All the candidates standing in the local elections

The local and mayoral elections are due to take place next month after the coronavirus pandemic forced a year's delay.

One seat in each of the 19 wards in Tameside is being contested on Thursday, May 6 with 67 candidates standing across the borough.

Labour holds the vast majority of seats currently up for election, with two Conservative seats also on the table.

In the last local elections in 2019, there was an upset as the traditional Labour stronghold of Ashton Waterloo was taken by Green candidate Lee Huntbach, who claimed the seat by 140 votes.

This year the Green Party are challenging all 19 seats in the borough.

They will be aiming to make political capital from public opposition to countryside development plans, including the highly controversial Godley Green Garden Village plans for land in Hyde.

This election also sees the Hyde wards as the mostly hotly contested, with the largest number of candidates standing in Hyde Godley ward.

However this may see the vote split, as Tory candidates have also been campaigning against the Godley Green plans.

The Liberal Democrats are fielding five candidates this year, followed by Reform UK – the rebranded Brexit Party – with three candidates.

The hyper local Stalybridge Town Party are fielding one candidate in Stalybridge North.

However there will be no appearance, as in previous years, of the Monster Raving Loony Party at this election.

Several incumbent councillors are standing down, including Pauline Hollinshead in Ashton Waterloo and veteran Labour member Brian Wild in Dukinfield, who has served on the council since 1994.

A number of front bench councillors are also seeking to defend their seats, including Labour cabinet members Ged Cooney and Leanne Feeley, and Conservative group leader Doreen Dickinson.

Ashton Hurst Ward

Phil Blakeney, Green Party

Dan Costello, Conservative

Leigh Drennan, Labour (Incumbent)

Matthew Holgate, Liberal Democrats

Ashton St Michael’s Ward

Matt Allen, Conservative

Jean Drennan, Labour

Keith Whitehead, Green Party

Ashton Waterloo Ward

Karen Howarth-Hamilton, Conservative

Sangita Patel, Labour

Lorraine Whitehead, Green Party

Audenshaw Ward

Timothy Body, Green Party

Danny Mather, Conservative

Teresa Smith, Labour (Incumbent)

Denton North East Ward

John Bradley, Green Party

Dawn Cobb, Conservative

Denise Ward, Labour (Incumbent)

Denton South Ward

Timothy Cho, Conservative

Ben Hart, Green Party

Barbara Kaya, Reform UK

George Newton, Labour (Incumbent)

Denton West Ward

Thomas Dunne, Conservative

George Jones, Labour (Incumbent)

Jean Smee, Green Party

Droylsden East Ward

Louise Axon, Green Party

David Mills, Labour (Incumbent)

Matt Stevenson, Conservative

Droylsden West Ward

Ged Cooney, Labour (Incumbent)

Maurice Jackson, Reform UK

Harrison Roden, Conservative

Annie Train, Green Party

Dukinfield Stalybridge Ward

Dawn Anthony, Green Party

Leanne Feeley, Labour (Incumbent)

Kurt McPartland, Conservative

Dukinfield Ward

Naila Sharif, Labour

Lucille Tuner, Conservative

Julie Wood, Green Party

Hyde Godley Ward

Sally Ashe, Liberal Democrats

Andrea Colbourne, Conservative

Kenneth Cooper, Green Party

John Edge, Liberal Party

Joe Kitchen, Labour (Incumbent)

Hyde Newton Ward

Mike Baker, Green Party

Peter Ball-Foster, Liberal Democrats

Melissa Molloy, Conservative

Peter Robinson, Labour and Co-operative Party (Incumbent)

Hyde Werneth Ward

Nicola Harrop, Green Party

Richard O’Brien, Liberal Democrats

Hugh Roderick, Labour

Ruth Welsh, Conservative (Incumbent)

Longdendale Ward

Irene Brierley, Green Party

Lavlu Kader, Conservative

Jacqueline North, Labour

Shaun Offerman, Liberal Democrats

Mossley Ward

Christine Clark, Green Party

Andrew Hay, Conservative

Jack Homer, Labour (Incumbent)

St. Peters Ward

Warren Bray, Labour (Incumbent)

Trevor Clarke, Green Party

David Rose, Conservative

Christopher Tompson, Reform UK

Stalybridge North Ward

Dave Fernley, Green Party

Jan Jackson, Labour and Co-operative Party (Incumbent)

Lee Stafford, Stalybridge Town Party

David Tilbrook, Conservative

Stalybridge South Ward

Doreen Dickinson, Conservative (Incumbent)

Amanda Hickling, Green Party

Paul Thompson, Labour

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