THE names of the candidates standing in the borough’s elections have been published.
There will be 84 people contesting 25 in Wigan Council’s local elections on Thursday, May 3.
Polling stations will be available around the borough and there will be counts at Leigh Sports Village and Robin Park Leisure Centre in Wigan.
Three candidates will contest the Leigh East seat, two in the Leigh South ward and four in the Leigh West ward constituency.
Seats in Tyldesley, Astley and Mosley Common, Golborne and Lowton West, Lowton East will also be up for grabs.
Atherton, Atherleigh, Hindley and Hindley Green are four other areas up for the vote.
UKIP have issued a statement that it will not be putting any candidates forward in the local elections due to “organisational issues both nationally and locally”.
The party will be putting members forward for the 2019 elections though.
Here is the list of candidates of wards in the area the Journal covers:
Astley and Mosley Common
Richard Short- Conservative
Barry Taylor- Labour
Stuart Thomas- Lib Dems
Atherleigh
Paul Fairhurst- Conservative
Lorraine Gillon- Liberal Democrats
Debra Wailes- Labour
Antony Waite- Independent
Atherton
Karen Aldred- Labour
Marjorie Clayton- Conservative
Stuart Gerrard- Independent
Golborne and Lowton West
Susan Gambles- Labour
William Heaton- Independent
Gerard Houlton- Conservative
Hindley
Jim Ellis- Independent
Neil Hancox- Green Party
John Skipworth- Liberal Democrats
Jim Talbot- Labour
Margaret Winstanley- Conservative
Hindley Green
Jonathan Cartwright- Conservative
Paul Maiden- Independent
Gena Merrett- Labour and Co-operative
John Thomason- Liberal Democrats
Leigh East
John Dowsett- Liberal Democrats
Frederick Bown- Labour
Denise Young- Conversative
Leigh South
Charles Rigby- Labour
Connor Short- Conservative
Leigh West
Richard Houlton- Conservative
Natalie Smalley- Liberal Democrats
Peter Smith- Labour
Jayson Lomax-Hargreaves- Independent
Lowton East
Edward Houlton- Conversative
Garry Lloyd- Labour
Tyldesley
Julian Marsh- Independent
Joanne Marshall- Labour
David Stirzaker- Conservative
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