Open Hastings / Councillors
Councillors
Who represents you. Hastings elects 32
borough councillors — two per ward — to Hastings Borough Council, and
8 county councillors, one per division, to East Sussex
County Council. Both lists are read straight from the councils' own
member registers.
Your borough councillors
32 councillors across 16 wards, read from Hastings Borough Council's own register; the posts shown are the ones the council lists. Committee seats for borough councillors are not published in a form we can read yet.
Ashdown
Baird
Braybrooke
Cllr Mark Etherington · Green Party
Braybrooke ward, Hastings Borough Council
Planning, Infrastructure & Regulatory Services Portfolio Holder; Armed Forces Champion
Their page on the council's
site has surgeries, contact details and the full record.
Castle
Cllr Becca Horn · Green Party
Castle ward, Hastings Borough Council
Community Safety and Environmental Services Portfolio Holder
Also a county councillor — that card.
Their page on the council's
site has surgeries, contact details and the full record.
Central St Leonards
Conquest
Gensing
Hollington
Maze Hill
Cllr Darren Mackenzie · Green Party
Maze Hill ward, Hastings Borough Council
Finance, IT, Risk and Assets Portfolio Holder
Their page on the council's
site has surgeries, contact details and the full record.
Old Hastings
Cllr Julia Hilton · Green Party
Old Hastings ward, Hastings Borough Council
Deputy Leader of the Council, Shaping Places, Regeneration and Community Wealth Building Portfolio Holder
Also a county councillor — that card.
Their page on the council's
site has surgeries, contact details and the full record.
Ore
Cllr Clem McCulloch · Green Party
Ore ward, Hastings Borough Council
Chair of the Charity Committee
Their page on the council's
site has surgeries, contact details and the full record.
Cllr Jo Walker · Green Party
Ore ward, Hastings Borough Council
Climate, Nature and Green Spaces Portfolio Holder
Also a county councillor — that card.
Their page on the council's
site has surgeries, contact details and the full record.
Silverhill
St Helens
Tressell
Cllr Glenn Haffenden · Green Party
Tressell ward, Hastings Borough Council
Leader of the Council and Housing, Health, Active Communities and LGR Portfolio Holder
Their page on the council's
site has surgeries, contact details and the full record.
West St Leonards
Wishing Tree
Your county councillors
8 councillors, one per electoral division, to East Sussex County Council, which decides highways, social care, schools and more. A division covers more than one ward, so the ward areas shown are a guide rather than a boundary map.
Cllr Aidan Fisher · Reform UK
Hastings - Ashdown and Conquest division, East Sussex County Council
The division takes in the Ashdown, Conquest ward areas.
Sits on: Full Council
Their page on the council's
site has surgeries, contact details and the full record.
Cllr Jo Walker · Green Party
Hastings - Baird and Ore division, East Sussex County Council
The division takes in the Baird ward area.
Sits on: Full Council
Also a borough councillor — that card.
Their page on the council's
site has surgeries, contact details and the full record.
Cllr Becca Horn · Green Party
Hastings - Braybrooke and Castle division, East Sussex County Council
The division takes in the Braybrooke ward area.
Sits on: Full Council, Place Scrutiny Committee
Also a borough councillor — that card.
Their page on the council's
site has surgeries, contact details and the full record.
Cllr Amanda Jobson · Green Party
Hastings - Central St Leonards and Gensing division, East Sussex County Council
The division takes in the Central St Leonards ward area.
Sits on: Full Council
Also a borough councillor — that card.
Their page on the council's
site has surgeries, contact details and the full record.
Cllr Mark Estcourt · Reform UK
Hastings - Hollington and Wishing Tree division, East Sussex County Council
The division takes in the Hollington, Wishing Tree ward areas.
Sits on: Full Council, Cabinet
Their page on the council's
site has surgeries, contact details and the full record.
Cllr Karen Simnett · Green Party
Hastings - Maze Hill and West St Leonards division, East Sussex County Council
The division takes in the West St Leonards ward area.
Sits on: Full Council
Also a borough councillor — that card.
Their page on the council's
site has surgeries, contact details and the full record.
Cllr Julia Hilton · Green Party
Hastings - Old Hastings and Tressell division, East Sussex County Council
The division takes in the Tressell ward area.
Sits on: Full Council, Place Scrutiny Committee (Chair)
Also a borough councillor — that card.
Their page on the council's
site has surgeries, contact details and the full record.
Cllr Shaun Dowling · Green Party
Hastings - St Helens and Silverhill division, East Sussex County Council
The division takes in the Silverhill, St Helens ward areas.
Sits on: Full Council, Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee
Their page on the council's
site has surgeries, contact details and the full record.
Registers: Hastings Borough Council
(hastings.moderngov.co.uk)
and East Sussex County Council
(democracy.eastsussex.gov.uk),
last confirmed Sat 5 Sep 2026. Public role facts only: names,
wards or divisions, parties, stated posts and committee seats, as the
councils publish them. For anything personal, the councils' own pages are
the record. Which wards a county division covers is worked out from the
division's name, so treat that as a guide rather than a boundary map.
How Hastings voted has every election result the
borough has published.