Kirklees Council elections 2026: List of candidates in Dewsbury, Batley, Spen and Mirfield as voters go to the polls

This year is a whole-council election, which means all 69 seats across the 23 wards are being contested at the same time.

Voters have three votes and can choose up to three candidates standing in their ward.

Following a review of ward boundaries by the boundary commission, some ward names and boundaries have changed. This means some residents may now be in a different ward or may need to vote at a different polling station than in previous elections.

All the information voters need is set out on their polling card.

Voters are reminded to bring an accepted form of photo ID.

The polls are open today (Thursday) from 7am until 10pm.

The results are expected to be announced tomorrow (Friday).

Here are the full lists of candidates standing in each of the wards in North Kirklees. Candidates are listed in alphabetical order by surname.

Batley East

Shameem Akhtar (Green)

Raymond Bray (Conservative)

Fouz Ul Azeem Butt (Labour)

Aziz Daji (Independent)

Andrea Gill (Lib Dem)

Richard Edwin Huddleston (Reform UK)

Ibrar Hussain (Green)

Akhtar Kasia (Independent)

Rosemary Glover Marchington (Lib Dem)

Ansar Ali Mirza (Lib Dem)

Bevis Jeremy North (Reform UK)

Clive Patrick (Conservative)

Murray Purkis (Green)

Haneef Moinuddin Shaik (Labour)

Philip Robert Smith (Conservative)

Gwendolyn Ann Walker (Reform UK)

Sheikh Rashid Wasim (Labour)

Habiban Zaman (Independent)

Batley West

Shujjat Ali (Lib Dem)

Khalid Amin (Green)

Khuram Amjad (Independent)

Drew Atkins (Conservative)

George Baker (Green)

Patrycja Bartosinska (Lib Dem)

Jack Anthony Brooker (Green)

Senada Dervisevic (Community Alliance Kirklees)

Yusra Hussain (Independent)

Zahid Kahut (Independent)

Keith Oldroyd (Reform UK)

Shabir Pandor (Labour)

Christian Rooney (Reform UK)

William Rowlands (Conservative)

John Stead (Reform UK)

Kimberley Sharon Thirkill (Labour)

Megan West (Labour)

Stuart Woodhead (Lib Dem)

Sami Ul Haq Yaqoob (Conservative)

Birstall and Birkenshaw

Tahir Akram (Green)

Bernard Thomas Disken (Lib Dem)

Richard Dod (Lib Dem)

Jamie Conor Foster (Green)

Lorna Maria Goldman (Labour)

Corey Patrick Hayes (Green)

Philip Anthony James (Reform UK)

Keith Mallinson (Reform UK)

Adrian Reid (Reform UK)

Joshua Connor Sheard (Conservative)

Liz Smaje (Conservative)

Mark Stephen Thompson (Conservative)

Louise Mary Walsh (Lib Dem)

Cheya Amélie Watson (Labour)

Elaine Wilkes (Labour)

Cleckheaton

Erica Susan Amende (Labour)

Mohammed Babar (Green)

Piers John Briggs (Conservative)

Adeel Feroz (Labour)

Andrew Lyndon Gray (Conservative)

William James Harrison (Reform UK)

Michael Robert Howard (Reform UK)

John Craig Lawson (Lib Dem)

Michael Lockwood (Reform UK)

Isabelle Frances Cranfield Maddox (Green)

Andrew Charles Pinnock (Lib Dem)

Kathryn Mary Pinnock (Lib Dem)

Kay Belinda Quantrill (Labour)

Tony Veverka (Conservative)

Zac Williamson (Green)

Richard Yeoman (Reform UK)

Dewsbury East

Jon Robert Bloom (Lib Dem)

Logan Bramwell (Independent)

Eric Stuart Butterworth (Reform UK)

Jack Cambridge (Green)

Mudassar Chaudhrey (Labour)

Ibiknule Farajimakin (Conservative)

Eric Firth (Labour)

Danielle Forsyth (Community Alliance Kirklees)

Graham Michael France (Reform UK)

Carolyn Heath (Conservative)

Dennis Hullock (Lib Dem)

Ednan Hussain (Lib Dem)

Karam Hussain (Community Alliance Kirklees)

Maciej Kapsa (Reform UK)

Michael Richard Keddie (Labour)

Clare Patricia Lindley (Green)

Hassan Raza (Conservative)

Gideon Barry Richards (Green)

Cathy Scott (Community Alliance Kirklees)

Dewsbury South

Masood Ahmed (Independent)

Mohammed Ali (Labour)

Imtiaz Ali Ameen (Labour)

Ismail Yusuf Bhana (Independent)

Stephen John Bird (Lib Dem)

Chrissy Bloom (Lib Dem)

Hanifa Darwan (Independent)

Michael Kenneth Fortune (Reform UK)

Mohammed Abubakar Haneef (Green)

Ebony Riann Johnson (Green)

Christopher Kennedy (Reform UK)

Shaun Maddox (Independent)

Jackie Ramsay (Labour)

John Edward Rossington (Lib Dem)

Pamela Joyce Thorne (Conservative)

Claire Voyce (Conservative)

Ryan Ward (Reform UK)

Myste Brooke Webster (Green)

Marjorie Wheelhouse (Conservative)

Soyeb Yusuf (Independent)

Dewsbury West

Ammar Anwar (Independent)

Waheed Anwar (Lib Dem)

Dawn Jeannette Armstrong (Reform UK)

Nicholas Bowett (Conservative)

Tanisha Bramwell (Independent)

Simon John Cope (Green)

John Cowan (Conservative)

Susan Dolman (Reform UK)

Irslan Ishtiaq (Lib Dem)

Tariq Khan (Lib Dem)

Khalid Patel (Independent)

Mussarat Shaheen Pervaiz (Labour)

Basharat Mahmood Rafiq (Labour)

Ateeque Ur Rehman Saddique (Labour)

Edward Christopher Sampson (Green)

Maureen Nancy Sykes (Conservative)

Jonathan George Tolan (Green)

Lesley Ann Turner (Reform UK)

Heckmondwike

Ali Arshad (Independent)

Aafaq Butt (Labour)

Lee Konrad Cliff (Reform UK)

Lyndsey Hall (Conservative)

Glennis-Anne Harrison (Reform UK)

Simon Holbrook (Reform UK)

Viv Kendrick (Labour)

Liz King (Green)

Naeem Latif (Independent)

Gill Long (Lib Dem)

Stephen James Long (Lib Dem)

Amy Loughenbury (Lib Dem)

Clare Naughton (Independent)

Josie Pugsley (Lib Dem)

John Sykes (Conservative)

Simon Phillip Thirkill (Labour)

Benjamin Michael Wainman (Green)

Joanne Wallace-Thompson (Conservative)

Muhammad Anwar Zahid (Independent)

Liversedge and Gomersal

Jane Barraclough (Reform UK)

Matt Clarke (Conservative)

Daniel Francis Michael Friend (Green)

Maya Elizabeth Friend (Green)

David James Hall (Conservative)

George Mason Hall (Labour)

Caroline Jane Holt (Conservative)

Tracey Louise King (Independent)

Susan Jeanette Maxfield (Reform UK)

Andrew Malcolm McCaig (Lib Dem)

Sa'Dia Mosaddeq (Green)

Hazel Anne Seidel (Labour)

David Peter Snee (Lib Dem)

Nicholas Eugene Whittingham (Green)

Chris Williams (Lib Dem)

Sarah Louise Wood (Reform UK)

Ralph Wright (Labour)

Mirfield

Martyn Bolt (Conservative)

Richard Mark Dewhirst (Green)

James Howard Fishwick (Labour)

Mark Hamilton (Conservative)

Vivien Lees-Hamilton (Conservative)

Matthew Maude (Reform UK)

James Steven O'Leary (Reform UK)

Carl Richard Pickering (Reform UK)

Shanta Pinnock (Labour)

Debby Plummer (Green)

Claire Louise Scargill (Lib Dem)

Thomas Charles Waterhouse (Lib Dem)

Jessica Rose May White (Labour)

Catherine Helen Whittingham (Green)

Andrew Hartley Wilkinson (Lib Dem)