Voters head to the polls in Halton
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VOTERS across Runcorn, Widnes and Hale Village will head to the polls today for the General Election. Five candidates are standing in the Halton parliamentary constituency.
Residents who are registered to vote will head to polling stations across borough between 7am and 10pm.
The count will then take place overnight at the Select Security Stadium in Widnes.
Derek Twigg – who has held the Halton constituency since first being elected in 1997 – will be standing once more for Labour and is bidding to retain the seat for the sixth successive election.
Matthew Lloyd is the Conservative candidate for the constituency and Ryan Bate is standing for the Liberal Democrats.
Glyn Redican has been nominated as UKIP’s candidate while Victor Turton is contesting the election as an Independent.
All five men stood for their respective par- ● ● ties in the 2015 General Election.
On that occasion, Mr Twigg stormed to victory with 28,292 votes, the largest number since he was first elected in 1997.
Mr Lloyd came second with 8,007 votes while Mr Redican attracted 6,333 votes to finish third in the pool.
Mr Bate narrowly edged out the Green Party’s David Melvin with 1,097 votes to 1,017 while Independent candidate Mr Turton attracted 277 votes.
The Greens have not put forward a candidate in the Halton constituency for this year’s vote. ●