A host of councils, including Craven District Council, are going to the polls on Thursday May 2nd. Councillors in more than 150 local authorities are standing for re-election with around 6000 seats at stake. The list of candidates for the Craven Area are as follows:

AIRE VALLEY WITH LOTHERSDALE WARD 2 seats Patricia Fairbank - Conservative Party Robert Richard Greaves - Conservative Party Mark Andrew Wheeler - Liberal Democrat	BARDEN FELL WARD 1 seat Robert Geoffrey Heseltine - Independent Christopher Anthony Knowles-Fitton - Conservative Party
BENTHAM WARD 2 seats Manuel Colon Camacho - Independent Gerald Hurtley - Conservative Party John Arthur Pilkington - Liberal Democrat	COWLING WARD 1 seat - Uncontested John Alderson - Independent
EMBSAY-WITH-EASTBY WARD 1 seat - Uncontested John Andrew Quinn - Conservative Party	GARGRAVE AND MALHAMDALE WARD 2 seats Stephen Herbert Kay Butcher - Conservative Party David Gordon Hugh Crawford - Conservative Party Carlton John Hayes - Independent Andrew Wood - Liberal Democrat
GLUSBURN WARD 2 seats Ian Bannister - Conservative Party Philip Melvin Barrett - Independent Arthur Dixon - Independent Peter Kenneth Seward - Independent Jennifer Ann Wood - Conservative Party	GRASSINGTON WARD 1 seat - Uncontested Peter Ian Walbank - Conservative Party
HELLIFIELD AND LONG PRESTON WARD 1 seat - Uncontested Helen Elizabeth Firth - Conservative Party	INGLETON AND CLAPHAM WARD 2 seats - Uncontested David Lloyd Ireton - Independent Carl Henry Lis - Independent
PENYGHENT WARD 1 seat Anthony John Macaulay - Independent Richard Charles Welch - Conservative Party	SETTLE AND RIBBLEBANKS WARD 2 seats Elizabeth May (Beth) Graham - Liberal Democrat David Albert Heather - Liberal Democrat Terence Patrick Murray - Conservative Party Charles Anthony Michael (Tony) Price - Conservative Party
SKIPTON EAST WARD 2 seats Dennis Hall - Independent Duncan John Hall - Labour Party Christopher James (Chris) Harbron - Conservative Party Pamela Heseltine - Conservative Party Eric Jaquin - Liberal Democrat Darren John Moorby - Liberal Democrat Melvin Carl Seward - Independent	SKIPTON NORTH WARD 2 seats Michael Paul Doyle - Liberal Democrat Michael Ronald Hill - Independent Marcia Turner - Conservative Party Paul Howard Whitaker - Conservative Party
SKIPTON SOUTH WARD 2 seats Alex Bentley - Conservative Party Barry Steven Blood - Conservative Party Andrew george Cook - Independent Frances Jeanette Cook - Independent Andrew (Andy) Solloway - Liberal Democrat	SKIPTON WEST WARD 2 seats Paul Albert English - Liberal Democrat Pauleen (Polly) English - Liberal Democrat Margaret Ellen Spence - Conservative Party Norman Spence - Conservative Party
SUTTON-IN-CRAVEN WARD 2 seats Barbara Elaine Barwick-Nicholson - Conservative Party Kenneth (Ken) Hart - Independent Stephen Spencer Place - Independent Dee Pollitt - Conservative Party	UPPER WHARFEDALE WARD 1 seat Kenneth Luty - Independent James (Jim) Monksfield - Liberal Democrat John Sayer - Conservative Party
WEST CRAVEN WARD 1 seat John Binns - Conservative Party Robert James Mason - Independent Andrew Rankine - Liberal Democrat