One third of the seats at Wigan 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.
