A total of 80 candidates will contest the forthcoming last-ever “thirds” Derby City Council election taking place on Thursday, May 5, to win a seat on the council for just one year. From next year, there will be an election every four years with all 51 council seats up for grabs in 2023.
But in the meantime for 2022, there are a number of former councillors nominated and three of the city’s political group leaders are defending their seats – Ruth Skelton (Lib Dems) Chris Poulter (Conservatives) and Alan Graves senior (Reform Derby). Nadine Peatfield, Labour group deputy leader, is also defending her seat.
Among the returning former councillors are John Whitby, Paul Bayliss, Martin Rawson, Farhatullah Khan, Ashiq Hussain and Richard Hudson, who will line up to compete for one of 17 seats under the outgoing thirds system, which has seen an election every three years and the fourth year without an election.
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The candidates are standing for the Conservative, Green, Labour, Labour and Co-operative, Liberal Democrat, Reform Derby and Reform UK and English Democrats parties, together with one independent nominee. There are two fewer candidates than last year.
Elections should have taken place in 2020, but were postponed to 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Some councillors have decided not to stand again including Paul Bettany and Stephen Willoughby. Deputy mayor Alan Grimadell, who won his Darley seat by one vote last year, after the retirement of then Labour leader Lisa Eldret who was three years into her four-year tenure, finds himself contesting the seat again. Previous mayors standing are Peter Berry, John Whitby and Frank Harwood.
Of the seats up for grabs, eight are Conservative seats, four are Labour, three Liberal Democrat and two Reform Derby.
Overall, the current situation on the Conservative-led city council is: Conservatives 21 seats, Labour 13, Liberal Democrats nine, Reform Derby six and two independent councillors. The Conservatives have been in minority control of the authority since 2018.
The ward with the most nominations is Chellaston, where in addition to the main political groups, an independent candidate, Celia Ingall, is standing.
Voting in person will take place at 87 polling stations across the city but about 30,000 people are expected to cast their vote in advance using a postal vote.
This is the full list of candidates for Derby City Council in 2022:
Abbey Ward
Paul Thomas Hezelgrave – Labour and Co-operative Party *
Helen Georgina Hitchcock – Green Party
Adam Mark Hurt – Conservative
Farhatullah Khan – Liberal Democrats
Julie Claire Paxton – Reform Derby and Reform UK
Allestree Ward
David Charles Adams – Reform Derby and Reform UK
Andrew James Bird – Liberal Democrats
Patrick Richey Green – Labour
Tony Mott – Green Party
Roy Michael Webb – Conservative *
Alvaston Ward
Peter Stanley Berry – Conservative
David Rhys Edwards – Liberal Democrats
Alan Wayne Graves- Reform Derby and Reform UK *
Tom Spray – Labour and Cooperative Party
Arboretum Ward
Stephen Maurice Handley – Reform Derby and Reform UK
Edward Jon Harrison – Conservative
Shiraz Khan – Labour *
Jairo Fernando Marrero – Liberal Democrats
Blagreaves Ward
Saquib Amin – Labour
David Rodney Jennings – Conservative
Ruth Skelton – Liberal Democrats *
James Wise – Reform Derby and Reform UK
Boulton Ward
Chris Howlett- Conservative
Alan Lindsey – Reform Derby and Reform UK
Iain Parker – Labour
Jane Elizabeth Katherine Webb – Liberal Democrats
Chaddesden Ward
John Phillip Banks – Labour and Co-operative
Rob Cooper – Conservative *
Stevie Hardy – Green Party
Glenda Anne Howcroft – Liberal Democrats
Alfred Vaughan Saxby – Reform Derby and Reform UK
Chellaston Ward
Celia Ingall – Independent
Ross McCristal – Conservative *
Viv Pointon – Labour
Daniel Peter Thompson – Green Party
George Daniel Warren – Reform Derby and Reform UK
Paul James Wilson – Liberal Democrats
Darley Ward
Alan Leslie Grimadell – Conservative *
Lucy Ann Murphy – Reform Derby and Reform UK
Carmel Swan – Labour and Co-operative
Jane Sarah Temple – Green Party
Gregory Philip Webb – Liberal Democrats
Derwent Ward
Gaynor Collick – Conservative
Gouy de Muyncke – Reform Derby and Reform UK
Richard Hudson – Liberal Democrats
Martin James Rawson – Labour and Co-operative
Littleover Ward
Carol Lynne Bradley – Reform Derby and Reform UK
Lucy Helen Care – Liberal Democrats *
Jak Jason Edward Carr – Green Party
Philip Andrew Hutchinson – Labour and Co-operative
Ed Packham – Conservative
Mackworth Ward
Carmine Branco – Liberal Democrats
Nigel John Caulton – Reform Derby and Reform UK
Adrian Michael Pegg – Conservative *
Sam Ward – Green
John Michael Whitby – Labour
Mickleover Ward
Jonathan Paul Bayliss – Labour
Alison Joyce Holmes – Conservative *
Nick Northover – Liberal Democrats
Steve Peach – Reform Derby and Reform UK
Holly Rushbrooke – Green Party
Normanton Ward
Anthony Blaney – Reform Derby and Reform UK
Abdul Basit Jabbar – Liberal Democrats
Jamie Mulhall – Conservative
Balbir Singh Sandhu – Labour and Co-operative *
Oakwood Ward
Mick Barker – Conservative *
Helen Barbara Caulton – Reform Derby and Reform UK
Molly Christodoulou – Green Party
Frank Harwood – Liberal Democrats
Neil Wilson – Labour and Co-operative
Sinfin Ward
David William Black – English Democrats
Jay Joshi – Conservative
Paul John Lind – Liberal Democrats
Brenden De-Clive May – Reform Derby and Reform UK
Nadine Dawn Louise Peatfield – Labour *
Spondon Ward
Stephen William Fowke – Reform Derby and Reform UK
Ashiq Hussain – Labour
Christopher Paul Poulter – Conservative *
Victor Thomas Wood – Green Party
Philip Anthony Wray – Liberal Democrats
* standing for re-election