PROSPECTIVE councillors from the Harrogate district for the North Yorkshire County Council elections to be held on May 5 are:

Masham and Fountain: Geoffrey Home LD; Paul Aidan Richardson C.

Harrogate Bilton and Nidd Gorge: Robin Arthur Adderley C; Dennis Clive Collins C; Morris Lightfoot LD; Daniel Paul Joseph Maguire L; John Peter Burrill Wren LD.

Harrogate Central: Annette Susan Jane Austen-Meek the Pink Party; Eric Richard Cooper C; Andrew Harrison Jones C; Stephen Richard Macare LD; Harinder Singh Mann L; John Walter Marshall LD.

Harrogate Harlow: James Clark C; Leslie John Parkes LD.

Harrogate Oatlands: Keith Stephen Barnes LD; Jean Mary Butterfield C; Keith Stuart Chapman I.

Harrogate Saltergate: Gordon Brian Charlton LD; David Gilbert Simister C.

Harrogate Starbeck: Richard John Cain C; Margaret-Ann Corlett De Courcey-Bayley LD; Geoffrey Ronald David Foxall L; David Rimington UK Independence Party.

Ainsty: John Savage C.

Boroughbridge: John Bentham L; Peter Phillips LD; John Granville Barnard Watson C.

Knaresborough: Robert Wellis Aspin C; Alan Beatham L; Michael Kenneth Gallice C; Richard Hall LD; Bill Hoult LD.

Lower Nidderdale and Bishop Monkton: Phillip Stephen Barlow LD; Heather Joyce Garnett C.

Pannal and Lower Wharfedale: Neil Charles Andrew Gledhill LD; Clifford Wilfred Trotter C.

Pateley Bridge: Colin Trevor Banner British National Party; Eric Walter Beechey L; William John Fort C.

Ripon North: Bernard Arthur Batemen LD; Stanley Mackintosh I; Stuart Andrew Martin NDG; Charles Ernest Powell I; Richard Thomas C.

Ripon South: Roger Michael Baker L; Charles Andrew Burrell C; Sidney James Hawke NDG; John William Stockdale LD; Andrew Williams I.

Key: L - Labour; C - Conservative; LD - Liberal Democrat; I - Independent; NDG - No Description Given.