Newcastle City Council has announced the official list of candidates standing for election next month, and with all three councillor seats up for grabs in each ward across the city, there are five parties nominating 22 candidates looking for your vote in North and South Jesmond.

JesmondLocal has collated all the candidate names in one place to make it easier for voters to see who is hoping to represent them:

North Jesmond
There will be at least two new councillors elected to represent North Jesmond in May. This follows the news that Labour’s Dan Perry and Liberal Democrat Catherine Walker would both not be standing for re-election. Here is the full list of candidates:

Conservatives
• James Bartle
• James Cowling
• Kitty Lau

Greens
• Shehla Naqui

Labour
• Alexander Hay
• Stella Postlethwaite (currently a councillor and seeking re-election)
• Wendy Young

Liberal Democrats
• David Besag
• Gerry Keating
• Crispin Welby

The polling stations for North Jesmond will be:
• St Hildas Church Hall
• St Georges Church Hall
• Holy Trinity Church

South Jesmond
Both of South Jesmond’s current councillors will be seeking re-election.

Communists
Martin Levy

Conservatives
Max Graham
Ian MacGilp
Christopher Murray

Greens
Clare Andrews
Tony Waterston

Labour
• Arlene Ainsley (currently a councillor and seeking re-election)
• Felicity Mendelson (currently a councillor and seeking re-election)
• Judy Pearce

Liberal Democrats
• Deborah Burns
• Mark Keville
• Alexandra Logan

The polling stations in South Jesmond will be:
• Jesmond United Reformed Church Hall
• Holy Trinity Church
• St Andrews Church of Scotland

JesmondLocal plans to post profiles of each candidate in the run-up to polling day on May 3^rd and is also hosting a Question Time-style “hustings” event at Jesmond Library on April 24th from 7.30pm. Details of that event can be found here.