Ward profile: Regency

Candidates (Two seats)

Jo Jameson (Conservative) - @Jameson4Regency

Kevin Jameson (Conservative) - @Jameson4Regency

Tom Druitt (Green) - @tomdruitt

**Alex Phillips (Green) - @alex4regency

Jonathan Skinner (Labour) - @RegencyLabour

Catherine Wilson (Labour) - @RegencyLabour

Ed Huxley (Left Unity)

Trevor Freeman (Liberal Democrats) - @regencylibdems

Beth Johnson-Dawes (Liberal Democrats) - @regencylibdems

Poll watch

If the Green Party cannot hold onto both of its two seats in Regency, then they will be lucky to be anything other than an irrelevant rump in Brighton and Hove politics after May 7.

To give them their best chance, they have selected the party's new "golden couple" to take the place of the double Kitcat: Councillors Ania and Jason, both of whom are standing down.

Councillor Alex Phillips, with the left-wing passion associated with working-class politics on her native Merseyside, must be favourite to top the poll - even though she has shuffled across the border from her current neighbouring ward of Goldsmid.

Meanwhile, Tom Druitt - the new chair of Brighton and Hove Green Party - is hoping to become part of the second successive husband-and-wife duo in Regency. The founder of the Big Lemon bus company married Councillor Phillips last August.

The Kitcats secured majorities of about 1,000 in 2011 - and even the travails of the minority administration are unlikely to have undermined Green support sufficiently to enable Labour's two new candidates to turn the tables at their first attempt.

2011 election results

Candidate                                      Votes  (%)

Ania Kitcat (Green - elected) 1,696 (29%)

Jason Kitcat (Green - elected) 1,629 (27%)

James Edward Asser (Labour) 691 (12%)

Dan Wilson (Labour) 665 (11%)

Andrew Daniel Clifford Hancox (Conservative) 494 (8%)

Michael James MacFarlane (Conservative) 449 (8%)

Gareth Jones (Liberal Democrats) 166 (3%)

Larissa Rowe (Liberal Democrats) 155 (3%)

Factfile (Source: Census 2011)

Households: 5,730

Density (people per hectare): 167

Women: 46%

Men: 54% (5,424)

Average age: 36

Higher managerial occupations: 13.9% (1,288)

Unemployed: 6.5% (455)

White: 87.7% (8,734)

Black/African/Caribbean/Black British: 1.4% (143)

Asian/Asian British: 4.6% (463)

Number who cannot speak English well: 134

Dependent children in household (% of all households): 9.5%

Christians: 31%

No religion: 52%

Number of same-sex civil partnerships: 172

Divorced: 8%

Living as co-habiting couple: 21.6%

Married: 17.3%

One family - all aged 65 and over: 1.6%

Lone parent - with dependent children: 3%

Long-term unemployed: 1.2%

Activities limited a lot by poor health: 5.1%

No cars or vans in household: 64%

No qualifications: 6.9%

Full-time students aged 18 and over: 14.8%

No adults in employment - with dependent children: 1.1%

One person in household with long-term health problem/disability - with dependent children: 1%