ONE hundred candidates representing a host of different parties will be contesting the seats which are up for grabs at Dudley Council.

Residents will be casting their votes for the first time in two years to decide the make-up of the authority at the ballot on Thursday, May 6.

Click here for the full list local-elections-statement-of-persons-nominated-2021.pdf or see below.

The Government was forced to postpone the local elections last year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Dudley Council will be counting the votes and declaring the results on Thursday night while the counts for both the West Midlands Mayor and Police and Crime Commissioner elections will take place on the Saturday (May 8). Click here to see the nominations for the Mayoral election.pdf and police and crime commissioner election PCC.pdf

This year, there are 26 seats available out of the total of 72 serving the 24 wards across the borough.

Most of the wards will see one candidate elected, with residents in Belle Vale and Kingswinford North & Wall Heath selecting two.

The 2019 election ended in a dead heat with both Labour and the Conservatives holding 36 seats each, before the Tory mayor Alan Taylor used his casting vote to give his party control.

The full list of nominations, by ward, are:

Amblecote:

Ellen Cobb – Labour

Ian Flynn – Liberal Democrats

Adrian Mabe – Green

Kamran Razzaq – Conservative

Jake Woodley – Independent

Belle Vale:

Dainel Bevan – Conservative

Peter Dobb – Conservative

Bill McComish – Green

Marjorie Pounder – Liberal Democrats

Savannah Southern – Labour

Andrew Tromans – Labour

Brierley Hill:

Claire Bramall – Liberal Democrats

Trevor Bunn – Reform UK

Serena Craigie – Labour

Adam Davies – Conservative

Brockmoor & Pensnett:

Rebbekah Collins – Conservative

Steve Edwards – Black Country Party

John Martin – Labour

Castle & Priory:

Margaret Aston – Labour

Liz Tilly – Liberal Democrats

Mark Webb – Conservative

Coseley East: 

Lynette Corfield – Conservative

Sue Ridney – Labour

Helen Wimlett – UKIP

Cradley & Wollescote:

Natalie Neale – Conservative

Gaye Partridge – Labour

Ryan Priest – Liberal Democrats

Sarah Smith – Black Country Party

Gornal:

Marian Howard – Labour

Mollie Priest – Liberal Democrats

David Stanley – Conservative

Stuart Turner – Social Democratic Party

Phil Wimlett – UKIP

Halesowen North:

Hilary Bills – Labour

Stuart Henley – Conservative

Andrew McKay – Liberal Democrats

Halesowen South:

Derek Campbell – Liberal Democrats

Nick Gregory – Black Country Party

Donella Russell – Labour

David Vickers – Conservative

James Windridge – Green

Hayley Green & Cradley Heath:

Tony Barnsley – Labour

Ruth Buttery – Conservative

John Payne – Green

Ethan Stafford – Liberal Democrats

Kingswinford North & Wall Heath:

Phil Atkins – Conservative

Richard Lloyd – Labour

Shaz Saleem – Conservative

David Sheppard – Liberal Democrats

Adam Woodhall – Labour

Kingswinford South: 

Elizabeth Geeves – Liberal Democrats

Luke Johnson – Conservative

Daniel Round – Labour

Lye & Stourbridge North:

Dave Borley – Conservative

Gary Farmer – Libertarian Party

Abdul Qadus – Liberal Democrats

Maz Qari – Labour

Lawrence Rowlett – Green

Netherton Woodside & St Andrew’s: 

Helen Betts-Patel – Labour

Damian Corfield – Conservative

Tracey Gregg – Liberal Democrats

Alexander Wright – Green

Norton: 

Pam Archer – Green

Christopher Brammall – Liberal Democrats

Laura Taylor – Conservative

Paul White – Labour

Tim Woodley – Independent

Pedmore & Stourbridge East:

James Clinton – Conservative

Simon Hanson – Liberal Democrats

Catherine Maguire – Green

Rachel Tudor – Labour

Glen Wilson – Black Country Party

Quarry Bank & Dudley Wood:

Rob Clinton – Conservative

Richard Priest – Liberal Democrats

Brian Roe – Labour

Jason Sprintall – Green

Sedgley:

Steve Beardsmore – Labour

Martin Day – Libertarian Party

Michael Evans – Conservative

St James’s:

Asif Ahmed – Labour

Alison Miller – Liberal Democrats

Wayne Sullivan – Conservative

St Thomas’s:

Shaukat Ali – Labour

Nicola Fisher – Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition

Sajid Hanif – Conservative

Sofie Harris – Liberal Democrats

Upper Gornal & Woodsetton:

Keiran Casey – Labour

Rich Colley – UKIP

Andy Griffin – Reform UK

Benjamin Perry – Liberal Democrats

Mark Westwood – Conservative

Wollaston & Stourbridge Town:

Jonathan Bramall – Liberal Democrats

Cat Eccles – Labour

Alan Hopwood – Conservative

Maxim Lowe – Black Country Party

Andi Mohr – Green

Wordsley:

Muhammed Ikhlaq – Labour

Kerry Lewis – Conservative

Elaine Sheppard – Liberal Democrats

Jennifer Slater-Reid – Green