THE candidates have been announced for the upcoming local elections in Weymouth and Portland.

There are 13 seats to be contested in 12 wards on the borough council and elections will take place on Thursday, May 5.

The wards and candidates are as follows:

Littlemoor

John Victor Tomblin (Green Party)

Ann Linda Rosina Weaving (Labour)

Clare Louise Williams (Conservative)

Melcombe Regis

Shenis Cant (Conservative)

Daragh Edwin Croxson (Green Party)

John Douglas Morse (UKIP)

Tia Roos (Labour)

Preston

Ian Cameron Bruce (Conservative)

Robin Malcolm Vaughan (Lib Dem)

Elaine Dorothy Walker (Labour)

Radipole

Derek Roy Fawell (Green Party)

Tony Ferrari (Conservative)

Ian Roebuck (Lib Dem)

Kay Susanne Wilcox (Labour)

Tophill West

Katherine Garcia (Conservative)

Ray Nowak (Labour)

Underhill

David Hastings (Conservative)

Sandy West (Labour)

Westham East

James Robert Askew (Green Party)

Mike Byatt (Labour)

Sally Maslin (Lib Dem)

Alec Roy Nicholls (Conservative)

Westham North

Ryan Dean Hope (Lib Dem)

Gary Seymour (Conservative)

Kieron Womble (Labour)

Westham West

Michelle Hind (Conservative)

Angela Mary McCarthy (Labour)

Gill Taylor (Lib Dem)

Weymouth East

David James Knight (UKIP)

Peter O’Neill (Conservative)

Jonathan Martin Orrell (Green Party)

Tony Prowse (Labour)

Weymouth West

Brian Heatley (Green Party)

Colin John Huckle (Labour)

Richard Douglas Nickinson (Conservative)

Wyke Regis (two seats to be contested)

Kerry Baker (Conservative)

Steve Cobb (Independent)

Lee Dalton (Green Party)

Sybil Drake (UKIP)

Lucy Hamilton (Labour)

Andrew Knowles (Conservative)

Howard Richard Legg (Lib Dem)

Gillian Pearson (Lib Dem)

Kate Wheller (Labour and Co-operative Party)