Candidates in Leigh and Atherton — Local Elections 2026

Jamie Hodgkinson

Independent Network

Marie Elizabeth Cooper

Nigel Taylor

Paul Blinkhorn

Atherton South & Lilford

5 candidates

Cobi Hughes

Ellis Rowlands

Martin Farrimond

Michael Thomas Livesey

Richard Thomas Phelan

Golborne & Lowton West

5 candidates

Edward Noel Houlton

Gena Merrett

Kathryn Godfrey

Richard Andrew Scott

Susan Frame

Leigh Central & Higher Folds

5 candidates

Ashley Trigg

Hannah Elizabeth Sephton

Margaret Mary Winstanley

Sarah Victoria Johnson

Tina Kennedy

Leigh South

7 candidates

Jayson Allan Hargreaves

Active on State

Barbara Ann Caren

Christopher John Noon

Liberal Democrats

Dominic Alexis Sutton

Jonathon Hughes

Leon Peters

Neil Andrew Gordon

Social Democratic Party

Leigh West

5 candidates

Canaan Thomas

David Evans

Gerard Joseph Houlton

Lorraine Gillon

Liberal Democrats

Samantha Clare Brown