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🗳️ Good morning, Croydon! Today's the day. After months of hustings, headlines, and heated debate, Croydon goes to the polls. Polling stations are open 7am to 10pm. Don't forget your photo ID. Whatever happens tonight, this is your borough's moment. Make it count. ❤️
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🎵 Fairfield Halls - Croydon Symphonic Band, 53rd annual summer concert. Check fairfield.co.uk for dates
🎭 Stanley Arts - Mini Movers & Their Grown-up Groovers, Sunday 17 May, 11am. £6 per child
🎨 Click Clock Art Gallery - The Croydonist Turns Ten. Free. 5–29 May, Mon–Sat 9am
🤼 Fairfield Halls - LDN Wrestling June Showdown. Family-friendly. Tickets at fairfield.co.uk
🛍️ This Saturday
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📰 MORNING PULSE
🗳️ ELECTION DAY: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW
Croydon votes today for its Executive Mayor and 70 ward councillors across 28 wards. The mayoral race between Conservative incumbent Jason Perry and Labour's Rowenna Davis has been one of the tightest in the country, with polls showing fewer than 100 votes between them at various points.
Eight candidates are on the white ballot paper. You'll also receive a yellow ballot paper for your ward councillors. Polls open 7am to 10pm. Bring photo ID. Results are expected from Saturday 8 May, from 4pm.
🔵🔴 DAVIS TIPPED TO EDGE IT, BUT IT'S TOO CLOSE TO CALL
Inside Croydon's final pre-election analysis argues Labour's Rowenna Davis should be in front, but notes a subdued campaign where national issues dominated. Turnout will be decisive.
Source: Inside Croydon. Read the full analysis at insidecroydon.com
🌳 PERRY'S SECRET PARK PRIVATISATION PLAN
Mayor Perry's Conservative manifesto contains a plan to hand at least one of Croydon's public parks to a private operator, with Go Ape named as a potential partner. This story broke just before Election Day. Source: Inside Croydon
🏫 TRINITY SCHOOL GETS £40M EXPANSION GREEN LIGHT
Croydon's planning committee approved a major expansion of Trinity School in Shirley Park, adding 350 pupils and going fully co-educational by 2031. Source: Inside Croydon
💛 HEARTBEAT
🗳️ CROYDON MAKES VOTING ACCESSIBLE FOR ALL
🕐Polls open 7am–10pm, Thursday 7 May
🆔 Bring photo ID (passport, driving licence, or free Voter Authority Certificate)
♿Polling stations are wheelchair accessible
👁️The McGonagle Reader audio-tactile voting device is available for blind/partially sighted voters - contact Electoral Services in advance
📍Not sure where your polling station is? Check at gov.uk/find-polling-station
🗳️ ELECTION DAY: THE CANDIDATES AT A GLANCE
🔵 Jason Perry (Conservative) - Incumbent Mayor, 4 years in office. Croydon Education Partnership, highways investment, fiscal recovery
🔴 Rowenna Davis (Labour) - Former teacher. Schools, SEND, housing, community focus
🟢 Peter Underwood (Green Party) - Environment, rewilding, sustainable transport
🟡 Richard Howard (Liberal Democrats) - Local accountability, community services
🟠 Ben Flook (Reform UK) - National issues, anti-establishment vote
⚪ Michael Pusey (Taking The Initiative Party)
⚪ Jose Joseph (Independent)
Polls close Thursday 7 May at 10pm. 🆔 Bring photo ID.
🏆 ONLY IN CROYDON
💡 Did You Know? Croydon is one of only five London boroughs with its own directly elected Mayor. Today, that mayor could change for the first time in four years.
👀 Only in Croydon: The borough that gave the world the first international airport could today decide its political future by fewer votes than fit on a double-decker bus. In a borough of 400,000 people. Go vote! 🗳️
🗳️ That's your Election Day edition of Croydon Local Pulse. The polls are open until 10pm tonight. Results are expected from Saturday 8 May at 4pm. We'll have a full breakdown in Friday's issue.
Whatever happens tonight, the count on Friday and Saturday will be one for the history books. We'll be here with the full results breakdown. 📊
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