HERE is the full list of candidates standing in the Bolton Borough Council elections on May 3.

ASTLEY BRIDGE
Clive Atty (Lib Dem)
Joe Hayes (Lab)
* Stuart Lever (Con)

BRADSHAW
* Diana Brierley (Con)
Jim Cottam (Lab)
Steve Howarth (Lib Dem)
Anne Mumberson (Green)

BREIGHTMET
* John Byrne (Lab)
Edward Rae Hill (Lib Dem)
Lynne Hyland (Green)
Arthur Norris (Con)

BROMLEY CROSS
* Norman Critchley (Con)
Christine MacPherson (Lib Dem)
Liz Spencer (Green)
Anthony Muscat Terrible (Lab)

CROMPTON
Don Fairclough (Con)
Emma Scowcroft (Lab)
Anne Warren (Lib Dem)

FARNWORTH
Tariq Aziz (Lib Dem)
Jean Cottam (Lab)
Ria Greenhalgh (Green)
Ruth Kenny (Con)

GREAT LEVER
Wendy Connor (Lib Dem)
* Mohammad Idrees (Con)
Alan Johnson (Green)
Madeline Murray (Lab)

HALLIWELL
Martin Grindrod (Con)
Martin McLoughlin (Lib Dem)
* Linda Thomas (Lab)

HARPER GREEN
* Margaret Clare (Lab)
Dave Connor (Lib Dem)
Robert Tyler (Con)

HEATON & LOSTOCK
* Bob Allen (Con)
Jonathon Evans (Lib Dem)
John Gillatt (Lab)

HORWICH & BLACKROD
John Raymond Barrow (Con)
Peter McGeehan (Lib Dem)
Isabel Seddon (Lab)

HORWICH NORTH EAST
Kevan Jones (Lab)
* Robert Ronson (Lib Dem)
Stephen Wallan (Con)

HULTON * Phillip Ashcroft (Con)
Michael Francis (Lab)
Linden Greensitt (Lib Dem)

KEARSLEY
Diane Bamber (Con)
Guy Harkin (Lab)
* Margaret Rothwell (Lib Dem)

LITTLE LEVER & DARCY LEVER
Alwynne Cartmell (Green)
* Anthony Connell (Lab)
Rees Gibbon (Con)
Eric Hyde (Lib Dem)

RUMWORTH
* Ebrahim Adia (Lab)
Sandra Bridger (Lib Dem)
John (Jack) Heyes (Con)

SMITHILLS
Dennis Bray (Con)
Rachel Mann (Green)
James Shaw (Lab)*
Carole Swarbrick (Lib Dem)

TONGE WITH THE HAULGH
Anthony Backhouse (Veritas)
Nigel Ford (Con)
Rosalind Harasiwka (Lib Dem)
* Elaine Sherrington (Lab)
James Tomkinson (Green)
David Wood (BNP)

WESTHOUGHTON NORTH & CHEW MOOR
June Patricia Allen (Con)
Ronald Halliwell (Lib Dem)
* Arthur Price (Lab)
Laura Spencer (Green)

WESTHOUGHTON SOUTH
David Chadwick (Lab)
Eric Hyland (Green)
Pamela Rigby (Lib Dem)
Christine Wild (Con)

* Denotes sitting councillor.