{"id":13522,"date":"2015-12-11T14:33:56","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T14:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/communities-new\/?page_id=13522"},"modified":"2025-08-21T12:25:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T11:25:21","slug":"how-to-become-a-county-councillor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/communities\/how-do-i\/getting-my-voice-heard\/how-to-become-a-county-councillor\/","title":{"rendered":"How to become a county councillor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The decisions made by councillors affect residents\u2019 quality of life in countless ways, from education, heath and wellbeing and roads to supporting local businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local people become councillors for many different reasons, but mainly because they feel strongly about the area in which they live and they want to make a difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They may already work with local organisations and residents\u2019 groups with the sole aim of improving their community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/guide\/how-to-become-a-county-councillor\/part-1-you-can-be-a-councillor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democracy in Devon<\/a> provides advice and guide to becoming a county councillor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decisions made by councillors affect residents\u2019 quality of life in countless ways, from education, heath and wellbeing and roads&hellip;\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/communities\/how-do-i\/getting-my-voice-heard\/how-to-become-a-county-councillor\/\" aria-label=\"Read more - How to become a county councillor\"><span>Read more &gt;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":13517,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-sidebar.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-13522","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-19 05:40:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20080,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13522\/revisions\/20080"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/communities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}