There are 178 candidates standing in local and mayoral elections in Salford.
All 60 council seats are up for grabs at this year's election as well as the roles of Salford and Greater Manchester mayors, making it one of the biggest ever.
Labour currently have a majority at the council with 50 councillors in total.
The Conservatives are the main opposition group with eight councillors.
Irlam councillor Darren Goulden is currently the only independent in Salford.
But electoral areas are changing this year with some new wards created and the boundaries changed, which means all 60 seats are up for grabs in May.
Here’s a list of every candidate who will be on the ballot in Salford on May 6.
Barton and Winton
- Jacob Barden – Conservative
- Paula Boshell – Labour
- Anthony Ian Duke – Liberal Democrats
- David Anthony Lancaster – Labour
- John Mullen – Labour
- Janet Reygan – Conservative
- Tracey Ann Roberts – Conservative
- Jenna Louise Sayer – Green
Blackfriars and Trinity
- Patience Assam – Conservative
- Shahzadi Begum – Conservative
- Stephen Andrew Coen – Labour
- Zak D'Amelio – Independent
- Steve Gillian – Liberal Democrats
- Jane Elizabeth Hamilton – Labour
- Wendy Kay Olsen – Green
- Christopher Seed – Green
- Bernard James Treves Brown – Liberal Democrats
- Scott James Turner-Preece – Liberal Democrats
- Raymond Michael John Walker – Labour
- Michael Wharton – Green Party
Boothstown and Ellenbrook
- Diana Joy Battersby – Green
- Sebastian Biesiadzinski – Liberal Democrats
- Ian Leslie Chisnall – Liberal Democrats
- Bob Clarke – Conservative
- Gizella Katalin Hughes – Liberal Democrats
- Teresa Pepper – Labour
- Cameron Robinson – Labour
- Charlie Rowley – Labour
- Les Turner – Conservative
- Darren Ward – Conservative
Broughton
- Maria Brabiner – Labour
- Bernard Darrell Goldfine – Conservative
- David Jones – Green
- Jim King – Labour
- Paul Chibuzor Adimabua Mebeze – Conservative
- John David Merry – Labour
- Deklan Ronald Parry – Liberal Democrats
- Aftab Sabir – Conservative
Cadishead and Lower Irlam Ward
- Jan Meades-Smith – Conservative
- Andrew John Miller – Conservative
- Lewis Eric Nelson –Labour
- Dave Pike – Core Independents
- Hannah Jane Robinson-Smith – Labour
- Joan Walsh – Labour
Claremont
- Barbara Anne Bentham – Labour
- Mary Ferrer – Independent
- John Brian Frederick Grant – Liberal Democrats
- Jonathan Grosskopf – Conservative
- Jackie Mountaine – Conservative
- Patricia Murphy – Liberal Democrats
- Jake Overend – Liberal Democrats
- Michael Thomas Pevitt – Labour
- Neil Andrew Reynolds – Labour
- Myrella Saunders – Conservative
- Robert James Stephenson – Green
Eccles
- Sharmina August – Labour
- David Simon Cawdrey – Conservative
- Karl Craig – Conservative
- Sally Griffiths – Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
- Clive Peter Hamilton – Green
- Donna-Maree Louise Humphery – Womens Equality Party
- Alima Husain – Conservative
- Mike McCusker – Labour
- John Howard McLellan – Liberal Democrats
- Nathaniel Djangmah Tetteh – Labour
Higher Irlam and Peel Green
- Edson Paulo Pais Ferreira – Conservative
- Darren John Goulden – Core Independents
- Paula Ann Goulden – Core Independents
- Javaid Hussain – Conservative
- Roger Jones – Labour
- Tracy Kelly – Labour
- Nigel Kenneth Perry – Core Independents
- Peter Taylor – Labour
Kersal and Broughton Park
- Yolande Noelle Amana-Ghola – Labour
- Azmat Husain – Conservative
- Ari Leitner – Conservative
- Jane Mary Ransley – Green
- Mishal Saeed – Labour
- Arnie Saunders – Conservative
- Roseanna Wain – Labour
- Avrohom Yitzchok Walter – Liberal Democrats
Little Hulton
- Dorothy Chapman – Conservative
- Kate Lewis – Labour
- Adrees Masood – Conservative
- Stuart Michael Oxbrow – Green
- Rob Sharpe – Labour
- Colette Mary Weir – Labour
Ordsall
- Thomas Rhys Balcombe – Liberal Democrats
- Tanya Burch – Labour
- Paul Nicholas Cooper – Liberal Democrats
- Lynn Croden – Conservative
- Tim Ilett – Conservative
- Ray Mashiter – Labour
- Nicola Smith – Green
- John David Walsh – Labour
Pendlebury and Clifton
- Damian Craig Bailey – Labour
- Gary Ronald Betreen – Conservative
- Sam Hall – Conservative
- Nick Kahn – Conservative
- Sophia Linden – Labour
- Jonathan David Marsden – Independent
- Peter Mulleady – Green
- Barry Warner – Labour
- Gareth Watkins – Liberal Democrats
Pendleton and Charlestown
- Michele Barnes – Labour
- George Walter Broadley – Unspecified
- Avrohom Shloime Lederberger – Conservative
- Samantha Elizabeth McAntagart – Conservative
- Andrew Nadin – Green
- Wilson Nkurunziza – Labour
- John Robert Nuttall – Liberal Democrats
- John David Warmisham – Labour
- Oliver Robin Youd – Unspecified
Quays
- Bryn Coombe – Liberal Democrats
- Ann-Marie Humphreys – Labour
- Samina Mateen Khan – Conservative
- Wade Majid – Conservative
- Lucy Elizabeth Masters – Green
- Jake Scott Rowland – Labour
- David Robert Semple – Conservative
- James Colin Thomas – Green
- Phil Tresadern – Labour
- Alex Warren – Liberal Democrats
- Alexander Wynne – Liberal Democrats
Swinton and Wardley
- Christopher John Cunliffe – Conservative
- Jim Dawson – Labour
- Robert John Frazer – Conservative
- Bill Hinds – Labour
- Ian McKinlay – Liberal Democrats
- Andrew Olsen – Independent
- Gina Claire Reynolds – Labour
Swinton Park
- Howard Saul Balkind – Green
- Christopher Barnes – Independent
- Danny Brookes – Conservative
- Jim Cammell – Labour
- Stuart James Dickman – Labour
- Heather Dawn Fletcher – Labour
- Derek Meades – Conservative
- Joe O'Neill – Independent
- Joe Oliver – Conservative
- Kenneth William Thompson – Liberal Democrats
Walkden North
- Frederick Roy Battersby – Green
- Sammie Bellamy – Labour
- Adrian Brocklehurst – Labour
- Jon Carlyle – Conservative
- Jessica Froome Sutherland – Liberal Democrats
- Craig Thompson – Conservative
- Jack Leslie Youd – Labour
Walkden South
- Joshua Mark Brooks – Labour
- Lewis Croden – Conservative
- Thomas Matthew Dylan – Green
- Jason Thomas Gallagher – Conservative
- Susan Lewis – Liberal Democrats
- Chris Midgley – Conservative
- Margaret Ann Morris – Labour
- Irfan Syed – Labour
Weaste and Seedley
- Philip Gerard Cusack – Labour
- Barrie Michael Fallows – Independent
- Andrew Markham – Liberal Democrats
- Michael Richman – Conservative
- Alexis Murura Shama – Labour
- Madeline Wade – Labour
Worsley and Westwood Park
- Christopher Bertenshaw – Green
- James Karl Blessing – Liberal Democrats
- Tony Davies – Labour
- Karen Margaret Garrido – Conservative
- Robin John Garrido – Conservative
- Ben Grogan – Labour
- Adam Kealey – Conservative
- Michelle Anne Mullen – Labour
- Stuart Michael Robbins – Liberal Democrats
- Daniel Lee Wells – Liberal Democrats
The polls open at 7am on Thursday, May 6 and close at 10pm.
Residents in the city now 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.
