THE full list of candidates for this year’s local elections has been announced.

Aspiring politicians from all the major parties will have their names on the ballot on Thursday, May 22.

The Bolton News will be providing extensive coverage of the elections before, during and after the vote, which takes place on the same day as the European elections.

ASTLEY BRIDGE
Clive Richard Atty (Lib Dem)
Ben Deed (Green)
Harry Lamb (UKIP)
Stuart William Murray (Lab)
John Walsh (Cons)

BRADSHAW
Daniel Bolton (Green)
Mudasir Dean (Cons)
Paul Fitzpatrick (Lab)
Gaby McDowall (Lib Dem)
Arthur Norris (UKIP)

BREIGHTMET
Lynda Jean Byrne (Lab)
Laura Diggle (Green)
Clare Heyes (Cons)
Stephen Frederick Howarth (Lib Dem)
Kathleen Mary Kavanagh (UKIP)

BROMLEY CROSS
Chris Atty (Lib Dem)
David Wells Greenhalgh (Cons)
Colette Harkin (Lab)
Lynda Rosewell (UKIP)

CROMPTON
Sufrana Bashir-Ismail (Lab)
George Stanley Bown (UKIP)
Ryan Patrick Haslam (Cons)
Pam Humphreys (Independent)
Anne Sanders Warren (Lib Dem)

FARNWORTH
Jeff Armstrong (UKIP)
Doug Bagnall (Lib Dem)
Trevor Bonfield (Green)
Aidan Meagan (Cons)
Noel Spencer (Lab)

GREAT LEVER
Mohammed Ayub (Lab)
David William Collins (Green)
Rebekah Fairhurst (Lib Dem)
Joseph Thomas Holt (Independent)
Jay Patel (Conservative)
Dot Sexton (UKIP)

HALLIWELL
Jolyon Horton Coombs (Cons)
Francine Godfrey (Lib Dem)
Ian David McHugh (Green)
Andrew Mckenzie (Independent)
Leo Taylor (UKIP)
Akhtar Zaman (Lab)

HARPER GREEN
Wendy Connor (Lib Dem)
Mike Francis (Lab)
Geoff Hamlett (UKIP)
Kathy Sykes (Green)
Rob Tyler (Cons)

HEATON AND LOSTOCK
John William Gillatt (Labour and Cooperative Party)
Christine Joyce Macpherson (Lib Dem)
Hannah Louise Middleshaw (Green)
Colin Shaw (Cons)
Stephen Thomas (UKIP)

HORWICH AND BLACKROD
Alan Bury (Lab)
Keith Michael Cocker (Green)
Carol Ann Forshaw (Cons)
Daniel Clifford Haslam (Cons)
Bob Horsefield (UKIP)
Lynne McCartin (Lib Dem)
Stephen Pickup (Lab)
Lynn Natalie Rock (Lib Dem)

HORWICH NORTH EAST
Anne Barbara Galloway (Cons)
Peter McGeehan (UKIP)
Kevin Peter McKeon (Lab)
Rod Riesco (Green)
Stephen Michael Rock (Lib Dem Focus Team)

HULTON
David Charles Cooper (Lib Dem)
Andy Morgan (Cons)
Diane Parkinson (UKIP)
Shafaqat Shaikh (Lab)
James Tomkinson (Green)

KEARSLEY
Derek Burrows (Lab)
Simon Paul Colley (Independent)
Mark Joseph Cunningham (UKIP)
Sandra Macneill (Cons)
Margaret Patricia Rothwell (Lib Dem)

LITTLE LEVER AND DARCY LEVER
Alwynne Cartmell (Green)
Maureen Connell (Lab)
Rees Gibbon (Cons)
Eric John Hyde (Lib Dem Focus Team)
Paul Richardson (UKIP)

RUMWORTH
Jack Heyes (Cons)
Ismail Ibrahim (Lab)
Alan Johnson (Green)
Geoffrey David Kay (UKIP)
Jaleh Salari (Lib Dem)

SMITHILLS
Christine Flanigan (Cons)
Aaron Hepworth (UKIP)
Andrew Martin (Lib Dem Focus Team)
Richard Alexander Middleshaw (Green)
Kevin Patrick Morris (Lab)

TONGE WITH THE HAULGH
Derek Fisher (UKIP)
Paul Anthony Harasiwka (Lib Dem)
Eric Thomas Hyland (Left Unity)
Zoe Jennifer Catherine Kirk-Robinson (Cons)
Hafsa Patel (Green)
Nick Peel (Lab)
Dorothee Sayers (BNP)

WESTHOUGHTON NORTH AND CHEW MOOR     
Martyn Andrew Cox (Cons)
Derek John Gradwell (Lib Dem)
Anne Graham (Lab)
Joan Johnson (UKIP)
Heather Rylance (Green)
Jack Speight (Independent)

WESTHOUGHTON SOUTH
Derek John Bullock (English Democrat)
Kevan Jones (Lab)
Stephen Wallen (Cons)
Les Wareing (UKIP)
David Arthur Wilkinson (Lib Dem)