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Mark Strong (Green) won the Queen’s Park by-election held on 24 September with 1,139 votes and a majority of 337 over Labour. The five candidate profiles and their pre-election statements remain available as a dated archive. See the full result and sources →
Our coverage follows the four WATCH areas: Adur District Council, West Sussex County Council, East Worthing & Shoreham’s MP and the Sussex mayor. The dedicated MP activity and value-for-money pages separately cover all 17 Sussex constituencies; the four-area navigation remains the original local WATCH scope.
Completed 24 September 2026: Mark Strong (Green) elected.
WATCH Sussex Election Watch records the full result and preserves all five candidate profiles, the questionnaire audit trail and the 17 September hustings evidence as a pre-election record.
Open Queen's Park Election Watch →No forthcoming district by-election identified.
The official notices page lists completed May 2026 district elections and a July parish by-election. Those past candidates are not presented as currently standing here.
Check the council’s current notices ↗No forthcoming county by-election identified.
We checked the election pages covering all seven West Sussex district and borough areas, including the shared Adur and Worthing service.
See the authority-by-authority checks ↓No forthcoming parliamentary by-election identified.
Local election notices did not identify a new poll. The 2024 general election result is historical information, not a current candidate list.
Official local election notices ↗Six announced or previously announced candidates found.
Expected May 2028; exact polling date awaiting official confirmation. Read each profile’s status before treating an earlier announcement as a current candidacy.
Meet the mayoral candidates →Alphabetical by surname. These profiles record public announcements and published positions; they do not confirm the eventual ballot.
Labour and Co-operative
Selected in 2025; 2028 reconfirmation not located
Conservative
Selected in 2025; official nomination not confirmed
Liberal Democrat
Selected in 2025; official nomination not confirmed
Reform UK
Previously announced; current campaign status unconfirmed
Green Party
Campaign explicitly refers to 2028; official nomination not confirmed
Independent
Stood down / withdrawn — 4 September 2026
Checked 1 September 2026. A missing notice on these pages is not proof that no vacancy exists. Profiles will need updating when new notices or nomination lists are published.
Within each election, candidates will receive the same questions, word limits and response deadline. Their answers will be labelled as candidate statements.
All candidates in a covered election will be eligible for the same profile format, photo size and answer limits. Profiles will be ordered by surname. WATCH Sussex will not rank or endorse candidates in this section.
A missing answer will be described accurately: not yet requested, awaiting a reply, no reply by the stated deadline, or declined. Silence will not be presented as a policy position.
Before nominations are confirmed, a profile may describe a sourced announcement or party selection. Once available, we will check the returning officer’s published statement of persons nominated and link to it.
Missing photographs will be labelled “Photograph not yet available”. Candidate statements and independently checked facts will be kept distinct. Corrections and substantive changes will be dated.
About official nomination statements ↗Send your public campaign information, relevant source links and a photograph you have permission to share to watchsussex@proton.me. Please identify the election and seat. Submissions are checked before publication.
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Section established and researched 1 September 2026. Six mayoral profiles available; nominations and questionnaire answers remain outstanding.
