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The Conservatives’ Bernard McGuin has the lowest majority - just 60 - of any sitting councillor in the 2021 elections. He faces five challengers this year with the Lib Dems’ Patrycja Bartosinka hoping to bag the seat to make Almondbury an all Lib Dem stronghold.
Patrycja Bartosinka (Lib Dem)
Tyler Hawkins (Lab)
Emma Kirkham (Freedom Alliance) Bernard McGuin (Con)
Peter Taylor (Green)
John Whittaker (Social Democrats)
Among those contesting the seat is former Lib Dem councillor (and group leader) Nicola Turner, who was defeated by Ms Griffiths in 2018 with a majority of just 94 votes.
Trevor Bellamy (Con)
Matthew McLoughlin (Lab)
Julia Norman (Green)
Nicola Turner (Lib Dems)
Now he faces another challenge from the Dewsbury Borough Independents in the form of Mark Thackray. Sources say the vote will once again be tight, and could go either way.
Simon Duffy (Green)
Eric Firth (Lab)
Dennis Hullock (Lib Dems)
Keith Mallinson (Con)
Mark Thackray (Dewsbury Borough Independents - Heavy Woollen District)
Dan Woodcock (Yorkshire Party)
Standing down this year are Lib Dem veteran and former Mayor of Kirklees Christine Iredale along with ex-Labour man Richard Murgatroyd who, like Rob Walker, quit the party over the direction of travel under the leadership of Sir Keir Starmer.
Clr Iredale’s husband Robert, also a former councillor, will fight the election in her stead along with Gina Dungworth. Labour and the Greens will also hope to perform strongly. Isaac Barnett (Con)
Gina Dungworth (Lib Dems)
Robert Iredale (Lib Dems)
Ruth Lewis (Freedom Alliance) Elizabeth Reynolds (Lab)
Nina Roberts (Green)
Dathan Tedesco (Lab)
Ian Vincent (Green) on Kirklees Council, took 44% of the ballot with 2,142 votes.
Rebecca Curtis-Haries (Freedom Alliance)
Jeffrey Fox (Green)
Charles Greaves (Ind)
Kingsley Hill (Lib Dems)
Susan Laird (Heritage Party)
Harry McCarthy (Lab)
Tony McGrath (Con)
Caroline Anstey (Lib Dems) Moses Crook (Lab)
James Dalton (Five Star Direct Democracy Party)
Donald Firth (Con)
Darryl Gould (Green)
Will Thompson (Yorkshire Party)
Standing for Labour in Kirkburton is Imran Safdar, formerly a Tory candidate for Crosland Moor and Netherton ward and who campaigned for Colne Valley MP Jason McCartney.
Mr Safdar later left the Conservative Party criticising its austerity plan and its problems with Islamaphobia. He will be hoping to topple Tory Richard Smith, who in 2016 was elected with a majority of 136 votes. Waheed Anwar (Lib Dems)
David Knight (Green)
Imran Safdar (Lab)
Richard Smith (Con)