Voters will go to the polls in Sefton this May in the first all-out local elections for over two decades.
It makes this the most crucial election for a long time, with every single one of Sefton’s 66 council seats up for grabs in a winner-takes-all contest.
Usually, a third of council seats are up for election at a time, with a ‘fallow’ year in the fourth year.
On Thursday 7th May 2026 voters will be able to decide the whole make-up of Sefton Council with a total of 310 candidates seeking your votes.
The full list of candidates has now been published by Sefton Council, with the list for the seven wards in Southport below.
The last time there was an all-out election locally was in June 2004. This was combined with European Parliament elections, and the result was no overall control.
For more details about the local elections in Sefton visit: https://www.sefton.gov.uk/elections
Everyone voting will get three votes in your ward.
Each of the 22 electoral wards will elect 3 councillors.
The candidate who records the most votes will serve a 4-year term of office until May 2030. The candidate who records the second most number of votes will serve a 2-year term of office until May 2028.
The candidate who records the third most number of votes will serve a term of office of 1 year until May 2027.
** indicates the current sitting councillor in that ward.
Ainsdale
Victor Annells — Reform UK
** Tony Brough — Conservative Party
Alwynne Cartmell — Green Party
Joseph Connolly — Green Party
Lesley Delves — Liberal Democrat
Rowenna Gibson — Liberal Democrat
Norman Gwyther — Reform UK
Frank Hanley — Labour Party
** Janet Harrison-Kelly — Labour Party
Mark Hughes — Labour Party
Mal McColl — Reform UK
Alan Salter — Conservative Party
Michael Shaw — Conservative Party
Alasdair Smith — Green Party
** Lynne Thompson — Liberal Democrat
Birkdale
Michael Binns — Green Party Candidate
** Iain Brodie Browne — Liberal Democrat
Carla Curtis-Tansley — Labour Party
Angela Halliwell — Conservative Party
Roger Halliwell — Conservative Party
Marie Hansson-Hesketh — Conservative Party
** Sonya Kelly — Labour Party
Lynne Lloyd-Stafford — Reform UK
Simon Maxwell — Green Party
David McIntosh — Green Party
Callum Naylor — Labour Party
Mark Ormsby — Reform UK
Dominic Pillai — Liberal Democrat
Mike Ryder — Reform UK
** Simon Shaw — Liberal Democrat
Cambridge
Helen Avis — Labour Party
John Boye — Southport Community Independents
Sam Constantine — Conservative Party
Sinclair D’Albuquerque — Reform UK
** Leo Evans — Liberal Democrat
Carla Fox — Green Party
Gary Doyle — Conservative Party
Stephen Hesketh — Green Party
Kev Hookham — Reform UK
Pat Keith — Liberal Democrat
Nina Killen — Labour Party
Caroline Longdon — Green Party
** Mike Morris — Reform UK
Caroline Prendergast — Conservative Party
Lily Ritchie — Labour Party
** Mike Sammon — Liberal Democrat
Dukes
Michael Braham — Liberal Democrat
Alexander Constantine — Labour Party
Kim Doyle — Green Party
Danny Howard — Liberal Democrat
Charlotte Kelly — Labour Party
David Newman — Green Party
Laura Nuttall — Conservative Party
Ganesh Paul — Green Party
Owen Phillips — Reform UK
** Mike Prendergast — Conservative Party
** John Pugh — Liberal Democrat
Patrick Sharman — Labour Party
Lorinda Swift — Reform UK
Benjamin Younis — Conservative Party
Sarah Zhang — Reform UK
Kew
Xabi Arthur — Conservative Party
Dawn Aspinall — Southport Community Independents
Michael Burt — Labour Party
Jason Michael Clarke — Reform UK
Anne Corbishley — Liberal Democrat
Leigh Christian Duffy — Reform UK
Stuart Iain Fleming — Conservative Party
Melanie Horne — Labour Party
Mike Kirby — Liberal Democrat
Nicholas Guy Robinson — Reform UK
Yaso Sathiy — Liberal Democrat
Alix Shaw — Southport Community Independents
Trevor James Vaughan — Labour Party
Morgan Walton — Conservative Party
Meols
Graham Bentley — Green Party
Frances Davies — Southport Community Independents
** John Dodd — Liberal Democrat
Peyton Edwards — Reform UK
Joseph Hart — Labour Party
Pauline Hesketh — Green Party
Darcy Iveson-Berkeley — Conservative Party
** Lauren Keith — Liberal Democrat
Adam Kennaugh — Conservative Party
Daniel Lewis — Liberal Democrat
Daniel Longdon — Green Party
Ros Mason — Labour Party
Jack Rogan — Labour Party
Catherine Stephenson — Reform UK
Larry Sweeney — Reform UK
Bob Teesdale — Conservative Party
Norwood
Jo Barton — Green Party
Kelly Barton — Conservative Party
Peter Blake — Liberal Democrat
John Costello — Reform UK
Lara Cron — Green Party
Charles Denton — Reform UK
Peter Latham — Liberal Democrat
Margaret Middleton — Conservative Party
Laurence Rankin — Green Party
Andy Spencer — Labour Party
Thomas Swaney — Reform UK
Pamela Teesdale — Conservative Party
Marianne Welsh — Labour Party
Ged Wright — Labour Party
Roland Zollner — Liberal Democrat
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