Candidates in Bradford East — Local Elections 2026
These are the people standing in the upcoming local elections on 7 May 2026. Click a candidate to learn more about them.
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Bolton and Undercliffe
16 candidates
Andrew Tetley
Benjamin James Senior
Bruce Gulland
Chris Norton
David Ward
Helen Love
Imtiaz Sabir
Jon Barras
Julie Humphreys
larlaithe Ward
Md Zafar Niaz
Muhammad Afzal
Rajdeep Kaur Bhatti
Safeer Hussain Ghori
Suhail Choudhry
Tasaver Hussain Syed
Bowling and Barkerend
16 candidates
Bernard Blessington
Gavin Lee
Gordon North
Hassan Uzzaman Khan
Howard Middleton
Imran Ahmed Khan
Malik Farouq
Mark William Hall
Mazeena Zaki
Mukhtar Ali
Rizwana Jamil
Sadaf Dar
Sakib Ali
Sangeeta Kauser Khan
Wendy Elaine Barras
Yakubu Mandafiya John
Bradford Moor
17 candidates
Adil Afzal
Andy Rickford
Bushra Parveen
Diane McInnes
Gareth Ingham
Ibrar Ali
Jafrul Kabir Gazi
ljaz Ahmed Choudhary
Mohammad Shafiq
Muhammad Ashraf
Neil Clifford Ford
Raja Shahzaib Khan
Riaz Ahmed
Roger Pinto-Smith
Ushman Shabir
Wajid Jahangir
Zafar Iqbal
Eccleshill
19 candidates
Brendan Robert Stubbs
Chris Hayden
Jamshad
Dominic Sheeran
Gillian Thorne
Ian Parsons
Jayne Margaret Morgan
John Keith Riley-Holmes
Junaid Sawar
Kevin Hullah
Khalid Mahmood
Laura Maddie Fretwell
Nadeem Butt
Raja Sakhawat Hussain
Selina Ward-Nicholson
Suzanne Julia Lubenko
Vera Martin
Wajid Rasool
Zubair Hussain
Idle and Thackley
15 candidates
Aislin Naylor
Alun Owen Griffiths
David Bryant
David Llewelyn Mills
Evelyne Godfrey
Gareth David Logan
Jeanette Sunderland
John Michael Riley
Melissa Jacobs
Paul Wright
Richard Edward John Wightman
Sally Cook
Stuart Hurlbut
Tess Lawrence
Tom MacPherson le Maire
Little Horton
18 candidates
Abdul Sattar
Ashfaq Rasool
Christine Boyd
Dave Leonard
Imran Khan
Jacquie Jarvis
John Malcolm Charles Cole
Jude Sykes Rowe
Maj Asghar
Maz Zaman
Noor Elahi
Nurjahan Ali Arobi
Paul Roper
Shafi Ullah Khan
Sophie Vanicat
Taj Salam
Talat Sajawal
Will Grant