Hackney mayor by-election: List of candidates announced

The candidates for Hackney’s mayoral by-election have been announced.

The position recently became available after the much-publicised resignation of its former Labour occupant, Philip Glanville.

Statutory deputy mayor of Hackney Anntoinette Bramble has assumed temporary leadership of the council until a new mayor is elected.

The by-election will take place on November 9 and six people have put their names forward to run for the borough’s top job.

Those nominated to run to be mayor of Hackney are:

• Simon De Deney, Liberal Democrats
• Zoë Garbett, Green Party
• Peter Smorthit, Independent
• Simche Steinberger, The Conservative Party
• Annoesjka Valent, Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
• Caroline Rebecca Woodley, Labour Party

Mr Glanville, who was first elected as mayor in 2016, resigned in September after a photo emerged showing him at a Eurovision Party with former councillor Tom Dewey, who had been arrested over child abuse images.

In his resignation letter, Mr Glanville acknowledged he made “an error of judgement”, and reiterated his apology to “the people of Hackney, the council, and my colleagues”.

In August, Dewey was given a one-year suspended sentence after admitting possessing 1,850 indecent images of children.