East Putney and Thamesfield branch nominations

The first two ward branches met tonight to nominate the candidates they'd like to appear on the final shortlist for the 10th June hustings: East Putney and Thamesfield.

The selection process has three stages - first, branch members meet to decide who they'd like to shortlist. Each branch (and a branch is a council ward, of which there are six in the constituency) has three nominations: for a man, a woman and a candidate of either gender from a black or minority ethnic community. Only those of us who applied last month for consideration can be nominated. Those nominations go forward to a shortlisting meeting next month, and finally the shortlisted candidates go on to a hustings meeting on 10th June.

Members make their decisions on the basis of the formal application CVs we each submitted at the beginning of the process, plus any extra information candidates may have sent out themselves in the meantime, and of course whether or not they've met or heard of us.

For me it was a great start to the process: I received the nominations of both branches. Thank you to both wards for giving me your nominations: I really appreciate it.