VOTERS can make their voices heard when a third of Wigan MBC councillors stand for re-election.
Elections take place next Thursday, May 2 with polling booths open from 8am to 9pm. One seat in each ward is up for re-election.
The full list of candidates is:
ASHTON-GOLBORNE: Stanley Charles Barnes (Community Action), Andrew John Bullen (Labour), Jonathan Charles Cartwright (Conservative), Marian Markham (Socialist Alliance).
ATHERTON: Ann Davies (C), Susan Loudon (L), Patricia Mary Myler (Lib Dem), Stephen David Shallcross (Independent).
BEDFORD-ASTLEY: Frederick Bown Walker (L). Unopposed.
HINDLEY: William Stuart Shaw (L), Andre John Paul Walker (C).
HINDLEY GREEN: Rosina Oxley (C) William Stanley Simmons (L).
HINDSFORD: Andrew William Graham (C), Stephen Michael Hall (I), Neil Hogg (L D), Philip Loudon (L).
HOPE CARR: Kevin Anderson (L), Keith William Fry (SA), Andrew John Oxley (C), Peter Antonio Solinas (CA).
LEIGH CENTRAL: Daniel Phillip Burrows (CA), Timothy Christopher Matthews (C), Peter Richard Charles Smith (L).
LEIGH EAST: Derek Davies (C), Anne Turnock (L).
LIGHTSHAW: Peter Ramsey Franzen (CA), James Nelson Grundy (C), Tom Sherratt (L).
TYLDESLEY EAST: Richard John Derricutt (LD), Brian Malcolm Wilson (L).
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