Published at 15:52, Thursday, 05 April 2012

Overall voters in 17 of the 52 wards are going to the polls on May 3 in a ballot that has the potential to change control of the authority, led by the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.

The candidates for the Brampton wards are: 

• Graham Barlett (Lab)
• Christian Matthew Forster (UKIP)
• Steve Layden (Con)

The full list of nominations also reveals a return to the city political foray for Judith Pattinson, a former city councillor and current chair of Brampton parish council. She left the city council in July 2004 to concentrate on finding a parliamentary seat. She failed to be selected for Carlisle but has stood as the Workington Conservative candidate in recent years.

Another familiar face is Elsie Martlew, wife of former MP Eric, who is standing for Labour in the Castle ward.

The BNP is fielding one candidate – Stephen Bingham – in Currock, a ward where Brent Kennedy is standing for the Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts.

The Green Party is represented in 10 wards, as is UKIP. The Liberal Democrats are standing in eight wards and two wards have Independent candidates, including former mayor William Graham, in Hayton.

Labour is the largest party on the hung council with 24 councillors.

A net gain of two would ensure they take control, ending 13 years of control by the Conservatives and their Liberal Democrat allies.

The Tories and Lib Dems will be defending four marginal seats.

Candidates in other wards....

Belah
Ian Brewis (Green)
Andrew Hill (UKIP)
David Morton (Con)
Kevin Parker (Lab)

Belle Vue
Mike Clarke (Con)
Richard Hunt (Green)
Terrence Jones (Lib Dem)
Les Tickner (Lab)

Botcherby
Lynn Juliet Bates (Green)
Michael Boaden (Lab)
Shaidat Danmole-Ellis (Con)
Mike Middlemore (Ind)
Ivan Strong (UKIP)

Castle
Neil Boothman (Green)
Elsie Martlew (Lab)
Kevin Reynolds (Con)
Ian Walker (Lib Dem)

Currock
Stephen Bingham (BNP)
Colin Glover (Lab)
Stephen Higgs (Con)
Brent Kennedy (Trade Unionists and Socialists against cuts)

Dalston
Trevor Allison (Lib Dem)
Robert Dickinson ( UKIP)
Michael Randall (Con)
Sandra Gill Warwick (Lab)

Denton Holme
Barbara Eden (Con)
Joan Southward (Lab)
James Liam Tucker (Green)
John Duncan Warmingham (UKIP)
David John Wood (Lib Dem)

Great Corby and Geltsdale
Beth Furneaux (Lab)
Doreen Parsons (Con)

Harraby
Dallas Brewis (Green)
Hannah Dolan (Con)
Michael Gee (Lib Dem)
Edward Haughan (UKIP)
Lee Barbara Sherriff (Lab)

Hayton
Harry Newton Cain (Con)
William James Graham (Ind)
Michael John Owen (UKIP)

Morton
Arnold Bell Blythe (UKIP)
Gillian Curwen (Green)
Lawrence Fisher (Con)
Peter Noble (Lib Dem)
Elaine Mary Stephenson (Lab)

St Aidans
Robert Andrew Cakans (UKIP)
Christine Finlayson (Con)
Lucy Patrick (Lab)
John Reardon (Green)

Stanwix urban
Helen Davison (Green)
Paul Nedved (Con)
Grant Christopher Warwick (Lab)
Carol Weaver (UKIP)

Upperby
Donald Stewart Cape (Lab)
James Osler (Lib Dem)
Judith Pattinson (Con)

Wetheral
Michael Brader (Green)
Barry Earp (Con)
Roger Horne (Lab)
Geoff Round (UKIP)

Yewdale
Deborah Clode (Lib Dem)
Karen Gallagher (Lab)
Hazel Jane Graham (Green)
Fiona Robson (Con)

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