List of North Kirklees candidates for May local elections
A third of Kirklees Council’s 69 seats are being contested – one in each of the borough’s 23 wards.
Voting will take place on May 22.
Elections for the European Parliament take place on the same day.
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Hide AdThe elections candidates for all the North Kirklees wards are listed below:
BATLEY EAST
Akhtar Mahmood (Labour, defending); Imtiaz Ameen (Conservative); Akooji Badat (Independent); Jonathan Heap (Lib Dem); Robert Reynolds (Green); Pete Robson (Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition).
BATLEY WEST
Susan Bell-Procter (Conservative); Garry Kitchin (Green); Stephen Leach (Lib Dem); Gwen Lowe (Labour, defending); John Rattigan (Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition).
BIRSTALL AND BIRKENSHAW
Amanda Davison (Labour); Megan Scholefield-Nicholson (Lib Dem); Elizabeth Smaje (Conservative, defending); Charlotte Stoyles (Green).
CLECKHEATON
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Hide AdJessica Berry (Green); Andrew Gray (Conservative); John Lawson (Lib Dem, defending); Pete Murphy (Labour).
DEWSBURY EAST
Greg Burrows (Ukip); Bernard Diskin (Lib Dem); Mark Eastwood (Conservative); Tony Kelsall (Green); Cathy Scott (Labour, defending).
DEWSBURY SOUTH
Masood Ahmed (Labour, defending); Stephen Bird (Lib Dem); Adrian Cruden (Green); Khizar Iqbal (Conservative); Shaun Maddox (English Democrat).
DEWSBURY WEST
Simon Hope (Green); Dennis Hullock (Lib Dem); Mumtaz Hussain (Labour, defending); Shehzad Hussain (Conservative).
HECKMONDWIKE
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Hide AdIan Bullock (Green); Viv Kendrick (Labour, defending); Josie Pugsley (Lib Dems); Robert Thornton (Conservative).
LIVERSEDGE AND GOMERSAL
Richard Burton (Green); Richard Farnhill (Lib Dem); David Hall (Conservative, defending); Catherine Pinder (Labour).
MIRFIELD
Nisar Choudhary (Lib Dem); Michael Hutchinson (Labour); Vivien Lees-Hamilton (Conservative, defending); Nick Whittingham (Green).