Us East Midlanders are being given the chance to have a say on who will be in charge of a giant £4 billion investment pot, by voting for the first-ever regional mayor. 

Voters will elect the first ever East Midlands Mayor next month covering Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.

The mayor will lead a combined county authority that is being given powers currently held by Westminster to invest over the long-term in priorities like transport, skills, housing regeneration, and net zero. 

It won’t duplicate what local councils do.

Leicester and Leicestershire are not part of the new East Midlands Combined County Authority.

All lists are correct at the time of publication and will be updated regularly.

Here’s who you can vote for….

• Frank Adlington-Stringer, Green Party

Frank Adlington-Stringer is the first ever Green councillor elected in North East Derbyshire. He’s promised to bring about a Green Industrial Revolution – while creating citizens assemblies for the public to have their say.

• Cllr Ben Bradley MP, Conservative

Conservative leader of Nottinghamshire Country Council and Mansfield MP, Ben Bradley has thrown his hat in the ring. He says he’ll spend some of the devolved money on improving roads and public transport. He’s spoken about the importance of being from the area and being the right person to encourage investment into the region.

• Cllr Alan Graves, Reform UK

Reform UK’s candidate is Derby councillor and Lord Mayor Alan Graves. He says people in the East Midlands don’t currently have a voice, but he would get rid of the new Combined County Authority, claiming having a Mayor is a waste of money

• Matt Relf, Independent

Matt Relf is an independent candidate who boasts a decade of experience in highways maintenance. He says only an independent can stand up to Westminster and put the East Midlands first while building the right kind of homes, not just ones that are profitable for developers.

• Helen Tamblyn-Saville, Liberal Democrat

• Claire Ward, Labour

Labour’s hopeful is the former MP Claire Ward. She’s worked a lot with the NHS and says she’ll be a champion for better services and a voice for forgotten communities. She wants to increase the number of affordable homes across the region and help create thousands of jobs in the green sector.