This year's local elections could see a huge night of change in St Helens.
Unlike previous years, 2022's elections will see a switch to whole council elections- as well as a boundary change creating two new wards within the St Helens borough. For the first time elections will be held for all 48 seats on the council at the same time – and every four years afterwards – meaning voters will elect all councillors for their ward at once, rather than in thirds as before.
The ECHO has compiled a list of all candidates standing in every ward across the borough.
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Billinge and Seneley Green
- Colin Richard Betts (Independent)
- Gareth William Cross (Labour)
- Denise Anne Gibney (Conservatives)
- Dennis McDonnell (Labour)
- Sue Murphy (Labour)
- Peter Peers (Independent)
- Malcolm James Webster (Independent)
Blackbrook
- Anthony James Burns (Labour)
- Melanie Ann Marie Lee (Conservatives)
- Linda Lovina Maloney (Labour)
- Paul McQuade (Labour)
- Jessica Northey (Green)
- Emma Carolyn van der Burg (Green)
Bold and Lea Green
- David Edward Hawley (Green)
- Jim Housley (Labour)
- Allen John Makin (Green)
- Charlie Preston (Labour)
- Lisa Preston (Labour)
- Glen Roger Richards (Green)
- Barbara Evelyn Woodcock (Conservative)
Eccleston
- Mackenzie France (Conservative)
- Michael Haw (Liberal Democrat)
- Glyn Robert Jones (Labour)
- Geoff Pearl (Liberal Democrat)
- Teresa Veronica Sims (Liberal Democrat)
Haydock
- Matthew Peter Butterworth (Labour)
- Judith Margaret Collins (Conservative)
- Paul Robert Hooton (Green)
- Paul Joseph Pritchard (Labour)
- Amy Louise Sample (Labour)
- Janet Ann Sheldon (Green)
- David Ian van der Burg (Green)
Moss Bank
- Zeena Iysha Begum (Labour)
- Tracy Paula Dickinson (Labour)
- Margaret Hilda Harvey (Conservative)
- David Kent (Liberal Democrat)
- Jane Patricia Kent (Liberal Democrat)
- Trisha Long (Labour)
- Paul John Wilcock (Independent)
Newton-le-Willows East
- Jeanie Bell (Labour)
- Lisa Cunliffe (Conservative)
- Seve Gomez-Aspron (Labour)
- Keith Anthony Laird (Labour)
- David James Smith (Liberal Democrat)
Newton-le-Willows West
- Dave Banks (Labour)
- Jeanette Susan Banks (Labour)
- Karl Lionel Collier (Independent)
- Andy Davidson (Labour)
- Allan Albert Dockerty (Conservative)
- Terry Maguire (Independent)
- Craig Colin Alexander Smith (Independent)
Parr
- Andy Bowden (Labour)
- Kate Groucutt (Labour)
- Bisi Osundeko (Labour)
- Madeleine Patricia Wilcock (Conservative)
- Peasley Cross and Fingerpost:
- Iris Brown (Conservative)
- Alison Jill Donnelly (Green)
- Damien Patrick O’Connor (Labour)
Rainford
- John Case (Conservative)
- Anne Linda Mussell (Conservative)
- John Francis Tabern (Labour)
Rainhill
- Emma Davies (Labour)
- Donna Greaves (Independent)
- Barrie Grunewald (Labour)
- Ken Rustidge (Labour)
- Henry Spriggs (Conservative)
- Kate Elizabeth Stevenson (Independent)
- James Stephen Tasker (Independent)
St Helens Town Centre
- Nancy Ashcroft (Conservative)
- Anne Helen McCormack (Labour)
- Terence Matthew Oakes (For Britain Movement)
- Michelle Elaine Sweeney (Labour)
Sutton North West
- Niall Peter Andrew Campbell (Labour)
- John William Hodkinson (Labour)
- David Leslie Skeech (Conservative)
- Francis Joseph Williams (Green)
Sutton South East
- Deepak Shatrugan Gupta (Conservative)
- Anthony Albert Johnson (Labour)
- Janet Elizabeth Johnson (Labour)
- Brian Thomas Spencer (Liberal Democrat)
Thatto Heath
- Nova Louise Charlton (Labour)
- Robyn Olivia Hattersley (Labour)
- Richard McCauley (Labour)
- Samantha Ann Pearson Peet (Conservative)
- Terence Stephen Price (Green)
West Park
- Richard Barton (Conservative)
- Martin James Bond (Labour)
- Derek Paul Long (Labour)
- Marlene Mary Quinn (Labour)
Windle
- David Edward Baines (Labour)
- Lynn Susan Clarke (Labour)
- John Philip Cunliffe (Conservative)
- Andrew William Donnelly (Green)
- Mancyia Uddin (Labour)
