A BY-ELECTION is being held on Thursday June 21 to fill a vacant seat in the Alcombe ward of West Somerset Council.
The vacancy results from the resignation of Adrian Behan, who was elected to one of two seats in the ward in May 2015.
He is the second of the council’s four UKIP candidates to resign this year – Tom Hall quit the Minehead North ward in January and was succeeded by Liberal Democrat Benet Allen, who won a by-election in February.
The Lib Dems is the only party so far to announce its candidate for the Alcombe seat, Nicole Hawkins.
Nominations for the by-election closed on Thursday and a list of all the candidates will be published next week.
Whoever wins will hold the seat for less than a year, as elections for the new Somerset West and Taunton District Council are set for early May next year.