Who’s on twitter?

The official list of candidates standing in the local elections to Oxford City Council was published on 4 April. The elections take place on Thursday 3 May. @HeadingtonNews has produced a list of the candidates standing in the six wards which fall within the Headington – Marston – Barton area, and I am grateful for the code from that page which has saved me a fair amount of typing!

My own list is slightly different. I shall be following the campaign on twitter as well as other channels and I thought it would be interesting to see how many of the candidates are themselves tweeters. I already had a dozen or so local councillors and candidates on my oxpolitics list, but starting with the OX3 wards I have searched and found more. Some, I have to say, are not very active – which says nothing at all about their merits as potential councillors. All wards have at least one candidate with a twitter account but the sole one in Quarry & Risinghurst is at present inactive.

So if you want to engage with your local candidates or just follow the campaign, here’s who to follow. I’ll try to make a complete list for the whole of Oxford but I don’t know how soon I’ll be able to do it. Meanwhile if you find any errors or omissions please let me know.