Yahoo News All the Preston local election candidates 2024 as voters prepare to head to polls
Preston is heading to the polls, where 16 of the authority’s 48 seats are up grabs. This accounts for one in each of the city's wards.
The majority of the contests will be three-way tussles between candidates representing the trio of parties that currently make up the council – the ruling Labour group, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats.
However, four candidates will go head-to-head in five of the wards, where independents and representatives of smaller parties have also thrown their hat into the ring.
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The polls will be open on May 2 from 7am until 10pm – and voters must take a suitable form of photo ID with them in order to cast their ballot in person.
Proxy votes can also be obtained in some circumstances – meaning someone else can vote on your behalf if you cannot make it to a polling station for a limited number of reasons. Applications for a proxy vote must be received by April 24.
However, you can apply for an emergency proxy vote if you discover only after that deadline has passed that you will not be able vote in person, including for medical or employment reasons. In such instances, you can apply for a proxy vote until 5pm on election day itself.
Voter registration can be completed and postal and ordinary proxy votes obtained online. Alternatively, call preston-city-council>Preston City Council on 01772 906908.
Preston candidates
These are the candidates in each of Preston City Council’s 16 wards, along with the parties they represent (an asterisk denotes an incumbent councillor in the ward):
Ashton
DANIEL DUCKWORTH – Conservative Party
JAMES HULL* – Labour Party
REBECCA POTTER – Liberal Democrats
Brookfield
EDWARD CRAVEN – Liberal Democrats
SARA HOLMES – Labour Party
AL-YASA KHAN – Conservative Party
Cadley
PAUL BALSHAW – Independent
JONO GRISDALE – Labour Party
SARAH HART – Conservative Party
JULIE VAN MIERLO – Liberal Democrats
City Centre
SALIM DESAI* – Labour and Co-operative Party
PETER LAWRENCE – Liberal Democrats
ANDY PRATT – Conservative Party
Deepdale
SIRAZ NATHA* – Labour Party
HASAN TUNAY – Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
JURGEN VOGES – Liberal Democrats
NILLI WILLIAMSON – Conservative Party
Fishwick and Frenchwood
ALANA MULLEN – Liberal Democrats
MARTYN RAWLINSON* – Labour and Co-operative Party
ISHAQ VAEZ – Conservative Party
Garrision
CLAIRE CRAVEN – Liberal Democrats
PETER KELLY* – Labour Party
LAKWINDER SINGH – Conservative Party
Greyfriars
AVERY GREATOREX – Labour Party
DAVE LEME DA SILVA – Conservative Party
MICHAEL PEAK – Liberal Democrats
Ingol and Cottam
TREVOR HART* – Conservative Party
ADAM MALIK – Labour Party
DAVID PRESTON – Reform UK
BEN WARD – Liberal Democrats
Lea and Larches
ANN COWELL – Independent
MARK JEWELL – Liberal Democrats
JENNY MEIN* – Labour Party
TRACY SLATER – Conservative Party
Plungington
NWEEDA KHAN* – Labour Party
MARTIN MCKEEVER – Conservative Party
CRISTINA MYLROIE – Liberal Democrats
JOEL PATTON – Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
Preston Rural East
MARK BELL* – Conservative Party
VICTORIA BLUNDELL – Labour Party
JOANNE JOYNER – Liberal Democrats
Preston Rural North
TAYLOR DONOUGHUE-SMITH – Labour Party
DANIEL GUISE – Liberal Democrats
KEITH MIDDLEBROUGH* – Conservative Party
Ribbleton
KATE BOSMAN – Liberal Democrats
ANNA HINDLE* – Labour and Co-operative Party
MARY KENNEDY – Conservative Party
Sharoe Green
GEORGE KULBACKI – Liberal Democrats
MARK ROUTLEDGE – Labour Party
DAVID WALKER* – Conservative Party
St. Matthews
SOHAIB ASHRAF – Conservative Party
SULEMAN SARWAR* – Labour and Co-operative Party
RENE VAN MIERLO – Liberal Democrats
WHERE DO I VOTE?
The polling card sent to your address ahead of the election will tell you at which polling station you must cast your vote.
This year, a new polling station has been established for voters in part of the Greyfriars ward. Electors living in the GR2 polling district should use the new facility, which will be based at St Martin’s Parish Hall, Broadway, Fulwood (postcode: PR2 9TH). For those residents only, it will replace the polling station at Our Lady and St Edward’s Parish Centre, Marlborough Drive, Fulwood (postcode: PR2 9UE).
However, voters in the GR1 polling district will continue to use the parish centre facility as normal.
