Every council seat in Tameside is being contested as the borough’s first all-out election for nearly 20 years takes place next month.
Following a review by the Boundary Commission for England, all 57 seats at the local authority are up for election on Thursday, May 4.
A total of 118 candidates are standing for councillor positions in each of the 19 wards which make up the town hall. Currently the chamber has 47 Labour members, eight Conservatives, one Green Party member and one independent.
The polls open on May 4 from 7am until 10pm, and residents have until midnight on Monday, April 17 to make sure they are on the electoral register and therefore entitled to vote.
Labour are putting up 57 candidates across all the wards, with the Conservatives fielding 32, the Green Party 21, the Liberal Democrats three, and the Official Monster Raving Loony Party has one candidate.
Three independent candidates are also standing, and the Women’s Equality Party has put forward one candidate.
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Under new government legislation, voters must also now show photo ID when voting in person, as you will be turned away without this.
If you do not currently have an accepted form of photo ID such as a passport or driving license, you can apply for a Voter Authority Certificate before 5pm on April 25.
The deadline to register to vote by post is 5pm on Tuesday, April 18 while the deadline to register online for a proxy vote is 5pm on Tuesday, April 25.
Here is the full list of candidates standing in the Tameside elections:
Ashton Hurst
- Dan Costello – Conservative Party
- Mike Glover – Labour Party
- Hilary Jones – Green Party
- Mohammed Karim – Labour Party
- Dolores Lewis – Labour Party
- Lucy Turner – Conservative Party
Ashton St Michael’s
- John Bartley – Liberal Democrats
- Jean Drennan – Labour Party
- Bill Fairfoull – Labour Party
- Victoria Golas – Conservative Party
- Andrew McLaren – Labour Party
- Jenny Ross – Green Party
Ashton Waterloo
- Matt Allen – Conservative Party
- Vimal Choksi – Labour Party
- Christine Clark – Green Party
- Trevor Clarke – Green Party
- Dave Howarth – Labour Party
- Lee Huntbach – Green Party
- Sangita Patel – Labour Party
Audenshaw
- Nick Axford – Labour Party
- Charlotte Martin – Labour Party
- Danny Mather – Conservative Party
- Luke Robinson – Green Party
- Teresa Smith – Labour Party
Denton North East
- John Bradley – Green Party
- Dawn Cobb – Conservative Party
- Allison Gwynne – Labour Party
- Vincent Ricci – Labour Party
- Denise Ward – Labour Party
Denton South
- Timothy Cho – Conservative Party
- Bethany Gartside – Green Party
- Farmin Lord F’Tang F’Tang Dave of Haughton – Official Monster Raving Loony Party
- Jack Naylor – Labour Party
- George Newton – Labour Party
- Claire Reid – Labour Party
Denton West
- Tom Dunne – Conservative Party
- George Jones – Labour Party
- Christopher Parr – Green Party
- Mike Smith – Labour Party
- Brenda Warrington – Labour Party
Droylsden East
- Louise Axon – Green Party
- Laura Boyle – Labour Party
- Rowan Fitton – Liberal Democrats
- David Mills – Labour Party
- Susan Quinn – Labour Party
- Matt Stevenson – Conservative Party
Droylsden West
- Ged Cooney – Labour Party
- Nicola Harrop – Green Party
- Ann Holland – Labour Party
- Barrie Holland – Labour Party
- James Wrexler – Conservative Party
Dukinfield
- Jackie Lane – Labour Party
- David Rose – Conservative Party
- Naila Sharif – Labour Party
- John Taylor – Labour Party
- Julie Wood – Green Party
Dukinfield Stalybridge
- David Dawson – Conservative Party
- Leanne Feeley – Labour Party
- Linda Freeman – Green Party
- Kurt McPartland – Conservative Party
- Malcolm Smith – Conservative Party
- David Sweeton – Labour Party
- Eleanor Wills – Labour Party
Hyde Godley
- Betty Affleck – Labour and Cooperative Party
- Andrea Colbourne – Conservative Party
- Joe Kitchen – Labour and Cooperative Party
- David McAllister – Labour and Cooperative Party
- Melissa Molloy – Conservative Party
- Zebedee Powell – Green Party
- Ali Reza – Conservative Party
Hyde Newton
- Peter Ball-Foster – Liberal Democrats
- Helen Bowden – Labour and Cooperative Party
- Carl Edwards – Conservative Party
- Wendy Ince – Conservative Party
- Emma Powell – Green Party
- Peter Robinson – Labour and Cooperative Party
- Hugh Roderick – Labour and Cooperative Party
Hyde Werneth
- Shibley Alam – Labour and Cooperative Party
- Phil Chadwick – Conservative Party
- Alex Cooper – Green Party
- Jim Fitzpatrick – Labour and Cooperative Party
- Paul Molloy – Conservative Party
- Muhammad Rahman – Labour and Cooperative Party
- Ruth Welsh – Conservative Party
Longdendale
- Doris Brierley – Green Party
- Leslie Browning – Conservative Party
- Gary Ferguson – Labour Party
- Jacqueline North – Labour Party
- Jacqueline Owen – Labour Party
- Cameron Robertson – Conservative Party
Mossley
- Dean Aylett – Independent
- Dermot Gill – Green Party
- Andrew Hay – Conservative Party
- Jack Homer – Labour Party
- Steve Homer – Labour Party
- Taf Sharif – Labour Party
- Hattie Thomas – Women’s Equality Party
St Peter’s
- Iftikhar Ahmad – Independent
- Shazad Azam – Conservative Party
- Joyce Bowerman – Labour Party
- Warren Bray – Labour Party
- David McNally – Labour Party
- Sarah Whiteley – Green Party
Stalybridge North
- Steven Barton – Independent
- Christine Beardmore – Labour Party
- Jan Jackson – Labour Party
- Ky Marland – Conservative Party
- Alice Mason-Power – Green Party
- Clive Patrick – Conservative Party
- Adrian Pearce – Labour Party
- Lisa Tilbrook – Conservative Party
Stalybridge South
- Liam Billington – Conservative Party
- Francesca Coates – Labour Party
- Doreen Dickinson – Conservative Party
- Katy Flanagan – Labour Party
- Amanda Hickling – Green Party
- Stuart McKenzie – Labour Party
- David Tilbrook – Conservative Party
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