{"id":608,"date":"2013-03-08T10:50:12","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T10:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/?post_type=tb_guides&#038;p=608"},"modified":"2020-12-17T13:54:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T13:54:23","slug":"part-3-political-parties","status":"publish","type":"tb_guides","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/guide\/how-to-stand-for-election-information-for-candidates\/part-3-political-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are thinking of standing as a candidate for a particular political party then you should first get in touch with that party\u2019s local organisation.<\/p>\n<p>Many parties also have a national website, through which you can get information about how they operate in your area. The parties currently represented on the County Council are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservatives.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Conservative Party<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.labour.org.uk\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Labour Party<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.libdems.org.uk\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Liberal Democrats<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukip.org\" rel=\"noopener\">UK Independence Party<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenparty.org.uk\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Party<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Links to many other political parties are available on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/about\/mps-and-lords\/members\/parties\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Parliament <\/a>webpages.<\/p>\n<p>There is also useful information for\u00a0candidates, agents and political parties on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electoralcommission.org.uk\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Electoral Commission <\/a>website.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":748,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tb_guide":[1315],"class_list":["post-608","tb_guides","type-tb_guides","status-publish","hentry","tb_guide-how-to-stand-for-election-information-for-candidates"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/guides\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/guides"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tb_guides"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/748"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/guides\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7484,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/guides\/608\/revisions\/7484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tb_guide","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tb_guide?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}