Candidates in South Shields — 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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Beacon and Bents
13 candidates
Aaron Michael Cain
Ahmed Khan
Daniel Edward Stuart O'Neill
Edith Tye
Fay Cunningham
Georgia Partridge
Jabed Hossain
James Michael Stark
Mark Andrew Berriman
Rana Rahman
Sarah McKeown
Scott Lancaster
Sue Stonehouse
Biddick and All Saints
10 candidates
Cleadon Park
14 candidates
Colin Noble
Daniel Cook
George Robert William Elsom
Heidi Wildhirt
Helen Louise Ross
Justin Knight
Karen Wood
Ken Mitchell
Lewis Bridgewood
Richard Pressling
Russell Stephen Clifton
Steve Harrison
Tariq Jaman
Vicky Harrison
Cleadon and East Boldon
12 candidates
Abbey Muquith
David Herbert
Dawn Wildhirt
John Robert Temple
Mervyn Carl William Owen
Nick Markwick
Peter Atherton
Phil Barron
Samuel Thomas Hill
Scott Oliver
Shirley Ford
Tina Lindsay Roche
Harton
12 candidates
Alex Robert Clarke
Ann Margaret Brenen
Declan Guiney
Jim Mouat
Karen Louise Myers
Kathryn Kaupa
Michael Henry Clare
Michael Thomas Pittuck
Neil Maxwell
Pat Hay
Shaun Barclay
Susan Traynor
Horsley Hill
13 candidates
Audrey Fenwick
Charlie Medcalf
Darren Henry
Dorothy Jane Grainger
Eileen Leask
Erin Maxwell
Gill Brown
Jason Stephen Carr
Owen Batchelor
Pat Newman
Phil Brown
Shamol Shahran
Vicki Gardener
Simonside and Rekendyke
12 candidates
Abdul Rob Mohammed
Adrian Thomas Cartwright
Anthony Fenwick
Edward Malcolm
Jimmy King
Kenneth George Wood
Luke Perry
Lynne Ann Proudlock
Mark Nellist
Michelle Fascione
Phillip Charles Brown
Sophia Malik
West Park
9 candidates
Westoe
13 candidates
Abhinav Kumar
Andrew Guy
Jordan Buncan
Karen Pittuck
Kate Owens-Palmer
Liam Walker
Luke Andrew Robson
Nathan Slight
Noor Ahmed
Paul Brenen
Sharlene May Tooley
Tracey Windle
William Alan Jamieson
