I am Parkhurst & Hunnyhill ward councillor on the Isle of Wight Council, and one of two ward councillors on Newport & Carisbrooke Community Council.
I was first elected to Isle of Wight Council in 2017, gaining the seat from the Conservatives. The result was:
| Andrew Garratt (Lib Dem) | 404 |
| Conservative | 272 |
| Labour | 78 |
Also in 2017, I was elected unopposed to one of the two Parkhurst ward seats on Newport & Carisbrooke Community Council.
I was re-elected to Isle of Wight Council in May 2021 to represent Parkhurst & Hunnyhill ward. This ward covers everyone in the former Parkhurst ward, along with Redver Gardens, Heytesbury Road, and Vicarage Walk, and the southern ends of Hookes Way and Hunnyhill. The result was:
| Andrew Garratt (Lib Dem) | 449 |
| Conservative | 179 |
| Green | 79 |
| Labour | 49 |
I was also elected unopposed, in May 2021, as one of the two councillors for Parkhurst & Hunnyhill ward on Newport & Carisbrooke Community Council.
I grew up in Lake and left the Island to go to university where I studied astrophysics.
In the 1990s I worked for the then MP for Christchurch, Diana Maddock, before joining the staff of then Lib Dem leader, Paddy Ashdown.
In the early 2000s I worked for the University of Portsmouth and subsequently for the Royal Statistical Society.
I moved back to the Island in 2007 and live in Worsley Road, Newport.
From 2014 to 2016 I was self-employed in public relations. Since 2016, I have been a tutor in mathematics and physics to GCSE and A level, and other sciences to GCSE.