Results for contested City, Town and Parish Councils in the Mendip area have been published.

For Frome it was good news for the Independents in the one contested ward of Berkely Down :

Electors were able to vote for candidates in 16 parishes and wards across the district at the elections on 5 May:

• Batcombe
• Berkley
• Croscombe
• Frome - Berkley Down
• Glastonbury – St Benedict's
• Glastonbury – St Edmund's
• Glastonbury – St John's
• Glastonbury – St Mary's
• Kilmersdon
• Meare
• Nunney
• Pilton
• Wells – Central
• Wells – St Cuthbert's
• Wells – St Thomas'
• Witham Friary

The other wards were uncontested in Frome so the following councillors take the seats :

Frome College Ward : Elected Tracey Ashford, Sara Butler, Andrew Jones

Frome Highpoint: Andy Wrintmore

Frome Innox : Stephen Tanner

Frome Keyford Ward: Philip Campagna, Nicholas Dove, Lisa Millard

Frome Market Ward: Mark Dorrington, Henry Usher

Frome Oakfield : Fiona Barrows, Carla Collenette

Frome Park Ward : Polly Lamb, Maxwell Wide

The full results are available to view on the council website here: www.mendip.gov.uk/parishelections2022.

 The statements of persons nominated for election at uncontested Towns and Parishes in Mendip can be found here.

Councillors representing their communities on City, Town and Parish councils will serve a five-year term, bringing these elections into line with county elections going forward.

The full list of people elected for the 110 County Council seats - two in each of the 55 divisions - can be found on the Somerset County Council website.

For their first year, the elected councillors will take responsibility for all current County Council services and oversee the local government reorganisation to establish a single unitary council on 1 April 2023. 

From 1 April 2023, the 110 councillors of the unitary council will be responsible for all services that are currently delivered by the county and four district councils, ranging from adults and children's social care to highways and housing, and from libraries to planning and licensing. 

District councils will remain until 31 March 2023, and the councillors serving on them will continue in their roles until that date.