Voters will take to the polls in local elections across the Tees Valley on Thursday, May 4.

The stakes are high in Stockton, with the two main parties both hoping to prove themselves and take power, with no party having had majority control for the last four years.

Labour is currently the largest party on the council with 24 of the 56 seats up for grabs.

Read more: Here is everything you need to know about voting in the upcoming local elections

The Conservatives are the second largest party, holding 16 seats.

The remainder are held by various independent groups including six Thornaby Independent Association councillors, two Fairfield Independents, three Ingleby Barwick Independent Society councillors, two Billingham West and Ingleby Barwick East Independent councillors, one Liberal Democrat and two independent councillors.

Who’s standing in the Stockton council elections?

Here is a ward-by-ward breakdown of who’s standing in the Stockton council elections on May 4.

Billingham Central

  • Ann May McCoy – Labour
  • John Gerard McDermottroe – Reform UK
  • John Sharp – Conservative
  • Christine Stringer – Green Party
  • Lynn Tunney – Conservative
  • Barry Woodhouse – Labour

Billingham East

  • Michelle Diane Bendelow – Labour
  • Margaret Carney – Conservative
  • Ian Geer – Conservative
  • Colin George Jeffrey – Green Party
  • Mick Stoker – Labour
  • David Pryce Stringer – Green Party

Billingham North

  • Kevin Barry – Conservative
  • Marc Graham Besford – Labour and Co-operative
  • Clare Michelle Gamble – Labour and Co-operative
  • Jess Hobson – Green Party
  • Luke Stott – Conservative

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Billingham South

  • Joan Holdaway – Conservative
  • Splendita Maria Lacey - no recorded affiliation 
  • David Scott – Conservative
  • David Roger Spence – Reform UK
  • Kenneth Stringer – Green Party
  • Katie Doreen Weston – Labour
  • Paul Weston – Labour

Billingham West & Wolviston

  • Helen Atkinson – Independent
  • Daniel Adam Forrest – Labour
  • David Reynard – Conservative
  • Mike Smith – Labour
  • Guy David Snead – Independent
  • Marcus Lennon Vickers – Conservative

Bishopsgarth & Elm Tree

  • John Cunningham – Labour
  • Stephen James Jennings – Labour
  • Hugo Thomas Stratton – Conservative
  • Emily Anne Tate – Conservative

Eaglescliffe East

  • Stefan Richard Houghton – Conservative
  • Reginald Rowlinson – Labour
  • Kiran Singh – Green Party
  • Jim Taylor – Conservative

Eaglescliffe West

  • Francis William Batchelor – Labour
  • Samuel Ernest Bradford – Green Party
  • Diane Clarke – Conservative
  • James Clarke – Labour
  • Andrew Frederick – Reform UK
  • Laura Tunney – Conservative

Fairfield

  • William Bell-berry - no recorded affiliation 
  • Andrew Cunningham – Labour
  • Alex Griffiths – Conservative
  • Jack Conner James Johnson-Colmer – Labour
  • Neil McCabe – Reform UK
  • Laraine Ann Perry – Independent
  • Maurice Perry – Independent
  • Stephen John Richardson – Conservative
  • Susan Maria Scott – Conservative
  • John George Hetherington Stephenson – Labour
  • Michael James Thomas - no recorded affiliation 
  • Susan Thomas - no recorded affiliation 
  • Bill Woodhead – Independent

Grangefield

  • Carol Clark – Labour
  • Louisa Anne Clarke – Conservative

Hardwick and Salters Lane

  • Nigel Anthony Cooke – Labour
  • Craig Harker – Reform UK
  • Graham Harker – Reform UK
  • Maureen Merifield – Conservative
  • Norma Stephenson – Labour
  • Judith Wellington – Conservative

Hartburn

Elections in the Hartburn ward have been delayed and will not take place on May 4 following the death of Reform UK candidate Mike Elliott.

Read more: Election in council ward delayed due to death of candidate

This list of candidates is based on those who were planning to stand:

  • Christopher Coombs – Labour
  • Andrew Michael Elliott – Reform UK
  • Mike Elliott – Reform UK
  • Jason John French – Conservative
  • Lynn Elizabeth Hall – Conservative
  • Niall Bell Innes – Conservative
  • Joanna Louise Tyler – Labour

Ingleby Barwick North

  • Patricia Mary Faulks – Ingleby Barwick Independent
  • Jason Stephen Keith Foreman - Ingleby Barwick Independent
  • Angela French - no recorded affiliation 
  • Stephen James Harland – Green Party
  • Jean Patricia Kirby - Ingleby Barwick Independent
  • Jenny Rutland – Conservative
  • Ted Strike – Independent
  • Alan Watson – Conservative
  • Sally Ann Watson – Conservative
  • Elizabeth Anne Wood – Labour

Ingleby Barwick South

  • Michael Stefan Barnes - Ingleby Barwick Independent
  • Erica Patricia Clough - no recorded affiliation 
  • Stuart John Davies – Conservative
  • Tony Ellison – Reform UK
  • Kevin Charles Faulks - Ingleby Barwick Independent
  • Michelle Elizabeth Fryer – Conservative
  • David Peter Hobson – Green Party
  • James Alexander Irwin – Conservative
  • Zoe Eleanor Mathers – Independent
  • Kevin Mark Nicholas – Labour
  • Ross Patterson - Ingleby Barwick Independent
  • Michael Williamson - no recorded affiliation 

Mandale & Victoria

  • Lewis Martin Donegan – Conservative
  • Richard Francis Eglington – Labour
  • Luke John Frost – Independent
  • Nathan Adam Gale – Labour
  • Tony Hampton – Conservative
  • Tina Large – Thornaby Independent Association
  • Steve Walmsley – Thornaby Independent Association

Newtown

  • Lesley Anne Riordan – Conservative
  • Marilyn Margaret Surtees – Labour

Northern Parishes

  • John David Gardner – Conservative
  • Steve Matthews – Independent
  • Mark Colin McCarthy – Labour
  • Vanessa Jane Sewell – Conservative

Norton Central

  • Helen Deehan – Independent
  • Lisa Jane Evans – Labour
  • Tony Maxwell – Conservative
  • Ethan Joshua McGlade – Independent
  • Steve Nelson – Labour
  • Tomo Thompson – Independent
  • Ann Marie Young – Conservative

Norton North

  • Tony Riordan – Conservative
  • Hilary Vickers – Conservative
  • David Matthew Wilburn – Labour
  • Norma Margaret Wilburn – Labour

Norton South

  • Bob Cook – Labour
  • Eileen Johnson – Labour
  • Geoffrey Nightscales – Conservative
  • David John Smith – Conservative

Ropner

  • Shakeel Hussain – Conservative
  • Mohammed Javed – Labour and Co-operative
  • Sufi Mubeen – Conservative
  • Kerri Prince – Labour and Co-operative

Roseworth

  • Jim Beall – Labour
  • Jacky Bright – Conservative
  • Barbara – Labour
  • Marie Smailes – Conservative
  • Martin Andrew Walker – Reform UK

Southern Villages

  • Gail Andrea Chandler – Labour
  • Elsi Hampton – Conservative

Stainsby Hill

  • John Michael Dent – Conservative
  • Sarah Louise Dent – Conservative
  • Ray Godwin – Thornaby Independent Association
  • Zac Joseph Curtis Higginbotham – Labour
  • Ben Lamb – Labour
  • Sylvia May Walmsley – Thornaby Independent Association

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Stockton Town Centre

  • Pauline Beall – Labour
  • Alan Hardy – Independent
  • Mazi Mohamed – Conservative
  • Paul Rowling – Labour
  • Alison Kendra Williams – Conservative

Village

  • Julie Cooper – Conservative
  • Tim Cunniffe – Conservative
  • Ian John Dalgarno – Thornaby Independent Association
  • Paul Adrian Jenkins – Labour
  • Mick Moore – Thornaby Independent Association
  • Daniel Michael Smith – Labour

Yarm

  • John Charles Butler – Labour
  • John Herbert Coulson – Conservative
  • Dan Fagan – Conservative
  • Jason Walter Jordan – Green Party
  • Andrew Bickers Liddell Sherris – Conservative
  • Pamela Smailes – Independent
  • Barbara Wegg - Independent