Barking and Dagenham voters will again have the opportunity to choose their local councillors on May 7. The East London council comprises 51 elected councillors across 19 wards, with Labour currently holding 47 seats. The Green Party holds three seats, and the Conservatives have a single seat in Longbridge. MyLondon has compiled a full list of candidates for each ward. Some wards have multiple seats available, so parties may field more than one candidate. Below is the complete list.
Abbey
Ehsan Attiq (Conservatives), Natasha Caulfield (Reform UK), Manzoor Hussain (Labour), Shazia Majeed (Green Party), Craig Pullen (Reform UK), Malik Rabbani (Liberal Democrats), Regina Rahman (Labour), Kazi MD Reza (Conservatives), Verinder Singh (Green Party).
Alibon
Dorothy Akwaboah (Labour Party), Ikem Chinedu (Conservative and Unionist Party), Abul Khayer (Conservative and Unionist Party), Muazzam Sandhu (Labour Party), Tracey Jayne Sullivan-Sparks (Reform UK), Nick Vandyke (Reform UK), Brianne Wooding (Liberal Democrats).
Barking Riverside
Gabriel Abe (Christian Peoples Alliance), Josie Channer (Labour Party), Cameron Geddes (Labour Party), Jim Holland (Reform UK), Victoria Hornby (Green Party), Marion Lesley Hull (Labour Party), Syed I Kazmi (Liberal Democrats), Musammat Meherun Nessa Khanam (Conservative and Unionist Party), Mizanur Rahman (Green Party), Godfrey Kizito Sekisonge (Green Party), Lon Talambuta (Reform UK), Helal Talukder (Conservative and Unionist Party), Mohammad Gias Uddin (Conservative and Unionist Party), Ion Ursachi (Reform UK). Many new homes have been built at Barking Riverside.
Beam
Muhib Chowdhury (Labour Party), George Elebiju (Liberal Democrats), Mehreen Iqbal (Conservative and Unionist Party), Taye Ishola (Conservative and Unionist Party), Donna R A Lumsden (Labour Party), Joseph Obukowho Omorere (Conservative and Unionist Party), Ionel Popa (Green Party), Anish Samuel (Reform UK), Nina Sontea (Reform UK), Glen Spoor (Labour Party), Mariana Suciu (Reform UK).
Becontree
Muhammad Amin Ahmadzai (Independent), Ann Clark (Reform UK), Edna Fergus (Labour Party), Dave Godfrey (Reform UK), Mohammed Sanaullah Islam (Conservative and Unionist Party), Minhaz Karim Khan (Conservative and Unionist Party), Mary-Ann Murphy (Green Party), Masood Khushi Pasha (Green Party), Muhammad Saleem (Labour Party), Mohammad Yaqoob (Liberal Democrats).
Chadwell Heath
Fuad Ashraf (Reform UK), Sade Bright (Labour Party), Vivian Ebal (Green Party), Muhammad Hamza (Reform UK), Paul Anthony Hewson (Reform UK), Arinze David Nwanna (Conservative and Unionist Party), Simon Perry (Labour Party), Michel Pongo (Labour Party), Debbie Rosaman (Green Party), Mohib Ali Shah (Liberal Democrats), Kamini Devi Sharma (Conservative and Unionist Party), Anonta Candra Sutradhar (Conservative and Unionist Party).
Eastbrook & Rush Green
Djena Balde (Green Party), Princess Opeyemi Bright (Labour Party), Ron Emin (Reform UK), Neil Edgar Hallewell (Conservative and Unionist Party), Lewis Reece Holmes (Independent), Nomsa Munangatire (Liberal Democrats), Sheikh Adil Nadeem (Green Party), Ben Suter (Reform UK), Amimul Ahsan Tanim (Labour Party), James Alfred Arthur Tyler (Conservative and Unionist Party), Ashlea Hetty Wane (Independent).
Eastbury
Md Monzour Ahamed (Conservative and Unionist Party), Zinaida Birlea (Reform UK), Romas Bugaitis (Green Party), Sisir Das (Reform UK), Costel Filipescu (Reform UK), Mohammed Khan (Labour Party), Elizabeth Makinde (Liberal Democrats), Pinar Polat (Green Party), Azizur Rahman (Conservative and Unionist Party), Dominic Twomey (Labour Party), Mohammed Jalal Uddin (Green Party), Maureen Margaret Worby (Labour Party), Joshua Yousaf (Conservative and Unionist Party).
Gascoigne
Ashwin Balluck (Labour Party), Lilufar Begum (Conservative and Unionist Party), Vera Botnari (Reform UK), Ayfer Cebi (Liberal Democrats), Alison Cormack (Labour Party), Kaied Omar Ghiyatha (Labour Party), Tadas Karkauskas (Reform UK), Abedin Kazi (Conservative and Unionist Party), Nazrul Islam Kazi (Green Party), Mihaela Melinte (Reform UK), Moin Ali Quadri (Green Party), Silvia Rotaru (Green Party), Adriana Saldana (Conservative and Unionist Party), Qasim Tahir (Workers Party of Britain).
Goresbrook
Sheikh Faruque Ahmed (Green Party), Poly Rawsan Ara (Green Party), Muhammad Shahid Awan (Liberal Democrats), Colin Paul Bowman (Conservative and Unionist Party), Irma L M Freeborn (Labour Party), Nassaba Guiba (Labour Party), Mohammed Jafar Islam (Conservative and Unionist Party), George Miller (Reform UK), Manjeet Nandra (Reform UK), Sharfaraz Khan Raj (Conservative and Unionist Party), Paul David Robinson (Labour Party), Caleb Van Ryneveld (Reform UK).
Heath
Naveed Akbar (Liberal Democrats), Abdullah Alam (Conservative and Unionist Party), Sunil Idiculla (Reform UK), Corine Mengalle (Conservative and Unionist Party), Ingrid Robinson (Labour Party), Harriet Spoor (Labour Party), Lee Colin Dennis Willoughby (Reform UK).
Longbridge
Marin Adam (Reform UK), Faruk Choudhury (Green Party), Emran Hussain Chowdhury (Labour Party), Chris Fennessy (Reform UK), Rocky Gill (Labour Party), Tim Hunt (Green Party), Mohammed Sahed Hussain (Independent), Val Masson (Labour Party), Mashkura Binta Mazid (Green Party), Joe McNicholl (Conservative and Unionist Party), Shah Rahman (Conservative and Unionist Party), Ghulam Rasool (Liberal Democrats), Lynda Jane Rice (Conservative and Unionist Party), Alexandru Suciu (Reform UK).
Mayesbrook
Raju Ahamad (Green Party), Ray Anderson (Reform UK), Shamsul Azam (Labour Party), Shahana H S Choudhury (Conservative and Unionist Party), Kashif Haroon (Labour Party), Bijoy Johnson (Reform UK), Andy McNab (Reform UK), Tamanna Mirza (Conservative and Unionist Party), Waheed Nazir (Liberal Democrats), Faiza Noreen (Labour Party), Juliano Nunes (Green Party), Mizanur Rahman (Conservative and Unionist Party), Syed Fahim Ahmed Roomy (Green Party).
Northbury
Mehnaz Ali (Liberal Democrats), Saima Ashraf (Labour Party), Scott Cleaver (Reform UK), Curtis Cooper (Green Party), Ahad Hossain (Conservative and Unionist Party), Paul Mateiu (Reform UK), Lesley McNab (Reform UK), Giasuddin Miah (Labour Party), Rasel Miha (Conservative and Unionist Party), Khawar Rizwan Nasim (Green Party), Aiden Nicholls (Green Party), Shibli Rahman (Conservative and Unionist Party), Summya Sohaib (Labour Party).
Parsloes
Alexandra Arnautu (Reform UK), Taiwo Bodunrin (Green Party), Billy Edmunds (Reform UK), Md Meraj Hossain (Conservative and Unionist Party), Syful Islam (Green Party), Robert James Jones (Labour Party), Elizabeth Kangethe (Labour Party), Zulifqar Khan (Liberal Democrats), Mst Marzia Khatun (Green Party), Chika Nwokorie (Conservative and Unionist Party), Sonjoy Kumar Roy (Conservative and Unionist Party), Ripon Sheikh (Reform UK), Jeorgina Da Costa Soares (Labour Party).
Thames View
Ion Adam (Reform UK), Comfort Adegbulugbe (Conservative and Unionist Party), Lucy Baiye-Gaman (Christian Peoples Alliance), Andrew Boff (Conservative and Unionist Party), Emma Louise Grove (Green Party), Lucy Sara Lee (Labour Party), Mine Mayda (Liberal Democrats), Paul David Powlesland (Green Party), Karen Staddon (Reform UK), Sabbir Zamee (Labour Party).
Valence
Mark Akindeko (Conservative and Unionist Party), Kim Barti (Reform UK), Saqib Bashir (Green Party), Mavis Oti Boakye (Reform UK), Syed Feroz Ghani (Labour Party), Barb Gibbs (Reform UK), Amber Ijaz (Liberal Democrats), Laura Iosifescu (Labour Party), Jane Elizabeth Jones (Labour Party), Vivien Ojo (Conservative and Unionist Party), Goodluck Nonye Uba (Conservative and Unionist Party).
Village
Olumide Adeyefa (Liberal Democrats), Sheikh Mostak Ahmed (Conservative and Unionist Party), Arinola Ibiyemi Araba (Conservative and Unionist Party), Ajanta Deb Roy (Labour Party), Graham Gosling (Conservative and Unionist Party), Del Hunter (Reform UK), Marina Sanduleac (Reform UK), Michael David Smith (Reform UK), Phil Waker (Labour Party), Julia Williams (Labour Party).
Whalebone
Andrew Achilleos (Labour Party), Ramesh Babu Boddukola (Reform UK), Ada Emeka Echedom (Conservative and Unionist Party), Adrian Gregory-Brown (Reform UK), Nazrul Islam (Green Party), Herbert Munangatire (Liberal Democrats), Kenneth Okechukwu Odunze (Conservative and Unionist Party), Olesea Pasat (Reform UK), Dixant Patel (Conservative and Unionist Party), Rubina Siddiqui (Labour Party), Mukhtar Yusuf (Labour Party).
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