Ward profile: Brunswick and Adelaide

Candidates (Two seats)

Andy Ryder (Conservative) - @Andyjryder

Maryam Shapouri (Conservative) - @Mazelino

*PhÃ©lim Mac Cafferty (Green) - @Phelimmac

*Ollie Sykes (Green) - @Brunswick_Green

Melanie Davis (Labour)

Richard Stewart (Labour)

David Sears (Liberal Democrats)

Simon Doyle (Liberal Democrats)

Gzunder Campbell (Official Monster Raving Loony)

Gemma Furness (UKIP)

Linda Reid (UKIP)

Poll watch

In their vastly-different ways, the two Green Party councillors in Brunswick and Adelaide are very much "big beasts" on the political scene of Brighton and Hove - even though neither would welcome the epithet.

PhÃ©lim Mac Cafferty, chair of planning, and Ollie Sykes, lead member for finance, are two of the most intelligent, articulate, and committed of the current crop of elected representatives. And both are standing again in this two-seat ward.

It shows what a mountain Labour has to climb when you recall that a Liberal Democrat came third in 2011. The two Labour candidates were more than 500 votes off the pace.

The mountain could be even higher on May 7: Labour has chosen one also-ran - Melanie Davis, a former councillor for Goldsmid, whose profile as chair of Brighton and Hove District Labour Party is so low it is nigh on subterranean - and Richard Stewart, who has yet to make a mark. Notably, the ward does not figure even on the local party's website (www.brightonhovelabour.com).

For the Conservatives, Maryam Shapouri and Andy Ryder appear capable of putting up a good fight, despite the shadow of UKIP. But it is likely to be to no avail.

Whatever might happen elsewhere, it is difficult to see anything other than the Green Party holding its ground in Brunswick and Adelaide.

2011 election results

CandidatesÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Votes (%)

PhÃ©lim Mac Cafferty (Green - elected) 1,140 (19%)

Ollie Sykes (Green - elected) 1,135 (19%)

Paul Elgood (Liberal Democrats)Â 919 (15%)

Ray Barnes (Labour) 622 (10%)

Rob Macey (Labour) 611 (10%)

Brian Stone (Liberal Democrats) 502 (8%)

Richard Latham (Conservative) 395 (7%)

Adam Nicholas Campbell (Conservative) 394 (7%)

David Watkins (Independent) 163 (3%)

Mark Robert Cribb (UKIP) 69 (1%)

Factfile (Source: Census 2011)

Households: 5,875

Density (people per hectare): 221

Women: 46% (4,665)

Men: 54% (5,450)

Average age: 36

Higher managerial occupations: 15.1% (1,402)

Unemployed: 6.6% (491)

White: 88.9% (8,990)

Black/African/Caribbean/Black British: 1.3% (132)

Asian/Asian British: 3.8% (386)

Number who cannot speak English well: 141

Dependent children in household (% of all households): 11.5%

Christians: 32%

No religion: 52%

Number of same-sex civil partnerships: 87

Divorced: 9%

Living as co-habiting couple: 24.5%

Married: 17.8%

One family - all aged 65 and over: 1.2%

Lone parent - with dependent children: 4%

No adults in employment, with dependent children: 1.9%

Long-term unemployed: 1.7%

Activities limited a lot by poor health: 4.9%

No cars or vans in household: 55%

No qualifications: 6.5%

Full-time students aged 18 and over: 9%

No adults in employment - with dependent children: 1.9%

One person in household with long-term health problem/disability - with dependent children: 1.6%