Key figures set to battle in local elections

Howard Sykes

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NEXT month’s local elections will see candidates battle to keep their council seat as Oldhamers go to the polls.

Mayor of Oldham, Councillor Ateeque Ur-Rehman; deputy council leader, Councillor Abdul Jabbar; leader of the opposition Howard Sykes and former council leader candidate Arooj Shah all defending their seat on May 5.

Nominations closed at 4pm yesterday, leaving91 candidates to battle for 20 of the council 60 seats.

Labour and the Liberal Democrats have put forward a candidate in all 20 wards. The Conservatives have 19 candidates, UKIP and the Green Party 14 each and there are four independents.

The most notable absentee is Labour’s Dave Hibbert who, after holding Chadderton South since 1994, was deselected by his party in January. Chris Goodwin will stand in his place.

Councillor Hibbert became the second long-serving councillor to be deselected by local Labour members. Thirty-year Royton North councillor and former Mayor Bernard Judge was also deselected but will instead contest the Crompton seat for Labour.

Fellow former Mayor of Oldham Liberal Democrat Val Sedgwick has also stepped down after representing Saddleworth West and Lees since 1992. Labour’s David Dawson steps down after four years in Failsworth East.



CANDIDATES BY WARD

Alexandra

David Carter (UKIP)

Zahid Mehmood Chauhan (Lab)

Richard Neville Darlington (Lib Dem)

Terry Hopkinson (Con)

Matloob Hussain (Independent)

Irfat Ahmed (Green)



Chadderton Central
Francis Adrian Arbour (UKIP)

Robert Barnes (Con)

Derek Clayton (Lib Dem)

Susan Dearden (Lab)

Jessica Stott (Green)



Chadderton North

John Cecil Charles Hall (Lib Dem)

Fazlul Haque (Lab)

Adam King (Green)

Lewis Quigg (Con)



Chadderton South

Steve Connor (UKIP)

Chris Goodwin (Lab)

Tabirul Islam (Lib Dem)

Chris Parr (Green)

Coldhurst

Jamie Curley (Con)

Abdul Jabbar (Lab)

Saleh Uddin Talukdar (Green)

Nuruz Zaman (Lib Dem)



Crompton

Phelyp Bennett (Con)

Nicholas Adam Godleman (UKIP)

Bernard Judge (Lab)

Diane Williamson (Lib Dem)



Failsworth East

Cherryl Anne Brock (Lab)

Anthony Cahill (Con)

Andy Hunter-Rossall (Green)

Chris Wise (Lib Dem)

Failsworth West

Sean Eric Fielding (Lab)

Louie Michael Hamblett (Lib Dem)

Paul Martin (Con)

Joan Spencer (UKIP)



Hollinwood

Brian Ames (Lab)

Martin Alexander Dinoff (Lib Dem)

Nicola Jeffery-Sykes (Con)

Imran Sarwar (UKIP)



Medlock Vale

Hasin Amin (Con)

Ur-Rehman Ateeque (Lab)

John Christopher Berry (UKIP)

Jean Betteridge (Green)

Mohammed Zakaullah (Lib Dem)



Royton North

Russell Gosling (Lib-Dem)

Ruth Keating (UKIP)

James Anthon Larkin (Lab)

Lauren Pickering (Green)

Michele Stockton (Con)

Royton South

Amanda Clare Chadderton (Lab)

Allan Robert Fish (Con)

Vipran Srivastava (Lib-Dem)

Jim Stidworthy (Green)



Saddleworth North

Sean Raymond Curley (Con)

Garth Harkness (Lib Dem)

Catherine Hunter-Rossall (Green)

Rob Knotts (Independent)

Valerie Leach (Lab)

Harry Moore (UKIP)



Saddleworth South

Alan Stuart Belmore (Lib Dem)

John Hudson (Con)

Ian Brian Manners (Lab)



Saddleworth West & Lees

Stephen Barrow (Lib Dem)

Andris D’Adamo (Con)

Stephen Gordon Hewitt (Lab)

Ian Nurse (UKIP)



Shaw

Ian James Bond (UKIP)

Pam Byrne (Con)

Hemmy Spiggott (Lab)

Howard Sykes (Lib Dem)





St JameS

Cath Ball (Lab)

John David Caddick (Con)

Kevin Anthony Dawson (Lib Dem)

Joseph Christopher Fitzpatrick (UKIP)

Roger Mark Pakeman (Green)



St Mary’s

Hussain Aftab (Independent)

David Andrew Atherton (Con)

Angie Farrell (Lib Dem)

Donna Elaine Godleman (UKIP)

Miranda Meadowcroft (Green)

Arooj Shah (Lab)



Waterhead

Neil Allsopp (Con)

Linda Dawson (Lib Dem)

Criona Franklin (Green)

Ajawat Hussain (UKIP)

Vita Rose Price (Lab)



Werneth

Rehman Attiq (Independent)

Fida Hussain (Lab)

Jawaad Hussain (Con)

Keith Pendlebury (Lib Dem)

Melodey Walker (Green)