Dudley Council elections 2026 - full list of candidates

The Conservatives are the biggest group and currently control Dudley Council with help from the Liberal Democrats, while Labour is the largest opposition group.

Reform UK and The Black Country Party also have councillors and all the parties will be looking to win as many of the 25 seats that will be up for grabs when voters have their say next Thursday (May 7).

The Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats and Reform UK and are all fielding a full slate of 25 candidates.

In Dudley voters will elect representatives for a third of seats on the councils.

Voters will select one councillor for each of the 24 wards, except for Wollaston and Stourbridge Town, where two seats are up for election due to the resignation of former councillor Cat Eccles, who is Stourbridge MP.

Counting will begin shortly after polls close, with results expected in the early hours of Friday May 8.

Below is a full list of candidates for each ward:

Amblecote:

Ian Flynn (Liberal Democrats)

Wayne Lewis (Reform UK)

Adrian Mabe (Green Party)

Benjamin McCloskey (Labour)

Kamran Razzaq (Conservative)

Belle Vale:

Angela Blythe (Reform UK)

Peter Dobb (Conservative)

Steve Hilton (Green Party)

Ben Pugh (Labour)

Richard Wanklin (Liberal Democrats)

Brierley Hill & Wordsley South:

Nawaz Aneesa (Liberal Democrats)

Andrew Bennett (Green Party)

Shane Birch-Bastock (Conservative)

Tony Dickenson (Reform UK)

Karen Jones (Labour)

Wayne Lewis (Black Country Party)

Brockmoor & Pensnett:

Jonathan Bramall (Liberal Democrats)

Joel Hyde (Reform UK)

Amy Knight (Green Party)

John Martin (Labour)

Matt Snell (Conservative)

Karen Westwood (Black Country Party)

Castle & Priory:

David Bramall (Liberal Democrats)

Dan Dale (Conservative)

Karl Denning (Black Country Party)

Ant Dugmore (Green Party)

Jan McGeough (Reform UK)

Tony Middleton (Labour)

Coseley:

Toni Baker (Green Party)

Martin Day (Libertarian Party)

Roxanne Holmes (Liberal Democrats)

Henry Oche (Conservative)

Dave Roberts (Labour)

Sat Sherwani (Reform UK)

Cradley North & Wollescote:

Caley Ashman (Reform UK)

Matt Collins (Labour)

Bridget Hilton (Green Party)

Eric Perry (Conservative)

Abdul Qadus (Independent)

Ethan Stafford (Liberal Democrats)

Gornal:

Kaz Evans (Green Party)

Stephen Holmes (Liberal Democrats)

Jeff Ndlovu (Labour)

Claire Sullivan (Conservative)

Chris Whitehouse (Reform UK)

Halesowen North:

Ash Flavin (Green Party)

Tracey Gregg (Liberal Democrats)

Stuart Henley (Conservative)

Fiona Murray (Labour)

Aveena Sherwani (Reform UK)

Halesowen South:

Andrew Barnfield (Reform UK)

Caroline Benton (Liberal Democrats)

Michael Hanley (Labour)

Thomas Russon (Conservative)

James Windridge (Green Party)

Hayley Green & Cradley South:

Zach Beed (Green Party)

Bex Collins (Conservative)

Julian Hammond Miller (Labour)

Alison Hunt (Liberal Democrats)

Jon Mucklow (Reform UK)

Kingswinford North & Wall Heath:

Stephen Cole (Reform UK)

Jacqueline Foster (Labour)

Ninette Harris (Green Party)

Charlie Passmore (Liberal Democrats)

Mark Webb (Conservative)

Kingswinford South:

Simon Daniel (Labour)

Simon Hanson (Liberal Democrats)

Graham Howes (Reform UK)

Luke Johnson (Conservative)

Dom Palermo (Green Party)

Lye & Stourbridge North:

Naz Ahmed (Liberal Democrats)

Lisa Clinton (Reform UK)

Ellen Cobb (Labour)

Matt Cook (Black Country Party)

Danny Hussain (Green Party)

Julia Savage (Conservative)

Netherton & Holly Hall:

Manjit Kaur (Green Party)

Shaneila Mughal (Labour)

Richard Priest (Liberal Democrats)

Jack Thompson (Reform UK)

James Tye (Conservative)

Norton:

Phil Boaler (Reform UK)

Matt Broad (Labour)

Lee Furness (Liberal Democrats)

Alan Hopwood (Conservative)

Stephen Price (Green Party)

Pedmore & Stourbridge East:

Dave Borley (Conservative)

Mark Kent (Labour)

Nigel Kirkham (Liberal Democrats)

Beth Scrimshaw (Green Party)

Jason Thorne (Reform UK)

Quarry Bank & Dudley Wood:

Simon Ballinger (Green Party)

Rob Clinton (Reform UK)

Errol Lawson (Conservative)

Jules Singh (Labour and Co-operative)

Faye Stafford (Liberal Democrats)

Sedgley:

Colin Drewery (Green Party)

Bill Etheridge (Conservative)

Tremaine Herbert (Labour)

Shaun Keasey (Reform UK)

John Slim (Liberal Democrats)

St James’s:

Carole Blackmore (Conservative)

Katherine Poole (Green Party)

Mollie Priest (Liberal Democrats)

Caroline Reid (Labour)

David Reynolds (Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition)

Ivor Robinson (Reform UK)

St Thomas’s:

Shakeela Bibi (Independent)

Chris Chivers (Reform UK)

Rob Johns (Liberal Democrats)

Muhammad Najeeb (Conservative)

Zia Ur Rehman Qari (Green Party)

Adeela Qayyum (Labour)

Upper Gornal & Woodsetton:

Zoe Bradley (Conservative)

Charlie Hilken (Green Party)

Mushtaq Hussain (Labour)

Marco Longhi (Reform UK)

Elaine Sheppard (Liberal Democrats)

Wollaston & Stourbridge Town:

Ruth Battersea (Green Party)

Lois Bramall (Liberal Democrats)

Marie Fields (Labour)

Linda Foster (Green Party)

Jason Griffin (Labour)

Steve Hancock (Conservative)

Kam Macleod (Reform UK)

Ken Moore (Freedom Alliance)

Richard Prosser (Conservative)

David Sheppard (Liberal Democrats)

Andrew Southall (Reform UK)

Wordsley North ward:

Keith Archer (Labour)

Christopher Bramall (Lib Dem)

Alex Hughes (Green Party)

Samuel Hussey (Reform UK)

Matt Rogers (Conservative)

Dave Woolley (Black Country Party)

Polling stations will be open from 7am until 10pm.