2023 result
LABOUR HOLDS
2022 result
Polling stations
- Scout & Guide Joint HQ, 163 Northcourt Avenue, Reading
- St Barnabas Church Hall, Elm Road, Reading
- South Reading Community Hub, 252 Northumberland Avenue, Reading
- Whitley Park Primary and Nursery School, Brixham Road, Reading
The candidates
Mark Cole, Lib Dem
Dr Mark Cole is a teacher of Sociology at a Grammar school in Burnham and an experienced examiner. His research interests have focused on the participation of young people in politics, and he is keen to widen participation in the political process. He is married with three teenage children.
James Mugo, Conservatives
Awaiting information from candidate.
Brent Smith, Green
Brent Smith has lived in Reading for over 30 years. He works with computers. In his spare time, he enjoys cycling. If elected, he will work for a proper segregated cycle network.
Green councillors and candidates are working for a fairer, greener, more affordable town.
Greens did so well at the council elections last year that we overtook the Conservatives becoming the second largest party on Reading’s Labour-run council (32 Labour councillors, 7 Green, 6 Conservative and 3 Lib Dem). Labour have a very large majority of councillors but it is very close between Greens and Conservatives for second place.
Vote Green at the council elections on Thursday 4 May for hard work year-round but also to keep the Green Party ahead of the Conservatives as the main opposition party on Reading Council.
Get involved with the campaign. We will only win with your help.
Paul Woodward, Labour
Paul was first elected as a Church Ward Councillor in 2011, when the ward was Conservative controlled. Since then he has worked to make Church the fully Labour ward it is today. Paul was Mayor in 2019 and is the Chair of the Council’s Licensing Committee.
