Bradford local elections May 2026 – all 458 candidates standing

A total of 30 wards are up for election in the city

The 2026 local elections are fast approaching this year with candidates set to stand across the city.

In Bradford, 30 wards are up for grabs this year, with candidates all competing to be elected to the council. The election will take place on Thursday, May 7, with all 90 council seats up for election due to the recent boundary review.

Three councillors will be selected for each ward, with the candidate in first place elected for four years, the candidate in second for two years, and the candidate in third for one year. From 2027, each election will be for one councillor for each ward.

Here is everyone standing for election across the city of Bradford in this year’s local elections.

Airedale

• George William Buckley – Conservative Party
• Val Carroll – Labour Party
• Raph Cohn – Conservative Party
• Michael John Dyson – Liberal Democrats
• Peter John Kaye – Yorkshire Party
• Daniel James Keenan – Reform UK
• Nathen James Keenan – Reform UK
• Peter Benedict Kirk – Conservative Party
• Linda Macro – Reform UK
• Wendy Neville – Labour Party
• Alexander Robinson – United Kingdom Indepedence Party
• Janet Russell – Green Party
• Jan Smithies – Labour Party
• Caroline Whitaker – Green Party
• Neil Whitaker – Green Party

Baildon

• Joe Ashton – Independent
• Alekss Belskis – Conservative Party
• Simon Bullock – Green Party
• Sam Clifford-Hassan – Labour Party
• Debbie Davies – Conservative Party
• Gill Dixon – Labour Party
• Carl Dunk – Green Party
• Ian Peter Eglin – Reform UK
• Susan Ann Elliott – Liberal Democrats
• David Michael Ford – Conservative Party
• Jamie Izzard – Reform UK
• Paul Anthony Vaughan – Labour Party
• Michael John Ward – Reform UK
• Elsie Watson – Green Party

Bingley East

• Max Preston Blackwell – Reform UK
• Stuart Alan Brown – Reform UK
• Rob Eagle – Green Party
• Jane Elgar – Labour Party
• Andrew David Fenton – Conservative Party
• Susan Fricker – Labour Party
• James Andrew Gill – Conservative Party
• Derrick John Hodgson – Reform UK
• Ben Pickles – Labour Party
• Jordan Robertshaw-Jowett – Green Party
• Peter Russell – Liberal Democrats
• Jeremy Thackray – Green Party
• Alexander Richard Vann – Social Democratic Party
• Joe Wheatley – Independent
• Bradley Jake Whittingham – Conservative Party

Bingley West

• Falak Naz Ahmed – Conservative Party
• Tony Alderson – Labour Party
• Cath Bacon – Green Party
• Helen Baranowski – Liberal Democrats
• John Brazendale – Green Party
• Rachael Drucquer – Green Party
• Bev Ford – Reform UK
• Jenny Kimber – Labour Party
• Sean Bernard Maguire – Reform UK
• Christopher James Peel – Reform UK
• George Scaife – Labour Party
• Paul Shkurka – Social Democratic Party
• Paul Gerald Sullivan – Conservative Party
• Geoff Winnard – Conservative Party

Bolton & Undercliffe

• Muhammad Afzal – Conservative Party
• Jon Barras – Reform UK
• Rajdeep Kaur Bhatti – Your Bradford Independent Group
• Suhail Choudhry – Labour Party
• Safeer Hussain Ghori – Conservative Party
• Bruce Gulland – Green Party
• Julie Humphreys – Labour Party
• Helen Love – Green Party
• Md Zafar Niaz – Labour Party
• Chris Norton – Reform UK
• Imtiaz Sabir – Your Bradford Independent Group
• Benjamin James Senior – Liberal Democrats
• Tasaver Hussain Syed – Conservative Party
• Andrew Tetley – Reform UK
• David Ward – Your Bradford Independent Group
• Iarlaithe Ward – Green Party

Bowling & Barkerend

• Mukhtar Ali – Your Bradford Independent Group
• Sakib Ali – Your Bradford Independent Group
• Wendy Elaine Barras – Reform UK
• Bernard Blessington – Reform UK
• Sadaf Dar – Green Party
• Malik Farouq – Conservative Party
• Mark William Hall – Reform UK
• Rizwana Jamil – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Yakubu Mandafiya John – Conservative Party
• Hassan Uzzaman Khan – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Imran Ahmed Khan – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Sangeeta Kauser Khan – Conservative Party
• Gavin Lee – Green Party
• Howard Middleton – Liberal Democrats
• Gordon North – Green Party
• Mazeena Zaki – Your Bradford Independent Group

Bradford Moor

• Adil Afzal – Green Party
• Riaz Ahmed – Liberal Democrats
• Ibrar Ali – Your Bradford Independent Group
• Muhammad Ashraf – Conservative Party
• Ijaz Ahmed Choudhary – Conservative Party
• Neil Clifford Ford – Reform UK
• Jafrul Kabir Gazi – Liberal Democrats
• Gareth Ingham – Reform UK
• Zafar Iqbal – Labour Party
• Wajid Jahangir – Labour Party
• Raja Shahzaib Khan – Liberal Democrats
• Diane McInnes – Green Party
• Bushra Parveen – Conservative Party
• Roger Pinto-Smith – Reform UK
• Andy Pickford – Green Party
• Ushman Shabir – Your Bradford Independent Group
• Mohammad Shafiq – Labour Party

City

• Majid Ali – Your Bradford Independent Group
• Sundas Ali – Your Bradford Independent Group
• Nazam Azam – Labour Party
• Pollyanna Greene-Wright – Conservative Party
• Mohammed Haleem – Green Party
• Maureen Patricia Harrison – Reform UK
• Paul Hogan – Reform UK
• Sajawal Hussain – Labour Party
• Shakeela Jan Lal – Labour Party
• Tariq Mahmood – Liberal Democrats
• Tayyeb Munir -Conservative Party
• Mohammad Naeem – Independent
• Alhassan Osman – Conservative Party
• Bahlal Khalid Saleem – Independent
• Rizwan Saleem – Your Bradford Independent Group
• Shazia Sheikh – Green Party
• Simon Smith – Reform UK
• Saeeka Tabassum – Independent
• Matthew Tadych – Green Party

Clayton & Fairweather Green

• Nabeela Abid – Your Independent Group
• Judith Brooksbank – Liberal Democrats
• Richard Brown – Reform UK
• Daniel Devaney – Reform UK
• Sinead Engel – Labour Party
• Sadiq Hameed – Green Party
• John Hudson – Conservative Party
• Mozalfa Ilyas – Labour Party
• Kate Lawyon – Conservative Party
• Waqas Mirza – Your Bradford Independent Group
• Mohammed Nazam – Conservative Party
• Zaf Shah – Green Party
• Afraheem Shahzad – Your Bradford Independent Group
• Asim Suleman – Green Party
• Carol Ann Thirkill – Labour Party
• John Worsley – Reform UK

Eccleshill

• Nadeem Butt – Conservative Party
• Laura Maddie Fretwell – Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
• Chris Hayden – Labour Party
• Kevin Hullah – Green Party
• Raja Sakhawat Hussain – Independent
• Zubair Hussain – Conservative Party
• Doctor Jamshad – Independent
• Suzanne Julia Lubenko – Liberal Democrats
• Khalid Mahmood – Conservative Party
• Vera Martin – Labour Party
• Jayne Margaret Morgan – Reform UK
• Ian Parson – Labour Party
• Wajid Rasool – Independent
• John Keith Riley-Holmes – Reform UK
• Junaid Sawar – Green Party
• Dominic Sheeran – Green Party
• Brendan Robert Stubbs – Liberal Democrat
• Gillian Thorne – Liberal Democrats
• Selina Ward-Nicholson – Reform UK

Great Horton

• Vasim Akhtar – Labour Party
• Pauline Ann Brierley – Reform UK
• Hannah Capes – Green Party
• Dawn Julia Collins – Conservative Party
• Mike Daw – Green Party
• Robbie Deacon – Green Party
• Joanne Margaret Dodds – Labour Party
• Jitendra Gupta – Reform UK
• Tariq Hussain – Your Bradford Independent Group
• Mazafar Iqbal – Your Bradford Independent Group
• Abdul Jabar – Labour Party
• Sarah Marie Moses – Liberal Democrat
• Paul Richard Roberts – Conservative Party
• Saddiq Sirferaz – Your Bradford Independent Group
• Coral Whittlestone – Conservative Party
• Darrell Wilson – Reform UK
• Abid Zaman – Independent

Heaton & Frizinghall

• Sijyy Ahmad Sajjad – Labour Party
• Ishtiaq Ahmed – Your Bradford Independent Group
• Aleem Bashir – Your Bradford Independent Group
• Shabana Bashir – Your Bradford Independent Group
• Leslie Bennett – Reform UK
• Megan Lesley Cowen – Conservative Party
• Kathleen Mary – Conservative Party
• Mohammed Hanif – Green Party
• Humayun Islam – Labour Party
• Fred Knowles – Reform UK
• Khalid Mahmood – Green Party
• Nussrat Mohammed – Labour Party
• Glenn Stuart Nixon – Reform UK
• John Kevin Passman – Conservative Party
• Nargus Rangzeb – Green Party
• Adrian Jason Todd – Liberal Democrats

Holme Wood & Bierley

• Martin Hussain Bottomley – Labour Party
• Matt Edwards – Green Party
• Nigel Guy – Labour Party
• Steve Hammond – Reform UK
• Stuart Anthony Hastings – Conservative Party
• Celia Hickson – Green Party
• John William Jakes – Reform UK
• Shamas Khan – Conservative Party
• Nicky Knowles – Reform UK
• Richard Duncan Lewis – Labour Party
• Iain McInnes – Green Party
• Alexander Keith Metcalfe – Conservative Party
• Ines Linda Riach – Liberal Democrats

Idle & Thackley

• David Bryant – Conservative Party
• Sally Cook – Conservative Party
• Evelyne Godfrey – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Alun Owen Griffiths – Liberal Democrats
• Stuart Hurlbut – Green Party
• Melissa Jacobs – Green Party
• Tess Lawrence – Green Party
• Gareth David Logan – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Tom MacPherson Le Maire – Reform UK
• David Llewelyn Mills – Reform UK
• Asilin Naylor – Liberal Democrats
• John Michael Riley – Reform UK
• Jeanette Sunderland – Liberal Democrats
• Richard Edward John Wightman – Conservative Party
• Paul Wright – Labour Party

Ilkley & Addingham

• Ros Brown – Green Party
• Ellen D’Arcy – Green Party
• Richard Michale Downey – Conservative Party
• Lorraine Dowson – Labour Party
• John Flaherty – Labour Party
• Stephen Anthony Hey – Labour Party
• Ray Lenik – Reform UK
• Andrew John Patrick Loy – Conservative Party
• Greg Robinson – Reform UK
• Craig Sanderson – Reform UK
• Jane Isabel Sellers – Conservative Party
• Mark Frederick Stidworthy – Liberal Democrats
• Richard Wilson – Green Party

Keighley Central

• Amjid Nazir Ahmed – Independent
• Muhmmad Basharat – Independent
• Ian Berrisford – Reform UK
• Harry Alexander Nickson Burns – Conservative Party
• Leslie Benjamin Dean – Reform UK
• Roisin Mary Engel – Labour Party
• Robert George Goulding – Conservative Party
• Gez Lloyd-Brown – Reform UK
• James David Naylor – Liberal Democrats
• Ashley Pates – Green Party
• Nasser Razak – Independent
• Vaz Shabir – Your Bradford Independent Group
• Sean Michael Spence – Conservative Party
• Ryan Walsh – Green Party
• James Whitaker – Green Party
• David Wilford – Labour Party
• Amjad Ali Zaman – Labour Party

Keighley East

• Fulzar Ahmed – Labour Party
• Nicholas James Allon – Liberal Democrats
• Angela Jayne Baker – Reform UK
• Polly Burton – Green Party
• Tom Commis – Reform UK
• Caroline Rebecca Davison Firth – Labour Party
• Angela Marie Fish – Conservative Party
• Duncan Hunnisett – Green Party
• Stephen Miles – Green Party
• Mohammed Muazzam – Conservative Party
• Alan John Outlaw – Reform UK
• Lisa Robinson – Labour Party

Keighley West

• Howard Buckley – Conservative Party
• Helen Goulding – Conservative Party
• Dawn Harris – Green Party
• David John Hewitt – Liberal Democrats
• Peter Henry Hill – Conservative Party
• Ash Joomun-Whitehead – Labour Party
• Andrew Mark Judson – Reform UK
• Ian Linnegan – Green Party
• Garry Morton – Reform UK
• Martyn Oliver – Labour Party
• Amanda Patchett – Labour Party
• Frances Powell – Green Party
• Dawn Alison Thewlis – Reform UK

Little Horton

• Nurjahan Ali Arobi – Green party
• Maj Asghar – Independent
• Christine Boyd – Green Party
• John Malcolm Charles Cole – Liberal Democrats
• Noor Elahi – Your Bradford Independent Group
• Will Grant – Reform UK
• Jacquie Jarvis – Conservative Party
• Imran Khan – Labour Party
• Shafi Ullah Khan – Independent
• Dave Leonard – Reform UK
• Ashfaq Rasool – Conservative Party
• Paul Roper – Reform UK
• Jude Sykes Rowe – Labour Party
• Talat Sajawal – Your Bradford Independent Group
• Taj Salam – Your Bradford Independent Group
• Abdul Sattar – Conservative Party
• Sophie Vanicat – Green Party
• Maz Zaman – Labour Party

Manningham

• Fatima Safa Ali – Labour Party
• Shazad Ali – Green Party
• Susan Andrews – Conservative Party
• Khalid Mahmoon Anjum – Conservative Party
• Bruce Barnes – Green Party
• Steve Call – Reform UK
• Ian Cowen – Conservative Party
• Siobhan Marie Helliwell – Reform UK
• Muhammed Ali Islam – Your Bradford Independent Group
• Rosemary Izzard – Reform UK
• Safina Kauser – Labour Party
• Muhammad Haseeb Khan – Your Bradford Independent Group
• Ashraf Miah – Labour Party
• Ahdam Rana – Green Party
• Mohammed Saliss – Your Bradford Independent Group
• Anthony Stockdale – Liberal Democrats

Queensbury

• Muhammad Asjad Baig – Liberal Democrats
• Paul Gregory Smith Cromie – Independent
• Robin Cumming – Reform UK
• Ian David Evans – Reform UK
• Robert Steven Illingworth – Conservative Party
• Ashley Victor Isherwood – Labour Party
• Chris Masterson – Reform UK
• Alex Mitchell – Labour Party
• Adam Paterson – Conservative Party
• Anni Raw – Green Party
• Phoenix Mae Talbot – Conservative Party
• Gill Thornton – Labour Party
• Sophie Williams – Green Party
• Charlotte Woollard – Green Party

Royds

• Charles Robert Hason Agar – Conservative Party
• Tabitha Bast – Green Party
• Hazel Bateman – Conservative Party
• Oliver Darryl Bolton-Williams – Refomr UK
• Steven Michael Cotterill – Liberal Democrats
• Simon Mark Cunningham – Labour Party
• Ian Jack Fletcher – Conservative Party
• Emily McDowall – Green Party
• Stephen Anthony Place – Reform UK
• Angela Tait – Labour Party
• Andrew Thornton – Labour Party
• Tony Wooffitt – Reform UK
• Will Worboys – Green Party

Shipley

• Qasem Awan – Labour Party
• Stuart Baggaley – Refomr UK
• Anita Belska – Conservative Party
• Thomas Felix Creighton – Conservative Party
• Tom Ernest Gibson – Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
• Hawarun Hussain – Green Party
• Athif Khan – Labour Party
• Jen Kilyon – Labour Party
• Ben Lundergan – Reform UK
• Christopher Anthony Morley – Liberal Democrats
• Peter Anthony Robinson – Reform UK
• Kevin Warnes – Green Party
• Anna Watson – Green Party
• Geoffrey Michael Whiteley – Conservative Party

Thornton & Allerton

• Qamar Ahmed – Independent
• Michael Cockayne – Heritage Party
• Osman Gondal – Independent
• Anthea Lynne Griffiths – Liberal Democrats
• Nana Abena Owusuwah – Labour Party
• Omar Hussain – Labour Party
• Lester Graham Martin – Reform UK
• Melanie Jane Milnes – Reform UK
• Beverley Mullaney – Labour Party
• Alice Patterson – Green Party
• Gordon James Payne – Independent
• Farah Rahman – Green Party
• Maaria Rehman – Green Party
• Clive Thomas Richardson – Conservative Party
• John Antony Robertshaw – Conservative Party
• John Sharples – Reform UK
• Safeyan Siddique – Conservative Party

Toller

• Parvez Akhtar – Conservative Party
• Mohammed Imran Suleman Bhatti – Conservative Party
• Aisha Bibi – Green Party
• Sophie Bibi – Independent
• Brian Hinchliffe – Reform UK
• Arshad Hussain – Independent
• Ghafoor Hussain – Conservative Party
• Kamran Hussain – Labour Party
• Sharat Hussain – Independent
• Zohair Kamran – Independent
• Mahfooz Ahmed Khan – Independent
• Mark Lawrenson – Reform UK
• Raf Rafaqat – Labour Party
• Caz Ramsden – Reform UK
• Hamza Rehman – Green Party
• Fozia Shaheen – Labour Party
• Andrew John Sunderland – Liberal Democrats
• Muneeb Yaqub – Green Party

Wharfedale

• Pauline Heather Allon – Liberal Democrats
• Nicholas Charles Carter – Reform UK
• Peter Sidney Cochrane – Conservative Party
• Bob Felstead – Conservative Party
• Daniel Guy – Green Party
• Ronald Harriman – Reform UK
• Peter Martin Iliff – Labour Party
• Lottie Kitching – Green party
• Dan Neal – Reform UK
• Amanda Peters – Labour Party
• Christopher Eric Steele – Labour Party
• Chris Turner – Green Party
• Jo White – Conservative Party

Wibsey & Odsal

• Ralph David Ritchie Berry – Labour Party
• Steve Burd – Reform UK
• Hassan Butt – Conservative Party
• David Cowell – Conservative Party
• Brian Ford – Green Party
• Faiz Ilyas – Labour Party
• Darren Peter Ingham – Reform UK
• Alayna Khan – Your Bradford Independent Group
• Sabiya Akhtar Khan – Labour Party
• Amena Patel – Conservative Party
• Nick Peterken – Your Bradford Independent Group
• Alex Radice – Green Party
• Jason Mark Townend – Reform UK
• Mary Whitrick – Liberal Democrats
• Andrew Wood – Green Party

Windhill & Wrose

• Sally Jane Birch – Reform UK
• Stephen Nigel Broadbent – Reform UK
• Stephen Mark Butler – Conservative Party
• Gazz Hall – Independent
• Susan Kathryn Hinchliffe – Labour Party
• Chris Howlett – Reform UK
• Kurt McMillan – Green Party
• Anthony Stephen Meadows – Liberal Democrats
• Alex Ross-Shaw – Labour Party
• Liz Rowe – Labour Party
• Ralph Saunders – Green Party
• Tkay Shana – Conservative Party
• Aly Telfer – Green Party
• Harriet Wood – Conservative Party

Worth Valley

• Tamara Michelle Christian – Labour Party
• Sabine Ebert-Forbes – Independent
• Paul Belcome Constantine Golding – Conservative Party
• Christopher John Herd – Conservative Party
• Helen Ingham-Cook – Reform UK
• Peter James Kates – Labour Party
• Kay Kirkham – Liberal Democrats
• Josie McMaster – Green Party
• Brain Newham – Green Party
• Pat Oxley – Labour Party
• Rebecca Poulsen – Conservative Party
• Craig Whale – Reform UK
• Judith White – Reform UK
• Patrick Wilson – Green Party

Wyke

• Peter Crossley Bateman – Conservative Party
• Stephen Leslie Goodwill – Conservative Party
• Kevin Anthony Hall – Liberal Democrats
• Tom Hughes – Labour Party
• James Graham Lewthwaite – British Democrats
• Richard Milczanowski – Conservative Party
• Andrew Neilly – Green Party
• Sharon Ratcliffe – Labour Party
• Ian Reed – Reform UK
• Will Robinson – Green Party
• Kay Thomas – Green Party
• Adam Thompson-Day – Reform UK
• Ian Walker – Reform UK
• Andy Walsh – Labour Party

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