VOTERS will go to the polls in Basildon on Thursday, 5 May to decide who represents them in 14 of the district council's 16 wards.

The candidates standing for election are:

Billericay East Ward

• Peter Bunyan (Labour)
• Laura Natalie Clark (Lib Dem)
• Andrew Peter Schrader (Conservative)

Billericay West Ward

• Sally Bunyan (Labour)
• Anthony Michael Hedley (Conservative)
• Timothy John Nicklin (Lib Dem)

Burstead

• Simon Baggott (Conservative)
• Christopher John Daffin (Lib Dem)
• Malcolm Reid (Labour)

Crouch

• Tracey Hilton (Labour)
• Terri Lilian Joan Sargent (Conservative)

Fryerns

• Vivien Jennifer Howard (Lib Dem)
• David Thomas Kirkman (Labour)
• Sandeep Singh Sandhu (Conservative)

Laindon Park

• Christopher David Bateman (British Democrats)
• David John Goddard (Labour)
• Jeff Henry (Conservative)
• Stephen Edward McCarthy (Lib Dem)
• David Murray (Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition)

Langdon Hills

• Chris Allen (Conservative)
• Walter Brown (Independent)
• Christopher John May (Liberal Democrats)
• Clarence Zwengunde (Labour)

Lee Chapel North

• Susanna Caira-Neeson (Labour)
• Norma Vivien Saggers (Reform UK)
• Deepak Shukla (Conservative)

Nethermayne

• Stephen William Nice (Lib Dem)
• Chima Okorafor (Conservative)
• Kerry James Daryl Luke Smith (Independent)
• Dylan Montgomery Wright (Labour)

Pitsea North west

• Jack Anthony Ferguson (Labour)
• Sam Gascoyne (Conservative)
• Martin Keith Howard (Lib Dem)

Pitsea South East

• Michael Baker (Labour)
• Luke MacKenzie (Conservative)

Wickford Castledon

• Stewart Adrian Mott (Lib Dem)
• Alex Myers (Conservative)
• Charlie Sansom (Wickford Independents)
• Matthew Klaus Wright (Labour)

Wickford North

• Trevor Hammond (Wickford Independents)
• Nicola Denise Hoad (Lib Dem)
• Peter John Holliman (Conservative)
• Joseph David Nemeth (Labour)

Wickford Park

• Alan Ronald Ball (Wickford Independents)
• George Elliot Jeffery (Conservative)
• Brenda Joyce Webb (Labour)

A full list of polling stations can be found via this link

Elections should have taken place for places on Bowers Gifford & North Benfleet Parish Council and Wickford Town Council but there were not enough candidates so all those nominated have been appointed as councillors.