POLITICAL?parties fill the ballot papers of all wards in the West?Devon area at the forthcoming county council elections — not one Independent is among those standing.

Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Greens and UK?Independence Party candidates line-up to do electoral battle in two of the area's four wards:?Tavistock and Yelverton Rural.

In Okehampton Rural, sitting councillor Tory Christine Marsh is not seeking re-election.

The full list of candidates is as follows (an asterisk denotes the sitting member):

Hatherleigh and Chagford —

William Douglas-Mann Green

Alan Gross UKIP

James McInnes* Conservative

Irene Wareing Labour

Okehampton Rural —

Kevin Ball Conservative

Christopher Bones Liberal Democrat

Terry Cummings Labour

Daniel Pledger UKIP

Tavistock —

Moira Brown Labour

Alison Clish-Green Liberal Democrat

Judy Maciejowska Green

George Mudge UKIP

Debo Sellis* Conservative

Yelverton Rural —

Gail Bones Liberal Democrat

Samantha Loveridge Labour

Andrew Mudge UKIP

Lynton Jon North Green

Philip Sanders* Conservative

l In the Torridge District Council area, candidates are:

Holsworthy Rural —

Keith Funnell Green

Viv?Gale Labour

Penny Mills UKIP

Barry Parsons* Conservative

Sandra Willetts Independent

Torrington Rural —

Andy Boyd* Conservative

James Conabere UKIP

Adrian Freeland Liberal Democrat

Cathrine Simmons Green

Gillian Tesh Labour

Candidates in the elections to Cornwall Council are:

Callington —

Andrew Long* Mebyon Kernow

Muriel Merrett-Jones Liberal Democrat

Sally Nicholson Conservative

Dave Williams UKIP

Gunnislake and Calstock —

Russell Bartlett* Conservative

Martin?Emery Liberal Democrat

Sam Gardner UKIP

Dorothy Kirk Labour

St Dominick, Harrowbarrow &?Kelly Bray

Maria Coakley Mebyon?Kernow

Jim Flashman* Conservative

Phillip Harriman Independent

Dave Lawson UKIP

Charles Merrett Jones Liberal Democrat

Stoke Climsland —

Neil Burden* Independent

Wayne Gostling Liberal Democrat

John Phillips Conservative

Antonia Willis UKIP

l Polling day is Thursday, May 2.