and culture. To lose him from the council would be a blow to the whole city.

Rather distastefully, the Labour Party machine has tried to make capital out of comments made 30 years ago by Richard Stanton, the third Green candidate, about the Grand Hotel bombing.

Remarkably, when Mel Davis, chair of Labour's City Party, raised her head above ground to attack Mr Stanton's candidature, reports of her comments made only a fleeting reference to the fact that Mr Stanton was a Labour Party member at the time of his comments.

For Labour, Karen Barford and Dan Chapman are decent candidates who will make a good fist of their campaign. By contrast, the third Labour candidate is Adrian Morris. When he put his name forward in St Peter's North Laine in 2011, this idiosyncratic figure let down his party colleagues by withdrawing with only 51 days to the election - but not before he had opposed plans for the new skatepark (now one of the centrepieces of the magnificent regeneration of The Level).

Although the Conservatives trail badly in third place, it is interesting to note that one of the candidates is Philip Brownlie, who works in the office of Simon Kirby, the Conservative MP for Brighton Kemptown.

2011 election results

Candidates                                                Votes (%)

Geoffrey Bowden (Green - elected) 2,227 (15%)

Stephanie Powell (Green - elected) 2,221 (15%)

Ben Duncan (Green - elected ) 2,147 (14%)

Daniel Anthony Chapman (Labour) 1,970 (13%)

Christopher Martyn Cooke (Labour) 1,867 (12%)

Tom French (Labour) 1,822 (12%)

Philip Brownlie (Conservative) 766 (5%)

Anne Glow (Conservative) 738 (5%)

Gail Woodcock (Conservative) 653 (4%)

Elizabeth Mary O'Keefe Robinson (Liberal Democrats)    237 (2%)

Jacob Frohawk-McLucas (Liberal Democrats) 189 (1%)

Brian Ralfe  (Independent) 155 (1%)

Mohammed Asaduzzaman (Independent) 140 (1%)

Factfile (Source: Census 2011)

Households: 7,982

Density (people per hectare): 136

Women: 47% (7,070)

Men: 53% (7,954)

Average age: 39

Higher managerial occupations: 10.2% (1,350)

Unemployed: 8.6% (726)

White: 87.6% (13,162)

Black/African/Caribbean/Black British: 1.7% (259)

Asian/Asian British: 5.2% (778)

Number who cannot speak English well: 200

Dependent children in household (% of all households): 15.2%

Christians: 36%

No religion: 47%

Number of same-sex civil partnerships: 282

Divorced: 11%

Living as co-habiting couple: 16.4%

Married: 19.7%

One family - all aged 65 and over: 2.7%

Lone parent - with dependent children: 6%

No adults in employment, with dependent children: 3.1%

Long-term unemployed: 1.7%

Activities limited a lot by poor health: 11.2%

No cars or vans in household: 57%

No qualifications: 18.2%

Full-time students aged 18 and over: 12.6%

One person in household with long-term health problem/disability - with dependent children: 2.7%