BIOGRAPHY

Following a varied career as an English teacher abroad, a bookseller in Wales and a London and British Isles tour guide, Hilary finally settled in the Upper Calder Valley to raise her family. For many years now she has worked in the field of disability and employment, fighting for social inclusion on behalf of disadvantaged groups. She shares a passion for community engagement and local regeneration with her partner, Dr Lindsay Smales, and urban design consultant. Between them they have four more-or-less grown-up children and live in Todmorden where they enjoy hill walking with their border collie.

Date of Birth: 07/06/1956
Occupation: Development worker for Rochdale & District Mind
Marital status/children: Married with 4 children

Contact Details

Address:
16 Park Road
Todmorden
OL14 5NJ

Tel: 01706 817812

Email: hilarymyers@parkroadtod.plus.com

Before a general election is actually called, there is no actual candidate, but local parties normally select a spokesperson in advance who will normally become the candidate, Hilary Myers was selected in 2007 to be the Prospective Parliamentary Candidate (PPC) for Calder Valley in a contested ballot of all local party members.

Calder Valley Liberal Democrats are working for you througout the year. Our candidate for the next General Election will be Hilary Myers, currently serving as a town councillor in Todmorden.

We welcome your opinion on local issues and hope you can help us with our campaigns, our News section has recent updates on local issues and national stories. Hilary is also our best contact if you would like to get involved.


If you live in the Halifax constituency, then our candidate and contact is Diane Park who can be contacted via the Halifax Lib Dem website.

Image produced from the Ordnance Survey electionmap service. Image reproduced with permission of Ordnance Survey and Land and Property Services.

We organise campaigns for elections to the Westminster Parliament for the County Constituency that covers half the population of Calderdale Metropolitan Borough. The constituency includes the communities of Brighouse, Elland, Hipperholme, Lightcliffe, Rastrick, Hebden Bridge, Mytholmroyd, Luddendenfoot, Greetland, Stainland, Calder and Todmorden.

Calder Valley Lib Dems is a branch of the Calderdale local party of the Liberal Democrats. The main contact for news and information is Hilary Myers.

Calderdale Lib Dems are pleased to have been able to appoint a dedicated website manager as part of Hilary’s campaign team and all the local party websites will be revamped and updated over the ne