THERE’S less than a month until this year’s local elections - and the full list of candidates has been revealed to the public.
Taking place on Thursday, May 4 the election will see a total of 21 seats - a third of the council - up for grabs.
Currently in the council chamber there are 45 Labour councillors, nine Lib Dems, three Conservatives, three independent, one Barnsley Independent Group and one councillor from Reform UK.
On the election day, Labour has 12 councillors standing, Lib Dem has three, there’s three independent councillors, and one for each of the Conservatives, Barnsley Independent Group and a sole vacant seat.
Nine Barnsley councillors - who have racked up a total of 121 years of serving the community between them - will not stand for re-election in May.
Couns Neil Danforth, Victoria Felton, Peter Fielding and Andrew Gillis have all served on the council since 2019.
Whilst Couns Martin Dyson, Paul Hand Davis, Chris Lamb and Jenny Platts are also set to step down.
Coun Charlie Wraith has served on the council for almost half a century, and will also not stand for re-election later this year.
Rather than taking place overnight as it has done in previous years, the election count will be held the following day at Metrodome.
The first ward declaration time is expected to be at 12pm, and then the full declaration time at 3pm.
Here’s a full list of all the council candidates standing next month...
Barnsley Central
Steve Bullcock, Yorkshire Party
Martin Joseph O’Donoghue, Labour
Ruby Paul, Independent
Catherine Theresa Rogerson, Lib Dems
Chris Scarfe, Green
Charlotte Helen Wilkinson, Conservative
Cudworth
Mark Brook, Conservative
Anita Cherryholme, Labour
Ken Smith, Green
Elizabeth Kate Waters, Lib Dems
Darfield
Benjamin Harrison, Conservative
Simon Richard Hulme, Lib Dems
Scott Andrew McKenzie, Reform UK
Trevor Smith, Labour
Darton East
Steve Hunt, Lib Dems
John Miller, Conservative
Teresa Wilcockson, Labour
Darton West
Kevin Bennett, Lib Dems
Simon Biltcliffe, Yorkshire Party
Trevor Cave, Labour
Bee Lokkit, Conservative
Lee Adrian Long, Green
Dearne North
Brian John Evans, Lib Dems
Gillian Millner, Conservatives
Martin Morrell, Labour
Maxine Spencer, English Constitution Party
Steve Vajda, Social Democratic Party
Dearne South
Linda Fielding, Lib Dems
Rosemary Jackson, Conservative
Dave Jarvis, Social Democratic Party
Abi Moore, Labour
Janus Polenceusz, English Constitution Party
Dodworth
Sam Christmas, Lib Dems
Lee Ogden, Conservative
Nicholas Mark Riggs, Labour
Hoyland Milton
Michael James Davies, Reform UK
Tom Heyes, Green
Glenn Charles Lawrence, Lib Dems
Cassie Northwood, Independent
Tim Shepherd, Labour
Michael John Toon, Conservative
Angela Ruth Waller, Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
Kingstone
Judy Barnsley, Independent
Peter Gordon Giles, Green
Roger Haw, Conservative
Tracey-Ann Holland, Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
Kevin George Williams, Labour
Philip David Wright, Lib Dems
Monk Bretton
Macaulay Larkin, Conservative
Sue Rose, Lib Dems
Margaret Sheard, Labour
Rachel Jane Stewart, Independent
North East
Raymond Archer, Independent
Ruth Booker, Labour
Tony Devoy, Yorkshire Party
Kieran Oldfield, Lib Dems
Samuel Wilkinson, Conservative
Old Town
Steve Dankerfield, Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
Jo Newing, Labour
Gillian Margaret Nixon, Green
Patrick Dimelow Smith, Lib Dims
Charlotte Anne Sykes, Independent
Clive Watkinson, Conservative
Penistone East
Steve Burkinshaw, Conservative
Alex Burnett, Labour
Amanda Griffin, Independent
Rebecca Jean Trotman, Green
Andrew Stephen Waters, Lib Dems
Penistone West
Paula Button-Roberts, Independent
Roy Garratt, Conservative
David Sean Greenhough, Lib Dems
Frances Helen Avery Nixon, Labour and Co-operative Party
Richard Thomas James Trotman, Green
Rockingham
Karen Fletcher, Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
Brian Gregory, Reform UK
Mark Highmouch, Conservative
Trevor Anthony Mayne, Green
Jane Townsend, Labour
Sue Waters, Lib Dems
Andrew Simon Wray, Independent
Royston
Jennifer Barker, Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
Michael Barraclough, Conservative
Neil Fisher, Independent
Jonathan Paul Hood, Lib Dems
Pauline Mary McCarthy, Labour
St Helen’s
Andrew Millner, Conservative
Matthew Rigden Nicholson, Lib Dems
Neil Gareth Wright, Labour
Stairfoot
James Robert Kitching, Lib Dems
Paul Murray, Labour
Alex Wilkinson, Conservative
Wombwell
Donna Marie Cutts, Reform UK
Brenda Eastwood, Labour
Robert Welton Green, Lib Dems
Debbie Toon, Conservative
Worsbrough
Sarah Calvert, Lib Dems
Sherry Holling, Labour
Jake Lodge, Independent
Katelyn Long, Green
Adrian Thompson, Conservative
