TRAFFORD will go to the polls next month with a third of its seats up for grabs.
One seat in each of the 21 wards is being contested on Thursday, May 2, with 101 candidates standing across the borough.
Of the seats being contested Labour currently hold eight and the Conservatives 13.
The Lib Dems and Green Party hold two seats each but neither party will face the public vote this time around.
There are two Independent candidates standing for election, Sandra Taylor in Hale Barns, and Stephen Farndon in Broadheath ward.
Neil Taylor is the only Liberal Party candidate fighting to secure a seat in Timperley.
While UKIP is fielding 12 candidates across the borough.
However, more then half of the Tory candidates up for re-election this year have opted to stand down.
Long-standing councillor Michael Young has represented Altringham since 2006 has decided not to stand, however, his wife, Patrica, will be defending her Hale Central seat.
Bowdon ward councillor Michael Hyman and Davyhulme West councillor John Riley, who collectively have clocked up three decades of public service, also plan to retire.
While Hale Barns councillor Bernard Sharp, elected in 2004, will not be defending his seat, however, he had planned to stand as an Independent but withdrew the nomination.
Other Tory councillors standing down are David Hopps, who represents Brooklands, and Davyhulme East councillor Mark Cawdrey.
Broadheath councillor Stephen Anstee, elected in 2015, announced his departure from politics last year — and cited family reasons as the cause.
While Village ward councillor Laura Evans has quit the borough, but not local politics, as she has been selected as the Conservative parliamentary candidate for Wirral West.
Husband Nathan Evans, however, will still serve as a Timperley ward councillor.
Labour’s Ejaz Malik, who has represented Clifford ward since 2004, is also stepping down.
Last year, Labour brought 14 years of Conservative rule to an end when it wrestled away four of its wards and tipped the council into no overall control, with 30 seats to the Tories’ 29.
Neither party had the majority of 32 seats needed to assume overall control, which forced Labour into signing a 10-point coalition deal with the Liberal Democrats.
Trafford was the last blue patch on Greater Manchester’s map before it was wiped out by Labour.
This year, however, the political landscape isn’t expected to change quite so dramatically, but the swathe of Conservative councillors stepping down may tip the balance further into Labour’s favour.
Here’s a full list of candidates standing in Trafford elections:
Altrincham
Ged Carter – Labour Party
Martin Harold – Liberal Democrats
Angela Stone – Conservative Party
Michael Welton – Green Party
Ashton Upon Mersey
Martin Elliott – Liberal Democrats
Ben Hartley – Labour Party
Brian Johnson – UKIP
Caroline Robertson-Brown – Green Party
Mike Whetton – Conservative Party
Bowdon
Claire Churchill – Conservative Party
Thomas Hague – Labour Party
Deborah Leftwich – Green Party
Ludo Tolhurst-Cleaver – Liberal Democrats
Broadheath
Serena Carr – Labour Party
Stephen Farndon – Independent
Daniel Gresty – Green Party
Christopher Marritt – Liberal Democrats
Norine Napier – UKIP
Shengke Zhi – Conservative Party
Brooklands
Pauline Cliff – Liberal Democrats
Michelle McGrath – Conservative Party
Tony Nayler – UKIP
Joe Ryan – Green Party
Rose Thompson – Labour Party
Bucklow-St Martins
Lyall Ainscow – Conservative Party
Andrew Beaumont – UKIP
Rodrigo Capucho – Green Party
Stephen Power – Liberal Democrats
Aidan Williams – Labour Party
Clifford
Akilah Akinola – Labour Party
Alex Finney – Conservative Party
Jess Mayo – Green Party
Dave Nicholson – Liberal Democrats
Davyhulme East
Dawn Carberry-Power -Liberal Democrats
Daniel Kupusarevic – Conservative Party
Gary Regan – UKIP
Steven Tennant-Smythe – Green Party
Barry Winstanley – Labour Party
Davyhulme West
Karina Carter – Labour Party
Lisa Cook – Conservative Party
Ram Nachiappan – Green Party
Paul Regan – UKIP
Ged Zuk – Liberal Democrats
Flixton
James Cook – UKIP
Jonathan Coupe – Conservative Party
Shirley Procter – Labour Party
Ian Sutherland – Liberal Democrats
Tim Woodward – Green Party
Gorse Hill
Mike Cordingley – Labour Party
Adam Dean – Liberal Democrats
Seamus Martin – UKIP
Gareth Parker – Conservative Party
Jennie Wadsworth – Green Party
Hale Barns
Maggie Boysen – Liberal Democrats
Jessica Hession – Green Party
Dave Morgan – Conservative Party
Ian Royle – UKIP
Sandra Taylor – Independent
Barbara Twiney – Labour Party
Hale Central
Will Frazz – Liberal Democrats
Stephen Leicester – Green Party
Benjamin Slater – Labour Party
Patricia Young – Conservative Party
Longford
Anne Duffield – Labour Party
Anna Fryer – Liberal Democrats
Adam Miya – Conservative Party
Margaret Westbrook – Green Party
Priory
Kevin Grime – UKIP
Louis Marks – Conservative Party
Nicholas Robertson-Brown – Green Party
Briony Stephenson – Liberal Democrats
Andrew Western – Labour Party
Sale Moor
Joanne Bennett – Labour Party
Jane Leicester – Green Party
Matt Leigh – Conservative Party
Simon Wright – Liberal Democrats
St Mary’s
Jill Axford – Labour Party
Daniel Bunting – Conservative Party
Kathy Mason – UKIP
James McGlashan – Green Party
Alison Smith – Liberal Democrats
Stretford
Stephen Anthony Adshead – Labour Party
Simon Lepori – Liberal Democrats
Si Leung – Conservative Party
Liz O’Neill – Green Party
Timperley
Angela Bruer-Morris – Conservative Party
Jadwiga Leigh – Green Party
Meena Minnis – Liberal Democrats
Pauline Royle – UKIP
Neil Taylor – The Liberal Party
Urmston
Krissy Douglas – UKIP
Shaun Ennis – Liberal Democrats
Jo Harding – Labour Party
Lijo John – Local Conservatives
Luciya Whyte – Green Party
Village
Waseem Hassam – Labour Party
Darren Meacher – Conservative Party
Julian Newgrosh – Liberal Democrats
Angela O’Neill – UKIP
Robert Raikes – Green Party
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