Devon County Council elections > the parties, the candidates

The Herald gave us a nice overview of the parties and candidates last week:
Futures Forum: Devon County Council elections > the candidates

On-line, however, it's more difficult to find very much...

The Lib Dems hope to recapture the County:

What would be a good night for the Liberal Democrats in the 2017 local elections?
4 April 2017
Tim Farron's party have a favourable map and scope for gains. 

The other big prizes for them are the county councils: Cambridgeshire, Devon, Gloucestershire, Norfolk, Oxfordshire and Somerset are the particularly promising areas. Look, too, to the seats they lost in 2015. Gains, both in council seats there and in the popular vote, are the real gold dust.

What would be a good night for the Liberal Democrats in the 2017 local elections?

But there has been a groundswell for Independents of late:

We need to talk about Devon
MARTIN SHAW 19 September 2016
By examining the local politics of the nation's second-largest county, we can see just how tight a grip the Conservatives have on power.

A new campaign to influence the County Council elections, Devon United, is perhaps the first - certainly the most ambitious - initiative to be actually launched through social media. Its first meeting in October will be addressed by Paul Hilder, co-founder of OpenDemocracy.net and CrowdPac and former global campaigns director for Avaaz and Change.org.

All three EDA candidates for Devon County Council have You Tube links | East Devon Watch

And that brings us to the East Devon Alliance:
Marianne Rixson, Independent East Devon Alliance Candidate for Sidmouth - YouTube

Meanwhile, the Conservatives are defending their slim majority:
www.devonconservative.org.uk
Sidmouth husting cancelled … so what would we have liked to see debated? | East Devon Watch
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