Nominations have closed for next month’s North Lanarkshire Council election, with a total of 142 candidates standing for the 77 posts at the Civic Centre.
The SNP is fielding 43 candidates and Labour has 42, while the Conservatives are similarly on the ballot paper in all 21 wards across the authority.
Also seeking residents’ votes on May 5 are seven independent candidates, seven from the Green party, six Alba representatives, five from the Scottish Family Party, three Liberal Democrats, two from UKIP and one each from British Unionists, Freedom Alliance, Independence for Scotland, Social Democratic and Scottish Socialist parties.
