By George Lythgoe – Local Democracy Reporter
The people of Tameside will go to the polls on May 7 to decide who they want as their next councillors.
At this year’s local elections 19 of the 57 council seats will be up for grabs in the borough. One out of three seats in each ward will be contested by a total of 93 candidates.
Nine political parties and a plethora of independents are fielding contenders in the council wards this year. Conservatives, Greens, Labour, Lib Dems, Reform, Workers, Tameside Independent Group, Your Party and The Official Monster Raving Loony Party are all in the mix for 2026 in Tameside.
The council is currently controlled by Labour, which has 38 out of 57 seats in the chamber. The party will defending 14 current seats this time around, which means there is a possibility it could lose overall control.
A political party needs 29 seats out of 57 to have a majority, so Labour would need to lose 10 of their 14 seats and make no gains elsewhere to lose overall control of the council. Labour have enjoyed a majority control of Tameside council since 1979.
The last council election fought in Tameside was the Longdendale by-election last year, where Reform’s Allan Hopwood surged to victory. The party headed up by Nigel Farage is fielding a candidate in every ward this year, hoping to increase their number of councillors in the chamber.
The Green Party have also put a contender in for 18 wards. They are hoping to follow on from their success in getting Hannah Spencer elected as the new MP for Gorton and Denton in February.
The election will take place on Thursday, May 7, from 7am until 10pm. The deadline to apply for a postal vote in this year’s local elections is 5pm on Tuesday, April 21.
Residents have until midnight on Monday, April 20 to make sure they are on the electoral register and therefore entitled to vote.
Voters are reminded they will need to take ID to polling stations in order to vote
Here is the full list of candidates names for each ward in Tameside:
Ashton Hurst
Samantha Aspin (IND)
Paige Iborra (GREEN)
Keiron Lawrence (REFORM)
Noreen Shahzad (LAB)
Rachel Taylor (CON)
Ashton St Michael’s
Danny Carr (REFORM)
Bill Fairfoull (LAB)
Hasnain Mehmood (IND)
Morgan Murphy (GREEN)
David Taylor (CON)
Ashton Waterloo
Raymond Dunning (REFORM)
Lee Huntbach (GREEN)
Emma Jones (IND)
Muhammad Tahir (LAB)
Audenshaw
Nick Axford (LAB)
Thomas Dunne (CON)
Glenn Piper (GREEN)
Kim Roberts (REFORM)
Denton North East
Veronica Dawson (CON)
Jane Martin (GREEN)
Denise Ward (LAB)
Aron Webb (REFORM)
Denton South
Peter Cotton (CON)
Alexander Culbert (LAB)
Audra Murray (REFORM)
Jackie Olden (GREEN)
Lord Febrezeo Quinnoa-Stakebake (The Official Monster Raving Loony Party)
Denton West
Shoaib Akhtar (CON)
Dan Bennett (REFORM)
Tony Tibbenham (GREEN)
Brenda Warrington (LAB)
Droylsden East
Caroline England (REFORM)
James Lloyd (LIB DEM)
Susan Quinn (LAB)
Tony Wilson (YOUR PARTY)
Archie Young (GREEN)
Droylsden West
Sharon Barker (REFORM)
Rebecca Callaghan (LAB)
Ann Holland (IND)
Joe Johnson (LIB DEM)
Paul Molloy (CON)
Laura Rose (GREEN)
Dukinfield
Michael Harrison (GREEN)
James Rhodes (REFORM)
John Taylor (LAB)
Adam Wolstenholme (CON)
Dukinfield Stalybridge
Matt Alloway (GREEN)
Jake Frater (REFORM)
Linda Freeman (LIB DEM)
Malcolm Smith (CON)
Dave Sweeton (LAB)
Hyde Godley
Betty Affleck (LAB)
Mark Beese (REFORM)
John Bradley (GREEN)
Faisal Nixon (WORKERS)
Callum Percival (CON)
Hyde Newton
Peter Ball-Foster (LIB DEM)
Philip Fitzpatrick (IND)
Sam Mooney (REFORM)
Andrew Moss (CON)
Peter Robinson (LAB)
Hannah Yates (GREEN)
Hyde Werneth
Shibley Alam (LAB)
Andy Furnival (CON)
Abdullah Imran (IND)
Chris Parr (GREEN)
Christopher Stones (REFORM)
Longdendale
Francesca Coates (LAB)
Greg McNally (REFORM)
Roy Miller (CON)
Lucas North (LIB DEM)
Luke Robinson (GREEN)
Mossley
Simon Irving (GREEN)
Daniel Percival (CON)
Gary Roylance (REFORM)
Taf Sharif (LAB)
St Peter’s
Muhammad Ali (IND)
Marie Fairhurst (IND)
Gaynor Francis (REFORM)
Ahmed Mehmood (IND)
Atta Ul-Rasool (LAB)
Stalybridge North
Liam Duff (REFORM)
Adrian Pearce (LAB)
Jim Watson (CON)
Philip Wilson-Marks (GREEN)
Stalybridge South
Jenny Ardron-Adams (REFORM)
Liam Billington (CON)
Amanda Hickling (GREEN)
David McAllister (LAB)
Mike Molloy (IND)
Ian Sharkett (LIB DEM)
Jane Valentine (IND)