The process to fill an East Riding Council seat in Bridlington left vacant after the recent death of a councillor has begun with a call for election requests.
A by election will be triggered in Bridlington North if East Riding Council receives two written requests from voters in the ward, either by petition or in writing.
The process is largely a formality as Labour, Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats at the least will call for one to take place.
The notice of vacancy for the ward follows the death of Bridlington North’s Cllr Chad Chadwick at the age of 79 earlier this month.
The Conservative councillor, first elected in 1991, is understood to have died of liver cancer shortly before his 80th birthday.
No date has yet been set for the prospective by election and LDRS understands one before the end of June is unlikely.
Cllr Chadwick last stood for election in East Riding Council’s all out polls in May 2019.
He came third in the poll which saw a slate of three Conservative councillors elected, with Cllr Chadwick getting 1,929 votes, 27.8 per cent of the total ballots cast.
Fellow Conservatives Cllr Chris Matthews, current Environment and Climate Change portfolio holder, and Cllr Richard Harrap came first and second with 30.3 per cent and 29.6 per cent respectively.
Labour’s Jan Davis came fourth with 855 votes, 12.3 per cent while the turnout was 29 per cent.
But a by election had to be called in the following July after Cllr Harrap died.
That vote saw Liberal Democrat incumbent Cllr Mike Heslop-Mullens elected with 1,308 votes, 42.7 per cent with a turnout of 27 per cent.
Conservative Martin Burnhill came second with 815 votes, 26.6 per cent, Paul Walker of the Yorkshire Party third with 349, 11.4 per cent.
UKIP’s Gary Shores came fourth with 196 votes, 6.4 per cent and Labour’s Mike Dixon fifth, 135, 4.4 per cent.
East Riding Council leader Cllr Jonathan Owen said of Cllr Chadwick that he carried out his role as a ward member for Bridlington North brilliantly following his death.
Cllr Owen said:
“We’ll really miss him because he’s done so much over the years, his death is just really sad.
“He was one of the features of the council, he’d been there for such a long time and what I remember is just the accumulation of great things he said and his contribution to the East Riding and to politics.”
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