{"id":788772,"date":"2026-02-25T20:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/788772\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T20:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:37:18","slug":"former-green-councillor-to-stand-in-farnley-wortley-labour-also-confirms-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/788772\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Green councillor to stand in Farnley &#038; Wortley &#8211; Labour also confirms candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former Farnley &amp; Wortley Green Party councillor has been selected as a candidate in Farnley &amp; Wortley ward \u2013 the same week Labour also announced its candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Farnley &amp; Wortley Green Party have selected Ann\u00a0Blackburn\u00a0as their candidate for the local council elections in May. <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"286\" height=\"361\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ann-blackburn-farnley-and-wortley.jpg\" alt=\"Ann blackburn farnley and wortley\" class=\"wp-image-25432\"  \/>Ann Blackburn.<\/p>\n<p>Ann is married to David\u00a0Blackburn\u00a0\u2013 who earlier this mont<a href=\"https:\/\/westleedsdispatch.com\/green-party-councillor-david-blackburn-to-retire-at-election\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">h announced he was retiring<\/a> due to ill health \u2013 and has a grown up son and step-daughter.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>She has lived in the Farnley &amp; Wortley area for 43 years and in Leeds all her life.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>A Green Party spokesperson said: \u201cAnn is an experienced councillor having previously represented the area as a Green Party councillor on Leeds City Council for 20 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ann last represented Farnley &amp; Wortley in 2022, when she lost her seat to Labour\u2019s Mark Sewards, who later went on to be the MP for Leeds South West and Morley.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Farnley-and-Wortley-Group-Photo-1-900x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-198914\"  \/>Labour team: From left: Mark Sewards MP, Cllr Kate Haigh, Charlotte Hill and Cllr Adrian McCluskey.<\/p>\n<p>The Labour Party has this week announced Charlotte Hill as its candidate for Farnley<br \/>and Wortley in the upcoming local elections.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte says she sims to focus on improving local services, standing up for working people, and ensuring Farnley and Wortley gets the representation it deserves at Leeds City Council. <\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cI want to be a councillor who listens, works hard, and delivers real change. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy priorities are: championing accessible local services, supporting measures that strengthen neighbourhoods and community wellbeing, working closely with residents to ensure their voices shape local decisions, and protecting and improving ourenvironment and shared spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mark Sewards MP welcomed the selection. He said:  \u201cI\u2019ve known Charlotte for more than 20 years, we even went to school together. I know how committed she is to working for local residents. She\u2019s a tireless campaigner and will make a magnificent councillor for our home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Peter Allison announced earlier this year that he would be standing in Farnley &amp; Wortley as an independent candidate.<\/p>\n<p>All 33 council wards in Leeds will be contested at the elections.<\/p>\n<p>WLD\u00a0will be approaching candidates from all seven wards in our patch for 300-word profiles ahead of the Leeds City Council elections. These will be published a fortnight before the elections on 7 May.<\/p>\n<p>Follow WLD\u2019s coverage of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/westleedsdispatch.com\/tag\/leeds-local-elections-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 local elections here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Farnley &amp; Wortley Green Party councillor has been selected as a candidate in Farnley &amp; Wortley&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,229542,229543,393,215174,4884,1860,212529,16,15,207326],"class_list":["post-788772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-leeds","tag-britain","tag-charlotte-hill","tag-cllr-ann-blackburn","tag-england","tag-farnley","tag-great-britain","tag-leeds","tag-leeds-local-elections-2026","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wortley"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116133196707556933","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}