VOTERS can make their voices heard next week 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).