Animal Welfare Party To Stand Four Candidates in 2024 General Election

Animal Welfare Party To Stand Four Candidates in 2024 General Election
Post Date June 7, 2024
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Animal Welfare Party will stand four candidates in London, Hampshire and Dorset in the July 4th General Election.
AWP Leader, Vanessa Hudson will stand in the constituency of Bethnal Green and Stepney in London for the second time. Professor Andrew Knight will also stand for a second time in the constituency of New Forest East in Hampshire. Gavin Ridley will stand in the constituency of New Forest West in Hampshire for the first time and Sasha Jolliffe will stand in the constituency of Christchurch in Dorset …

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AWP’s Femy Amin to stand in Mayor of London Election

AWP’s Femy Amin to stand in Mayor of London Election
Post Date March 28, 2024
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Femy Amin will stand as Animal Welfare Party’s candidate for the Mayor of London election while a party list of 7 candidates, a record for AWP, will contest the London-wide Assembly Election on 2nd May.

Amin, a healthcare professional, came to the UK as a teenage Afghan refugee and describes herself as long being motivated to create a fairer, more compassionate society. She first stood for election for AWP in 2019, in the constituency of Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner before standing again in the 2021 London-wide …

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Animal Welfare Party Gains Representative on Hexham Town Council, Northumberland

Animal Welfare Party Gains Representative on Hexham Town Council, Northumberland
Post Date January 20, 2024
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Hexham, Northumberland: Animal Welfare Party has gained a representative on Hexham Town Council, the second in the party’s history, after sitting Town Councillor, Lee Williscroft-Ferris switched from being independent to representing AWP

On 20th January, Lee Williscroft-Ferris, a serving councillor on Hexham Town Council in Northumberland made a small piece of history when he announced his decision to switch from being independent to Animal Welfare Party, becoming the second representative in the party’s history, the first in Northumberland and the North East. 

Williscroft-Ferris, who has served on …

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AWP Celebrates 2021 Local Election Results

AWP Celebrates 2021 Local Election Results
Post Date May 9, 2021
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Animal Welfare Party is celebrating some of its best results to date in the London Mayoral and Assembly Elections and in Lothian Region in the Scottish Parliament Elections. 

In the London Mayoral Election, AWP’s Vanessa Hudson received 16,826 first preference votes and 63,619 second preference votes.

In the London-wide Assembly election, AWP stood a party list of six candidates and received 44,667 votes from across the capital (1.7% of the vote) – ranking seventh overall and gaining almost 19,000 more votes than the party received in this …

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