Council elections: Who is standing in your ward?

CANDIDATES STANDING in Calderdale in 2022 are as follows (* denotes sitting councillor).

BRIGHOUSE: HOWARD Blagbrough (Con)*, Frank Malcolm Darley (Lab), Michael James Sutton (Lib Dem), Adrian Thompson (Green).

CALDER: CHRISTINE BamptonSmith (Lib Dem), Sarah Courtney (Lab)*, Helen Claire Lasham (Freedom Alliance – Stop the Great Reset), Alan McDonald (Green), Jill SmithMoorhouse (Con).

ELLAND: JAVED Bashir (Lib Dem), Barry Crossland (Green), Angie Gallagher (Lab)*, Joseph Paul Stephen Matthews (Con). GREETLAND AND Stainland: Jacob Cook (Con)*, Jacquelyn Haigh (Green), Rahat Ullah

Khan (Lab), Christine Prashad (Lib Dem).

HIPPERHOLME AND Lightcliffe: Israr Ahmed (Lab), Joe William Atkinson (Con), Elaine Hey (Green), Jennie Rigg (Lib Dem).

ILLINGWORTH AND Mixenden: Laura Beesley (Green), Nikki Kelly (Con); Sean Loftus (Ind), Alexander Parsons-Hulse (Lib Dem), Dan Sutherland (Lab)*. LUDDENDEN FOOT: Abbie Carr (Lib Dem), Craig Ashton Oates (Con), Scott Patient (Lab)*, Kate Sweeny (Green). NORTHOWRAM AND Shelf: Stephen Baines (Con)*, Catherine Jane Crosland (Lib Dem), Martin Hey (Green), David Wager (Lab).

OVENDEN (TWO seats): Jean Andrea Bellenger (Lib Dem), Stuart Cairney (Lab), Catherine Graham (Green), Peter John Hunt (Con), Finn Jensen (Green), Helen Rivron (Lab)*, Andrew Tagg (Con).

PARK: SHAZAD Fazal (Lab)*, Mark Mullany (Green), Abdul Rehman (Lib Dem), Shakir Saghir (Con).

RASTRICK: REGAN Dickenson (Con)*, Peter Judge (Lab), Matthew Lawson (Green), Richard Arthur Phillips (Lib Dem).

RYBURN: FREDA Davis (Green), Steven Leigh (Con)*, Leah Webster (Lab), Peter Wilcock (Lib Dem).

SKIRCOAT: KATHLEEN HaighHutchinson (Lib Dem), John Michael Holdsworth (Con), Colin Hutchinson (Lab)*, Phil Whitbread (Green).

SOWERBY BRIDGE: David

Booth (Green), Mark Llewellyn Edwards (Con), Dot Foster (Lab)*, Tom Stringfellow (Lib Dem).

TODMORDEN: HELEN Brundell (Lab), Chris Jackson (National Front), Naveed Khan (Con), Nikki Stocks (Lib Dem), Kieran Turner (Green).

TOWN: ELLIOT Hey (Green), Penny Hutchinson (Con), Rosemary Tatchell (Lib Dem), Joe Thompson (Lab).

WARLEY: DAVE Budge (Ind), Martin Robert Davies (Freedom Alliance – Freedom for the People), Vishal Gupta (Con), Amanda Parsons-Hulse (Lib Dem)*, David Veitch (Lab), Katie Witham (Green).