Next month will see 17 seats on St Helens Council up for grabs as the borough goes to the polls in May’s local elections.
The vote was postponed last year due to the pandemic, but can now go ahead this year with polls opening on May 6 - just under two weeks away.
The last time these seats were up for election, Labour won 15 of the 17 seats up for grabs today. Since then, two Labour councillors defected to the independents and a third was expelled from the party after it emerged he had been banned from teaching for amending his pupils' coursework.
Liberal Democrats and Conservative both currently control one ward each in St Helens and going into the election there are two vacant seats following the resignation of both councillors Gill Neal and Pam Howard in 2020.
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Polling stations open from 7am until 10pm on the day of the election and we've compiled a full list of candidates standing in the borough below.
You can vote in person at a polling station, by post or by proxy (nominating somebody to vote on your behalf).
The deadline to register to vote in person for this set of local elections was April 19. However, you can still register to vote by proxy until April 27 at 5pm.
Billinge and Seneley Green
Nancy Jane Ashcroft - Conservative
Dennis McDonnell - Labour
Sue Rahman - Green
Blackbrook
Anthony James Burns - Labour
Melanie Ann Marie Lee - Conservative
Emma Carolyn Van Der Burg - Green
Bold
Stuart Barton - Labour
Andrew Donnelly - Green
Allen John Makin - Independent
Brian Thomas Spencer - Liberal Democrat
Barbara Evelyn Woodcock - Conservative
Earlestown
Jeanette Susan Banks - Labour
Allan Albert Dockerty - Conservative
Terry Maguire - Independent
Paula Halina Pietrzak - Green
Charlie Preston - Labour
Eccleston
Andy Davidson - Labour
James Forshaw - Conservative
Teresa Veronica Sims - Liberal Democrat
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Haydock
Judith Margaret Collins - Conservative
Linda Mary Collins - The For Britain Movement
Paul Robert Hooton - Green
Paul Michael John Lynch - Labour
Moss Bank
Deb Connor - Green
Tracy Paula Dickinson - Labour
Margaret Hilda Harvey - Conservative
Dave Kent - Liberal Democrat
Newton
Phil Cass - Liberal Democrat
Lisa Cunliffe - Conservative
Seve Gomez-Aspron - Labour
John Michael Richards - Green
Parr
Andy Bowden - Labour
Martin William Ellison - Independent
Michael Skidmore - Green
Madeleine Patricia Wilcock - Conservative
Rainford
David Anders - Green
John Case - Conservative
Julian Kevin Hanley - Labour
Rainhill
Barrie Andrew Grunewald - Labour
Phillip Lee Speakman - Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
Henry Spriggs - Conservative
Kate Elizabeth Stevenson - Independent
Sutton
Frederick Barrett - Liberal Democrat
Mackenzie France - Conservative
Stephen Howell Granville - Green
David Edward Hawley - Independent
Anthony Albert Johnson - Labour
Thatto Heath
Nova Louise Charlton - Labour
Terence Stephen Price - Green
David Leslie Skeech - Conservative
Town Centre
Iris Brown - Conservative
Alison Jill Donnelly - Green
Mark Joseph Hitchen - Independent
Glynn Lloyd Jones - Social Democratic Party
Anne Helen McCormack - Labour
Tex Oakes - The For Britain Movement
West Park
Richard William Barton - Conservative
Jess Northey - Green
Damien Patrick O'Connor - Labour
Windle
Lynn Susan Clarke - Labour
John Phillip Cunliffe - Conservative
Francis Joseph Williams - Green
