ONE third of the seats at the council are up for grabs at the election in May.
At least one councillor will be elected in each of the 25 wards in the borough.
Labour currently have a majority at the council with 57 councillors in total.
The Conservatives are no longer the main opposition group as more members joined the Independent Network in March, overtaking the Tories’ total of seven sitting councillors – down from eight due the death of one councillor last year.
Eight councillors now belong to the Independent Network, including all six Atherton and Bryn councillors with one in Hindley and one in Hindley Green.
Independent councillors Bob Brierley and Janet Brown are not part of a group.
There are 97 candidates from nine parties competing for 26 positions in total.
Conservative and Labour candidates will be standing in every council ward, with two candidates from each in Orrell where there are two seats available.
The Lib Dems have 23 candidates, but none in Astley Mosley Common or Ince.
There will be nine candidates described as Independent on the ballot paper with a further three Independent Network candidates in Atherleigh, Atherton and Hindley, one Shevington Independent and one Standish Independent.
Leigh, Atherton & Tyldesley Together will have six candidates standing in total.
There is one UKIP candidate and one Reform UK candidate in the borough.
Residents will also be voting for the position of Greater Manchester mayor.
Here’s a list of every candidate who will be on the ballot in Wigan on May 6:
Abram
David William Bowker – Independent
Beverley Anne Bridgwater – Conservative
Daniel Jack Simm – Liberal Democrats
Martyn Smethurst – Labour
Ashton
Danny Fletcher – Labour
Geoffrey Stephen Matthews – Liberal Democrats
Edward Francis Sturdy – Conservative
Aspull New Springs Whelley
Laura Jean Flynn – Labour
Andrew Julian Lee Holland – Liberal Democrats
John Arnold Hulme – Independent
Luke Christian Marsden – Conservative
Astley Mosley Common
David John Stirzaker – Conservative
Paula Anne Wakefield – Labour
Atherleigh
Paul Lambert Fairhurst – Conservative
Lorraine Gillon – Liberal Democrats
John Arthur Harding – Labour
Natasha Louise Hodgkinson – Independent Network
Zoë Irlam – Leigh, Atherton & Tyldesley Together
Atherton
Julie Ann Hilling – Labour
Jamie Hodgkinson – Independent Network
Emily Jane Siddall – Conservative
Quinton John Smith – Leigh, Atherton & Tyldesley Together
Bryn
Judith Atherton – Conservative
Mary Gwendoline Callaghan – Labour
Steve Jones – Independent
Denise Melling – Liberal Democrats
Douglas
Margaret Atherton – Conservative
Patricia Draper – Labour
Donald John Macnamara – Liberal Democrats
Golborne & Lowton West
Stanley Crook – Conservative
Yvonne Marie Klieve – Labour
Susan Jillian Spibey – Independent
Brian Edward Witt – Liberal Democrats
Hindley
Alan Leslie Baines – Independent
Paul John Blay – Labour
Hilda Bridget Byrne – Independent Network
John Charles Skipworth – Liberal Democrats
Mark Michael Temperton – Conservative
Hindley Green
Bob Brierley – Independent
Paul John Chapman – Conservative
James Thomas Palmer – Labour
Graham Trevor Suddick – Liberal Democrats
Ince
Allan Atherton – Conservative
Jordan James Gaskell – UKIP
David Trevor Molyneux – Labour
Leigh East
Trevor Barton – Independent
Keith Cunliffe – Labour
James Falle Geddes – Conservative
James Edward Morley – Leigh, Atherton & Tyldesley Together
Lewis David Parkin – Liberal Democrats
Leigh South
Kevin Anderson – Labour
Simon Paul Brooks – Liberal Democrats
Dave Fraser – Leigh, Atherton & Tyldesley Together
Joshua James Yates – Conservative
Leigh West
Sue Greensmith – Labour
Sharon-Lee Honey – Liberal Democrats
Gerard Joseph Houlton – Conservative
Jayson Michael Allan Lomax-Hargreaves – Leigh, Atherton & Tyldesley Together
Lowton East
Marie Elizabeth Cooper – Conservative
Garry Peter Lloyd – Labour
Christopher John Noon – Liberal Democrats
Orrell
Marjorie Clayton – Conservative
Joseph Christopher Saunders – Labour
Neil Duncan Stevenson – Liberal Democrats
Mark Ian Tebbutt – Labour
Stuart David Thomas – Liberal Democrats
Michael William Winstanley – Conservative
Pemberton
David John Burley – Liberal Democrats
Jean Margaret Peet – Conservative
Jeanette Prescott – Labour
Shevington with Lower Ground
Brian Craig Duff Crombie-Fisher – Liberal Democrats
Michael John Crosby – Labour
Gareth William Fairhurst – Shevington Independents
Gary Robinson – Conservative
Standish with Langtree Ward
Debbie Fairhurst – Standish Independents
Caroline Waddicor – Liberal Democrats
Raymond Whittingham – Conservative
Dave Wood – Labour
Tyldesley
Susan Atherton – Conservative
Jack Eiddon Davies – Liberal Democrats
James Anthony Fish – Reform UK
Julian David Marsh – Leigh, Atherton & Tyldesley Together
Antonino Panebianco – Independent
Nazia Tabussam Rehman – Labour
Wigan Central
Lawrence Hunt – Labour
Benjamin James Thomas – Liberal Democrats
Joe Worthington – Conservative
Wigan West
Ian Dyer – Liberal Democrats
Terrence William Halliwell – Labour
Marie Winstanley – Conservative
Winstanley
Paul Terence Kenny – Labour
Michael Colin Owens – Conservative
Robert Duncan Stevenson – Liberal Democrats
Worsley Mesnes
Danny Cooke – Independent
David Roland Hurst – Labour
John Parrott – Liberal Democrats
Cyril Pendlebury – Conservative
The polls open at 7am on Thursday, May 6 and will close at 10pm.
Residents in the city have until Monday, April 19 to register to vote and until Tuesday, April 20 to register for a postal vote.
Those who have not registered cannot vote in the elections.
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