THE deadline for candidates for council elections in a Teesside borough passed yesterday, with 55 council seats up for grabs.

The elections for Stockton Borough Council follow boundaries changes in the borough, which will see 26 wards served by 56 councillors replacing the current system of 30 wards and 55 councillors.

The local elections which take place on May 5 with the full list of candidates below.

Billingham Central (3): William Terrence Bean I; Elizabeth Lenora Croot C; George Frederick Jones I; Norman Teasdale L; Barry Woodhouse L.

Billingham East (3): Elizabeth Colverson I; James Colverson I; Alexander Cunningham L; Kevin McCabe I; Michael Nicholas Stoker L.

Billingham North (3): Jennifer Lynne Apedaile LD; Keith Dewison LD; Colin Leckonby LD; Raymond David Charles McCall L; Ann May McCoy L; Peter David Ross L; John Aitken Thomson C.

Billingham South (3): Angela Tracey Ford BIA; Graeme Charles Ford BIA; Joan Hodgson LD; Elizabeth Jean O'Donnell L; Michael Smith L.

Billingham West (3): John Cunningham L; Audrey Pollard LD; Colin Richard Pollard LD; Mary Bernadette Womphrey C; Michael English Womphrey C.

Bishopsgarth and Elm Tree (4): Paul Burns L; Richard Downey C; Suzanne Fletcher LD; Terence David Murphy L; Julia May Roberts LD; Michael Bert Russell I; James Stephen Wharton C.

Eaglescliffe (3): Michael Francis Cherrett LD; John Alan Fletcher LD; Martyn Geoffrey Ingram L; Terence Laing C; Maureen Rigg LD; Reginald Rowlinson L; Andrew Frederick Stephenson C; Elizabeth Anne Wood L; Arthur Giles Alexander Jefferson Young C.

Fairfield (4): Peter Barrie Braney UKIP; David Hamilton-Milburn LD; Catherine Joan Linford L; Maurice Perry C; Colin Maurice Rigg L; Andrew Tucker LD; William Woodhead C.

Grangefield (3): Christopher Davison LD; Keith Flounders L; Fiona Gillian Hawkins C; Eileen Johnson L; Geoffrey Surtees LD; Joan Wade C.

Hardwick (2): Janice Graham LD; George Alan Hebron LD; Elizabeth Ann Nesbitt L; William Henry Noble L.

Hartburn (3): Clifton James Cooke L; Nigel Anthony Cooke L; Ann Hollinsworth LD; Kenneth Allen Lupton C; John Stephen Smailes C.

Ingleby Barwick East (3): Derek Aithwaite L; Roger Michael Awah C; Kevin Charles Faulks IBIS; David Craig Harrington IBIS; Andrew Michael Larkin IBIS; Michael Mannion L; Christopher John McCormack C; Neil Morrison C; Patricia Ramwell LD; Simon Rogers Tranter L.

Ingleby Barwick West (3): Phillip Broughton C; Kenneth Dixon IBIS; Julie Fletcher LD; Peter Anthony McCarrick L; Lee Narroway IBIS; Christopher Tom Robert Newbould C; Ross Patterson IBIS; Victoria Anne Philpot C.

Mandale and Victoria (3): Mohammed L; Edmund Damien Kirkham LD; Angela Jane Norton L; Mohamed Haji Shauq L; Allison Trainer TIA; Stephen Francis Walmsley TIA; Sylvia May Walmsley TIA.

Newtown (3): Paul William Baker L; Robert Gibson L; Julie Deborah Parker LD; Royston Lea Parker LD; Moira Watchman C.

Northern Parishes (1): David Antony Holmes L; John Terry Iveson LD; Stephen William David Parry C.

Norton North (2): Geoffrey Boston LD; Maurice Frankland L; Kathryn Fiona Nelson L; Sheila Margaret Storr C.

Norton South (2): Robert Cook L; James Cummins LD; Steven I'Anson Nelson L.

Norton West (3): Maureen Brown C; Ann Patricia Cains L; Richard Cains L; Lindsay Cummins LD.

Parkfield and Oxbridge (3): Aidan Kenneth Cockerill C; Christopher Coombs L; Simon James Hawkins C; Denis Raymond Rigg LD; Roy Rix L; Kevin Andrew Sexton LD.

Roseworth (4): Barbara Inman L; Keith Leonard L; Grace Annie McNeil LD; Gordon Howard Parkin UKIP; Marie Smailes C.

Stainsby Hill (3): Derrick Thomas L; Christina Elsie Large TIA; John Michael Lynch L; Irene Machin LD; Michael Moore TIA.

Stockton Town Centre (3): David Wright Coleman L; Alan Hardy BNP; Paul Kirton L; Brian James Scrafton LD; Michael Wade LD.

Village (3): Ian John Dalgrano TIA; Edward Roger Mosley TIA; Robert Hutton Moss C; Beryl Robinson L; Tracey Leigh Stott L; Patricia Ann Walton LD.

Western Parishes (1): Philip Addison D; Frederick George Salt C; Sidney Thompson L.

Yarm (4): Michael John Barker LD; Jennifer Beaumont C; Brian Jones C; Alan Leonard Lewis LD; Victoria Parker L; Andrew Bickers Sherris C; Helen Simpson YIA; Marjorie Simpson YIA; Robert George Stephenson L; Eric Turton L.

* Key: L - Labour; C - Conservative; LD - Liberal Democrat; BIA - Billingham Indepence Party; YIA - Yarm Independent Society; TIA - Thornaby Independent Society; IBIS - Ingleby Barwick Independent Society; BNP - British National Party; UKIP - United Kingdom Independence Party.