Here’s the list of candidates standing in Kirklees Council’s local elections.

There are with 24 seats available in 23 of the council wards, as there are two places in Greenhead up for grabs.

ALMONDBURY:

Richard Allan, UK Independence Party

Melvin Gray, Independent

Judith Hughes, Labour Party,

Bernard McGuin, Conservative Party

Alison Munro, Liberal Democrats

Eddie Price, Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts

Benjamin Wightman, Green Party

ASHBROW:

Homma Abid, Conservative Party

Baljit Singh Aujla, Liberal Democrats

June Jones, Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts

Amanda Pinnock, Labour Party

Joan Brenda Smithson, Green Party

Fred Tiball, UK Independence Party

BATLEY EAST:

Jon Bloom, Liberal Democrats

Mohammed Esmail Laher, Conservative Party

Peter Robson, Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts

Amanda Stubley, Labour Party

Cass Whittingham, Green Party

BATLEY WEST:

Susie Bell Proctor, Conservative Party

Garry Kitchin, Green Party

Stephen Leach, Liberal Democrats

Marielle O’Neill, Labour and Co-operative Party

John Rattigan, Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts

BIRSTALL & BIRKENSHAW:

Joyce Holbrook, UK Independence Party

Elizabeth Kitchin, Green Party

Robert Light, Conservative Party

Megan Scholefield-Nicholson, Liberal Democrats,

Dathan Tedesco, Labour Party

CLECKHEATON:

Philip Buck, Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts

Andrew Gray, Conservative Party

Ken Lowe, Labour Party

Andrew Pinnock, Liberal Democrats

Catherine Stoyles, Green Party

Colin Walshaw, UK Independence Party

COLNE VALLEY:

Gordon Beever, Liberal Democrats

Donna Bellamy, Conservative Party

John Goodwin, Green Party

Dylan Murphy, Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts

Melanie Roberts, UK Independence Party

Robert Walker, Labour Party

CROSLAND MOOR & NETHERTON

Chas Ball, Green Party

Jason Bowen, Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts

Steve Bradbury, Independent

Paul George, UK Independence Party

Imran Safdar, Conservative Party

Mohammad Sarwar, Labour Party

Olivia Turner, Liberal Democrats

DALTON:

Maria Ackroyd, Conservative Party

Roger Battye, Liberal Democrats

David Honour, Green Party

Mus Khan, Labour Party

Jack McLean, Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts

Tom Wise, UK Independence Party

DENBY DALE:

Brian Bentley, UK Independence Party

Sarah Cook, Labour Party

Terry Sigsworth, Green Party

Michael Watson, Conservative Party

Andrew Wilkinson, Liberal Democrats

DEWSBURY EAST:

Greg Burrows, UK Independence Party

Mark Eastwood, Conservative Party

Eric Firth, Labour Party

Dennis Hullock, Liberal Democrats

Tony Kelsall, Green Party

DEWSBURY SOUTH:

Nosheed Dad, Labour Party

Bernard Disken, Liberal Democrats

Vicki Green, Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts

Shaun Maddox, English Democrats Putting England First

Salim Patel, Conservative Party

Catherine Whittingham, Green Party

DEWSBURY

Simon Cope, Green Party

Shehzad Hussain, Liberal Democrats

John Nottingham, Conservative Party

Darren O’Donovan, Labour Party

GOLCAR:

Robert Iredale, Liberal Democrats

Oliver Rees, UK Independence Party

Hilary Richards, Labour Party

Abi Shaw, Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts

Chris Worsley, Conservative Party

GREENHEAD: two seats available.

Nick Martinek, UK Independence Party

Robert McGuin, Conservative Party

Zahid Mehmood, Conservative Party

Carole Pattison, Labour Party

John Phillips, Green Party

Manjit Singh, Liberal Democrats

Nik Taylor, Green Party

Sheikh Ullah, Labour Party

David Waight, Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts

Linda Wild, Liberal Democrats

HECKONDWIKE:

Alan Freeman, Green Party

Aleks Lukic, UK Independence Party

Josie Pugsley, Liberal Democrats

David Sheard, Labour Party

Robert Thornton, Conservative Party

Karl Varley, Patriotic Socialist Party

HOLME VALLEY NORTH:

Stephen Baggott, Conservative Party

Stephen Bird, Liberal Democrats

Jenny Dealey, Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts

Keiron Dunn, Labour Party

Edgar Holroyd-Doveton, Valley Independent

HOLME VALLEY SOUTH:

Anne Baldwin, Labour Party

Roger Keely, Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts

Sonia King, Green Party

Arthur Pritchard, Liberal Democrats

Alan Schofield, UK Independence Party

Ken Sims, Conservative Party

KIRKBURTON:

Derek Hardcastle, Green Party

Allison Maclean, Labour Party

Jatinder Singh, LIberal Democrats

Naeem Siraj, Independent

John Taylor, Conservative Party

LINDLEY:

Tony Brice, Independent

Emily Chiappini, Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts

Richard Eastwood, Liberal Democrats

Douglas Morgan, Labour Party

Richard Plunkett, Green Party

Gemma Wilson, Conservative Party

LIVERSEDGE & GOMERSAL:

Jessica Berry, Green Party

Richard Farnhill, Liberal Democrats

Simon Holbrook, UK Independence Party

Lisa Holmes, Conservative Party

Cath Pinder, Labour Party

MIRFIELD:

Patrick Dennehy, Labour Party

John Dobson, Liberal Democrats

Richard Green, Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts

Michael Holbrook, UK Independence Party

Kathleen Taylor, Conservative Party

Nicholas Whittingham, Green Party

NEWSOME:

Tasmin Coloney, Conservative Party

Ian French, UK Independence Party

Nadeem Iqbal, Labour Party

Paul Randall, Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts

Eleanor Ritchie, Liberal Democrats

Julie Stewart-Turner, Green Party