The candidates standing in this year's local elections have been announced.
Lancashire will go to the polls on Thursday May 1 in the county council elections.
There will also be a by-election for Lancaster City Council John O'Gaunt ward, after the resignation of Grace Russell of the Greens.
A by-election will also be held in Torrisholme ward on Morecambe Town Council, following the resignation of Brett Cooper of the Morecambe Bay Independents.
The full list of candidates in the Lancaster and Morecambe area are as follows:
LANCASHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL
Heysham
Graeme Paul Austin (Reform UK)
Sheldon Kent (Liberal Democrat)
Catherine Potter (Labour)
George Paul Thomson (Green)
Andrew Paul Gardiner (Conservative)
Lancaster Central
Gina Dowding (Green)
Thomas William Inman (Conservative)
Derek Kaye (Liberal Democrat)
Rob Kelly (Reform UK)
Fran Wild (Labour)
Lancaster East
Sam Elliot Charlesworth (Labour)
Phil Dunster (Liberal Democrat)
Connor James Winter (Conservative)
Paul Byron Stubbins (Green)
Michael Sean Kershaw (Reform UK)
Lancaster Rural East
Shaun Patrick Cummins (Reform UK)
Geoff Eales (Labour)
Peter James Jackson (Liberal Democrat)
Sally Ann Shelley Maddocks (Green)
Matthew Joseph Maxwell-Scott (Conservative)
Lancaster Rural North
Graham John Dalton (Reform UK)
Alan Greenwell (Liberal Democrat)
Sonny Remmer-Riley (Labour)
Sue Tyldesley (Green)
Phillippa Williamson (Conservative)
Lancaster South East
Lee David Garner (Reform UK)
Daniel Robert Kirk (Conservative)
Erica Ruth Estelle Lewis (Labour)
Malcolm Martin (Liberal Democrat)
Hamish Mills (Green)
Morecambe Central
Connor Frazer William Graham (Conservative)
Paul Bernard Hart (Liberal Democrat)
Gary Andrew Kniveton (Reform UK)
Patrick McMurray (Green)
Margaret Pattison (Labour)
Morecambe North
Sara-Louise Dobson (Green)
Stuart Morris (Conservative)
Jackson Stubbs (Labour)
James Pilling (Liberal Democrat)
Russell Robert Walsh (Reform UK)
Morecambe South
Keith William Budden (Conservative)
Melanie Forrest (Green)
Martin Gawith (Labour)
Bill Jackson (Liberal Democrat)
Brian Edward Moore (Reform UK)
Skerton
Charles Edwards (Conservative)
James Harvey (Liberal Democrat)
Andrew Robert Otway (Green)
Hilda Jean Parr (Labour)
Martyn Sutton (Reform UK)
LANCASTER CITY COUNCIL
John O'Gaunt ward
Wilson Colley (Green)
Dave McGrath Wilkinson (Labour)
Martyn Sutton (Reform UK)
Ethan Weir-Preston (Liberal Democrat)
MORECAMBE TOWN COUNCIL
Torrisholme ward
John Bates (Liberal Democrat)
Tricia Heath (Morecambe Bay Independent)
Robert Douglas Irvine (Reform UK)


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