A total of 36 seats on the council are up for grabs this year
21:21, 09 Apr 2026Updated 10:12, 10 Apr 2026
Candidates are standing across Leeds(Image: PA)
The local elections are fast approaching in Leeds with candidates standing across the city.
This year, a third of seats will be up for grabs at Leeds City Council, plus another three due to vacancies, making for a total of 36 seats facing election. Candidates are standing from across the political spectrum as they aim to win seats.
Leeds City Council is currently controlled by the Labour Party, who have 56 seats. In second places is the Conservative Party with 13, the Green Party with six, and the Liberal Democrats, also with six.
The rest of the council is made up of the Garforth and Swillington Independents, with three seats, the Morley Borough Independents, with three seats, and the SDP, with three seats. Reform UK have two seats, and there are three independent councillors.
Here are all the candidates standing for election in Leeds this year.
Adel and Wharfedale
Fiona Josephine Allen – Liberal DemocratsJemima Frankie Bostock – Labour and Co-operative PartyLee Anthony Farmer – The Conservative PartyCraig Gabbitas – Reform UKGordon Richard Howe – Green PartyMichael Lowry – Reform UKNathan James Ramsden – Labour and Co-operative PartyDominic Daniel Jack Seaward – Green PartyRay Smith – Liberal DemocratsDavid Stoddart-Scott – The Conservative Party
Alwoodley
Dan Cohen – The Conservative PartyRobert Hugh Jacques – Liberal DemocratsMatthen McGonagle – Labour and Co-operative PartyHoward Anthony Newman – Reform UKCatherin Taylor – Green Party
Ardsley and Robin Hood
Noah Bentley – Green PartyMike Foster – The Conservative PartySian Gardener – Social Democratic PartyRobert Stephen Jagger – Reform UKShamim Miah – Labour PartyDebra Alison Stretton – Liberal Democrats
Armley
Richard Banks – Labour PartyJohn Frank Beal – Social Democratic PartyPaul Bickerdike – Reform UKEdmond Daramy-Williams – The Conservative PartyFlorian Oscar Alice Hynam – Trade Union and Socialist CoalitionClancy Walker – Green PartyDan Walker – Liberal Democrats
Beeston and Holbeck
Al Garthwaite – Labour PartyChristopher Thomas Howden – Liberal DemocratsAlex Kettle – The Conservative PartyLoreen Gulrez Nix – Reform UKMatt Rogan – Green PartyNick The Duck Guy – The Official Monster Raving Loony PartySasha Watson – Social Democratic Party
Bramley and Stanningley
William Michael Gallimore – The Conservative PartyIan Robert Howell – Social Democratic PartyAnnabell Roodi Kesby – Green PartyDaren David Morrish – Reform UKKevin Ritchie – Labour PartyRosemary Claire Spencer – Liberal Democrats
Burmantofts and Richmond Hill
Shahab Saqib Adris – Green PartyRichard Chaves-Sanderson – Trade Union and Socialist CoalitionLeo Doherty – Reform UKLuke Anthony Farley – Labour PartyDavid Ewan Hollingsworth – Liberal DemocratsZoe Metcalfe – The Conservative PartyDaniel Paul Whetstone – Social Democratic Party
Calverley and Farsley
Andrew Carter – The Conservative PartyEllen Graham – Green PartyStuart McLeod – Liberal DemocratsAndy North – Reform UKKathryn Sara Penny – Labour and Co-operative Party
Chapel Allerton
Kevin Irving Black – The Conservative PartyRichard Cowles – Social Democratic PartyDarren Finlay – Liberal DemocratsCristiana Mirosanu – Green PartyYaseen Saddique – Reform UKEileen Taylor – Labour and Co-operative Party
Cross Gates and Whinmoor
Howard Graham Dews – Yorkshire PartyMartin Francis Hemingway – Green PartyJohn Kennedy – The Conservative PartyJoshua Patrick Lowthion – Liberal DemocratsAli Mansfield – Trade Union and Socialist CoalitionLuke Murrow – Labour PartyMark Nicholson – IndependentPaula-Jane Thackray – Reform UKPaul Anthony Whetstone – Social Democratic Party
Farnley and Wortley
Peter Edward Allison – IndependentPeter Richard Andrews – Liberal DemocratsAnn Blackburn – Green PartyShikha Chaturvedi – The Conservative PartyCharlotte Hill – Labour and Co-operative PartyRichard David Riley – Social Democratic PartyWenzdae Robbins – Reform UK
Garforth and Swillington
Peter Bentley – The Conservative PartyAlexander James Bull – Green PartyDavid Ian Butterfield – Reform UKMark David Dobson – Garforth and Swillington Independents PartyDavid Patrick Nagle – Labour PartyRebecca Cecilia Phillips – Liberal Democrats
Gipton and Harehills
Salma Arif – Labour and Co-operative PartyCallum Daniel Bushrod – Reform UKIain Alastair Dalton – Trade Union and Socialist CoalitionJack Glover – Liberal DemocratsArif Hussain – IndepenentPatricia Helen Jones – The Conservative PartyAndrew Alexander Martin – Social Democratic PartyAndy Nix – UKIPKhizer Qayyum – Green Party
Guiseley and Rawdon
Eliza Ainley – Green PartyPaul James Alderson – The Conservative PartyBob Buxton – Yorkshire PartyRobert Andrew Harder – Reform UKHelen Louise Page – Liberal DemocratsEleanor Frances Thomson – Labour and Co-operative Party
Harewood
David John Bowgett – Labour PartyJohn Cowling – Reform UKClaire Anne Evans – Green PartyJohn William Hills – Liberal DemocratsAngela Jane Bond Wallis – The Conservative PartyPatrick Wright – Independent
Headingley and Hyde Park
Brandon Ashford – Liberal DemocratsNilesh Chohan – Green PartyDella Heptinstall – The Conservative PartyJonathan David Pryor – Labour and Co-operative PartyRyan Richards – Your PartyAndrew Rober Wilde – Reform UK
Horsforth
Khadijah Akhtar – Green partyEmmie Bromley – Labour PartyIvan Petrovich Brookes – Liberal DemocratsChris Calvert – The Conservative PartyCatherine Frances Dobson – Social Democratic PartyMichael Meston – Reform UK
Hunslet and Riverside
Taiwo Funmilayo Adeyemi – The Conservative PartyEd Carlisle – Green PartyRoderic Parker – Liberal DemocratsSarata Sawo – Labour and Co-operative PartyAyesha Shamim – Reform UKPaul Thomas – Social Democratic Party
Killingbeck and Seacroft
David Stephen Dresser – Reform UKThomas Peter Foster – Social Democratic PartyRosemary Gaskell – The Conservative PartyNosheen Majid – Green PartyJohn Tudor – Labour PartyBen Turner-Chastney – Liberal Democrats
Kippax and Methley
Mary Elizabeth Harland – Labour PartyThomas Leadley – Liberal DemocratsConnor Mulhall – The Conservative PartyAndy Phillips – Green PartyChris Weightman – Reform UK
Kirkstall
Hannah Louise Bithell – Labour PartyDawn Julia Collins – The Conservative PartyJacob Andrew Holmes – Reform UKJoe Ingham – Green PartyStuart Long – IndependentGeorge Phillips – Trade Unionist and Socialist CoalitionChris Read – Liberal Democrats
Little London and Woodhouse
Kayleigh Brooks – Labour and Co-operative PartyJonathan Paul Burkitt – The Conservative PartyTJ Diniz Mota – Trade Unionist and Socialist CoalitionEden Hills – Green PartyBradley Evan Holmes – Reform UKGeorge Sykes – Liberal Democrats
Middleton Park
Samson Roberts Adeyemi – The Conservative PartyWayne Alan Dixon – Social Democratic PartyCiaran Lee Head – Green PartyInnocent Igiehon – Labour and Co-operative PartyJames Kendall – Reform UKKristof Szecsi – Liberal Democrats
Moortown
Laura Jane Fisher – Labour PartyRachel Elizabeth Hartshorne – Green PartySajjad Raja – Reform UKSharon Margaret Slinger – Liberal DemocratsRob Speed – The Conservative PartySarah Welbourne – Social Democratic Party
Morley North
Pauline Barron – The Conservative PartyMihai Marcelin Barticel – Liberal DemocratsEdward John Brown – Labour PartyAmber Conyers-Davies – Green PartyJonathan Graves – Reform UKTerry Grayshon – Morley Borough IndependentsDinah Rose Jones – Reform UKJonny Kelsey – Labour PartySimon William Kimberley – Morley Borough IndependentsNigel Perry – Social Democratic PartyKasim Rasool – Green PartyLouisa Mary Singh – The Conservative PartyJames Trueman – Liberal Democrats
Morley South
Matthew Ball – Green PartyJohn Barron – The Conservative PartyAdrian Blake – Labour and Co-operative PartyMichael Burnham – Reform UKMichael James Fox – Liberal DemocratsCordelia Frances Lynan – Social Democratic PartyDarren Mark Senior – Morley Borough Independents
Otley and Yeadon
Mick Bradley – Green PartyColin Andrew Campbell – Liberal DemocratsSimon Mark Dowling – Labour PartyScott Michael Richmond – Reform UKPaul John Spencer Wadsworth – The Conservative Party
Pudsey
Arlan Jones – Green PartyStephen McBarron – Labour PartyRichard James Robinson – Reform UKSimon Anthony Seary – The Conservative PartyJennifer Ann Wilson – Liberal Democrats
Rothwell
Mark Daniels – Social Democratic PartyLindon Dove – Reform UKStewart Golton – Liberal DemocratsStewart Peter Harper – The Conservative PartyArchie Sykes – Labour PartyMikey Sykes – Green Party
Roundhay
Rachel Lynda Cohen – The Conservative PartyNajeeb Iqbal – Liberal DemocratsKathleen Johnstone – Labour PartyCarl Clements Richman – Social Democratic PartySteven Michael Robinson – Reform UKBrannoc Stevenson – Green Party
Temple Newsam
Noah Allerton – Liberal DemocratsJulia Almond – Labour and Co-operative PartyJoshua Benjamin Alston – Green PartyKeely Bannister – Green PartyRichard Barker – Reform UKTim Dowd – Labour and Co-operative PartyKeith Cecil Norman – Liberal DemocratsKimberley Ruth Reid – Social Democratic PartyMaggie Taylor – The Conservative PartyRajiv Kumar Thukral – Social Democratic PartyKieran Richard Thomas White – Reform UK
Weetwood
Simon Christopher Dixon – Green PartyChris Howley – Liberal DemocratsBrijesh Virola – The Conservative PartyRob Walker – Social Democratic PartyIzaak Wilson – Labour and Co-operative PartyPeter Young – Reform UK
Wetherby
Stuard David Burdekin – Reform UKNorma Harrington – The Conservative PartyJonathan Jared Levy – Liberal DemocratsFran Murphy – Green PartyAlex Riddell – Labour and Co-operative Party
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