Candidates for the Preston City Council elections have been announced across 19 wards which have local elections this year.
Labour currently holds control at the Town Hall, with 32 out of 57 councillors.
Local elections take place across the following wards on Thursday 7 May.
Ashton
Luke Bosman, Lib Dems
April Dwyer, Conservatives
Angela Meek Milne-Picken, Greens
Mark Francis Routledge, Labour
Brookfield
Daryl Bamber, Conservatives
David Martin Dawson, UKIP
Nerys Eaves, Labour
Kevin Roger Mahy, Greens
College
Martin John Pilkington, Greens
Harry Seddon, Conservatives
Mike Turner, Lib Dems
John Wilson, Labour
Deepdale
Issi Bax, Labour
Geoffrey Cross, Greens
Erol Huseynov, Conservatives
Garrison
Bill Houghton, Greens
Gillian Doreen Ann Mascord, Labour
Christine Thomas, Conservatives
Hans Voges, Liberal Dems
Greyfrairs
Rowena Ann Edmonson, Conservatives
Peter Holt-Mylroie, Lib Dems
Ian James McCormick, Greens
Alan Woods, Labour
Ingol
Peter Henry, Conservatives
Jason Paul Jeffrey, Lib Dems
Christopher Thomas Rigby, UKIP
John Rochford, Labour
Larches
Rebecca Finch, Lib Dems
Linda Hubberstey, Conservatives
Kallum Jack Poole, Greens
Rebecca Yates, Labour
Lea
Daniel Dewhurst, Conservatives
Lynne Wallace, Labour
Joe Young, Lib Dems
Moor Park
David Stanley Borrow, Labour
Jonty Campbell, Conservatives
Jonathan Rawstrone, Greens
Andrew Watt, UKIP
Preston Rural East
Neil Henderson Cartwright, Conservatives
Gerard Parke-Hatton, Labour
Preston Rural North
Peter Lawrence, Lib Dems
George Robert Tait, Labour
Stephen Geoffrey Thompson, Conservatives
Kate Elizabeth Walsh, UKIP
Ribbleton
Tony Helps, UKIP
Stephen Kay, Conservatives
Brian Rollo, Labour
Matthew Wilson, Greens
Riversway
Alasdair David Bremner, Greens
Matthew Hargreaves, Conservatives
Peter Moss, Labour
Maureen Watt, UKIP
Sharoe Green
Helen Disley, Greens
Sonia Gildert, Conservatives
Les Nyogeri, Independent
Greg Vickers, Lib Dems
Dave Victor George Wilson, Labour
St Matthew’s
Sheila Heys, Conservatives
Javed Iqbal, Labour
Mark Bernard Kingsley, UKIP
Town centre
Michael Balshaw, Conservatives
Yakub Patel, Labour
Alex Walker, Greens
Tulketh
Paul Anthony Barker, UKIP
Robert Boswell, Labour
Bowen Perryman, Conservatives
Mary Roberts, Greens
University
Stephanie Short, Conservatives
Vanessa Silva, Greens
John Swindells, Labour
There is no election in Cadley, Fishwick or St George’s.
The councillor seats up for election are the seats last contested in May 2011. This was the local election when Labour won control of the city council after a period of 12 years of no overall control, with a Conservative and Liberal Democrat informal coalition.
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