The Durham County Council and parish and town council elections will take place on 1 May and will decide the authority’s political future for the next four years.
Residents across the county will be voting to decide who will be elected as their County Councillors for the 51 electoral divisions within County Durham.
A total of 98 councillors will be elected, down from 126.
At the last local election in 2021, the Labour Party lost overall control of the county council for the first time in 100 years. The current Joint Administration in charge of the authority is made up of Liberal Democrats, Conservatives and Independents.
Annfield Plain and Tanfield
- Karen Allison – Reform UK
- Kevin Briggs – Conservative Party
- Joyce Charlton – Derwentside Independents
- Darren Grimes – Reform UK
- Olga Milburn – Labour Party
- Joan Nicholson – Derwentside Independents
- Sopha Phal – Liberal Democrats
- Garry Richardson – Conservative Party
- Jeanette Stephenson – Labour Party
- Sarah Twigg – Green Party
Aycliffe North and Middridge
- Lindsey Aston – Liberal Democrats
- Tony Beddard – Independent
- Dorothy Bowman – Independent
- Luke Ellis – Labour Party
- Tim McGuinness – Reform UK
- Michael Murphy – Labour Party
- Jonathan Park – Green Party
- Michael Stead – Liberal Democrats
- Tony Stubbs – Conservative Party
- David Sutton-Lloyd – Conservative Party
- Clive Taylor-Sholl – Reform UK
Aycliffe South
- Tunde Akinsanya – Liberal Democrats
- Tony Armstrong – Independent
- Martin Ashcroft – Independent
- Jim Atkinson – Labour Party
- Nicole Brown – Reform UK
- John Clark – Labour Party
- Neale Cooley – Green Party
- Andrew Eales – Reform UK
- John Grant – Reform UK
- George Gray – Independent
- Paul Howell – Conservative Party
- Toyin Ogunyemi – Labour Party
- Kyle Robinson – Liberal Democrats
- Ken Robson – Independent
- John Woodward – Liberal Democrats
Barnard Castle
- Christopher Bewley – Reform UK
- Chris Foote-Wood – Labour Party
- Ted Henderson – Conservative Party
- John Hogg – Green party
- Richard Huzzey – Liberal Democrats
Belmont
- Christopher Elliot – Reform UK
- Paul Finley – Labour Party
- Steve Gilley – Reform UK
- Val Hawes – Labour Party
- Eric Mavin – Liberal Democrats
- Lesley Mavin – Liberal Democrats
- Gary Parking – Conservative Party
- Joel Graham Thornton – Green Party
Benfieldside
- Kevin Earley – Labour Party
- Sandra Grindle – Reform UK
- Andrew Kilburn – Reform UK
- Dan Lowes – Conservative Party
- David Lowes – Conservative Party
- Joanne Nattrass – Liberal Democrats
- Peter Oliver – Independent
- Stephen Robinson – Independent
- Terry Rooney – Liberal Democrats
- Michael Wass – Labour Party
Bishop Auckland
- John Brigstock – Independent
- Lyndsey Fox – Reform UK
- Kelly Guest – Labour Party
- S J Hannahs – Green Party
- Mike Harker – Independent
- Luke Allan Holmes – Conservative Party
- Tessa Hope – Labour Party
- Joanne Howey – Independent
- John Kinvig – Reform UK
- James Middleton – Conservative Party
- Tom Redmond – Reform UK
- Michael Siddle – Labour Party
- Arnold Simpson – Liberal Democrats
- Adeline Tchana – Conservative Party
- Christine Thelwell – Liberal Democrats
- Sam Zair – Independent
Blackhalls and Hesledens
- Victoria Bartch – Conservative Party
- Rob Crute – Labour Party
- Gary Johnson – Reform UK
- Neil Thompson – Liberal Democrats
Bowburn and Coxhoe
- Viv Anderson – Labour Party
- Catherine Birchmore – Green Party
- Jan Blakey – Independent
- George Chissell – Liberal Democrats
- Kyle Genner – Reform UK
- Shaun Gibson – Labour Party
- Alexander Greenaway – Liberal Democrats
- Gary Hutchinson – Independent
- Lenno Lauchlan – Labour Party
- Dorothy Luckhurst – Conservative Party
- Jane McAndrew – Conservative Party
- Kimberley Noble – Liberal Democrats
- Clive Rowland – Conservative Party
- Benjamin Straughair – Reform UK
- Michael Watson – Reform UK
Brandon
- Anne Bonner – Labour Party
- Jonathan Elmer – Green Party
- Priscilla Elmer – Green Party
- Andrew Fullard – Reform UK
- Abrial Jerram – Liberal Democrats
- Mark Leigh – Reform UK
- Prem Raghvani – Liberal Democrats
- Nick RIppin – Labour Party
- Carolyne Smith – Independent
- Paul Taylor – Independent
- Billy Walker – Conservative Party
Castle Eden and Passfield
- Mary Bell – Labour Party
- James Coulson – Conservative Party
- Karen Hawley – Independent
- David Hodgson – Liberal Democrats
- Susan McDonnell – North East party
- Scott Woodhouse – Reform UK
Chester-le-Street North
- David Brown – Conservative Party
- Tom Chittenden – Social Democratic Party
- Karren Fantarrow-Darby – Independent
- Andrew Husband – Reform UK
- Derek Morse – Green Party
- Philip Nathan – Liberal Democrats
- Julie Scurfield – Labour Party
- Tracie Smith – Labour Party
- Antony Teasdale – Reform UK
Chester-le-Street South
- Harry Clark – Labour Party
- Geoff Dovaston – Reform UK
- Sebastian Gradzki – Conservative Party
- Andrew Haney – Liberal Democrats
- Eileen McKnight-Smith – Labour Party
- Bill Moist – Independent
- Alan Ostle – Green Party
- Ellie Sargeant – Conservative Party
- Paul Sexton – Independent
- Adele Taggart – Reform UK
Chilton
- Stephen Bowron – Reform UK
- Julie Cairns – Independent
- Angus Ferguson – Labour Party
- Catherine Hart – Conservative Party
- Carole Lattin – Liberal Democrats
- Sue Reece – Independent
Consett North
- Rob Moran – Labour Party
- Trevor Newsom – Reform UK
- Will Robinson – Conservative Party
- Kathryn Rooney – Liberal Democrats
Consett South
- Dominic Haney – Liberal Democrats
- Phillip Marshall – Labour Party
- Rachel McEnaeny – Conservative Party
- Michael McGaun – Reform UK
Craghead and South Moor
- Neil Bradbury – Liberal Democrats
- John Cook – Reform UK
- Ian Davison – Conservative Party
- Carole Hampson – Labour Party
- Aaron Hillam – Reform UK
- Les Timbley – Labour Party
Crook
- Steven Bamlett – Green Party
- Paul Bean – Reform UK
- Michael Beeforth – Labour Party
- Mike Currah – Conservative Party
- Mary Hall – Labour Party
- Patricia Jopling – Conservative Party
- Nick Lion – Liberal Democrats
- Geoffrey Martin – Green Party
- Anne Reed – Independent
- Robbie Rodiss – Reform UK
- Adrian Schulman – Reform UK
- John Wilson – Labour Party
Dalton and Dawdon
- George Anderson – Reform UK
- Robert Arthur – Seaham Community Party
- Giuseppe Bignardi – Liberal Democrats
- Susan Faulkner – Seaham Community Party
- Jack McGlenen – Reform UK
- Mark Shanks – Conservative Party
- Kevin Shaw – Labour Party
- June Watson – Labour Party
Deerness
- Sarah Banks – Green Party
- Matthew Burnard – Reform UK
- John Burt – Liberal Democrats
- Sean Healy – Reform UK
- Jimmy Jamieson – Labour Party
- Edwin Simpson – Liberal Democrats
- Michael Drummond Moverley Smith – Conservative Party
- Wendy Smith – Conservative Party
- Marion Wilson – Labour Party
- Liz Wright – Green Party
Delves Lane
- David Bowerbank – Liberal Democrats
- Jane Brown – Labour Party
- Nazcat Stephen Haney – Liberal Democrats
- Kenny Hope – Reform UK
- Angela Sterling – Conservative Party
- Simon Stewart-Piercy – Labour Party
- Jacqueline Teasdale – Reform UK
- Michelle Walton – Conservative Party
Derwent and Pont Valley
- Veronica Andrews – Labour Party
- Tonia Atkinson – Liberal Democrats
- Jacob Boneham – Conservative Party
- Gavin Brydon – Reform UK
- Eileen Elliott – Derwentside Independents
- Tom Hubbuck – Labour Party
- Craig Marshall – Reform UK
- Declan Mulholland – Labour Party
- Stephen Murray – Liberal Democrats
- Alan Shield – Derwentside Independents
- Richard Simpson – Green Party
- Saffron Sims-Brydon – Reform UK
- Watts Stelling – Derwentside Independents
Easington and Shotton
- John Bailey – Reform UK
- Tom Baker – Conservative Party
- Howard Brown – Reform UK
- Sophie Brown – Independent
- Leeann Clarkson – Labour Party
- Ivan Cochrane – Independent
- Omide Deinali – Labour Party
- Christopher Hood – Independent
- Rob Moore – Independent
- Chukwuka Okuchukwu – Liberal Democrats
- Kye Slawson-Powell – Conservative Party
- Angela Surtees – Labour Party
- Louise Taylor – Reform UK
Elvet Gilesgate and Shincliffe
- Stephen Ashfield – Green Party
- George Carter – Conservative Party
- Stacey Deinali – Labour Party
- David Freeman – Liberal Democrats
- Xavier Hale – Reform UK
- Rory Handy – Labour Party
- Ellie Hopgood – Liberal Demcorats
- Graham Lee – Conservative Party
- Isaac Lucan – Reform UK
- Jamie Pearson – Green Party
Evenwood
- James Cosslett – Conservative Party
- Becky Land – Labour Party
- Robert Potts – Reform UK
- Michael Stonehouse – Green Party
- Anne Woodward – Liberal Democrats
Ferryhill
- Carole Atkinson – Labour Party
- Curtis Bihari – Labour Party
- Matthew Choi – Green Party
- Lisa Coxon – Conservative Party
- David Farry – Conservative Party
- Sandra Kirby – Liberal Democrats
- John Lathan – UKIP
- Paul Mountford – Reform UK
- Glenys Newby – Independent
- Bob Peach – Liberal Democrats
- Joe Quinn – Reform UK
Framwellgate and Newton Hall
- Carolyn Baker – Conservative Party
- Kaye Burns – Labour Party
- Neville Forbes – Reform UK
- Amanda Hopgood – Liberal Democrats
- Elizabeth Marshall – Conservative Party
- Irene Ostle – Green Party
- Elizabeth Pears – Liberal Democrats
- Rachael Perry – Labour Party
- Matthew Smith – Conservative Party
- Valerie Speed – Labour Party
- Colin Toghill – Reform UK
- Mark Wilkes – Liberal Democrats
- Karon Willis – Independent
Horden and Dene House
- Dawn Bellingham – Reform UK
- Chris Cain – Labour Party
- Nigel Cassidy – Conservative Party
- Arlene Childs – Independent
- June Clark – Labour Party
- John Cottier – Reform UK
- Paul Maddison – Independent
- Owen Temple – Liberal Democrats
- Matthew Tough – Independent
Lanchester and Burnhope
- Alison Gray – Labour Party
- Stephen Harrison – Reform UK
- Doug Oliver – Conservative Party
- Jeanette Williams – Liberal Democrats
Langley and Esh
- Andrea Brown – Reform UK
- Joshua Lightfoot – Green Party
- Alex Neil – Liberal Democrats
- Mark Shaw – Conservative Party
- Michael Toner – Labour Party
Lower Teesdale
- Jillian Campbell – Reform UK
- Marc Cole – Green Party
- Jasmine Fox – Reform UK
- Sarah Hannan – Green Party
- Simon Land – Labour Party
- Noah McCourt – Labour Party
- George Richardson – Conservative Party
- James Rowlandson – Conservative Party
- Wico Van Mourik – Liberal Democrats
Lumley and West Rainton
- Alan Bell – Independent
- Adam Carter-Jones – Reform UK
- Bisserka Gaydarska – Green Party
- Paul Greenwood – Labour Party
- David Haswell – Liberal Democrats
- Philip Heaviside – Independent
- Lyn Leach – Labour Party
- Ewan Marshall – Reform UK
- Thomas Shanks – Conservative Party
Murton
- Robert Adcock-Forster – Labour Party
- Brian Brown – Independent
- David Cuming – Reform UK
- Julie Griffiths – Labour Party
- Antoni Milian – Liberal Democrats
- Stephen Robson – Independent
- Mark Rowney – Reform UK
- Brian Wareham – Conservative Party
Nevilles Cross
- Gary Black – Reform UK
- Liz Brown – Liberal Democrats
- Jack Hughes – Green Party
- Gabriel Ridley – Labour Party
- Katrina Rockett – Reform UK
- Jack Saville-Sneath – Reform UK
- Elizabeth Scott – Liberal Democrats
- Deborah Whitfield – Conservative Party
- Les Wilson – Labour Party
North Lodge
- Glenn Batey – Labour Party
- Chris Dale – Green Party
- Darren Hawkes – Reform UK
- Krishnarajasri Krishnapillai – Conservative Party
- Craig Martin – Liberal Democrats
Pelton
- Alison Batey – Labour Party
- Steve Biggs – Reform UK
- Ian Cross – Reform UK
- Andrew Gray – Green Party
- Alan Neil – Liberal Democrats
- Paul Pringle – Labour Party
- Brian Quirey – Reform UK
- Nigel Van Zwanenberg – Liberal Democrats
- Adam Walker – Liberal Democrats
- Darren Whitfield – Conservative Party
- Danny Wood – Labour Party
Peterlee
- Ray Burnip – Independent
- Mary Cartwright – North East Party
- Michael Cassidy – Conservative Party
- Louise Fenwick – Labour Party
- Steven Franklin – Reform UK
- David Hawley – Independent
- Diane Howarth – Independent
- Audrey Laing – Labour Party
- Heather Leake – Liberal Democrats
- Dawn Saunders – Reform UK
- Al Wilkinson – North East Party
Pittington and Sherburn
- Rhys Burriss – Reform UK
- Malcolm Colledge – Conservative Party
- Bill Kellett – Labour Party
- Maggie Tallerman – Green Party
- Stephen White – Liberal Democrats
Sacriston and Witton Gilbert
- Nicholas Kasch – Green Party
- Hugh Massey – Liberal Democrats
- Andrew Page – Labour Party
- James Pickard – Reform UK
- Andy Przybysz – Liberal Democrats
- Timothy Robson – Reform UK
- Emma Waldock – Labour Party
Seaham
- Cristopher Fairs – Reform UK
- Andrew Harrison – Reform UK
- Stephen Joseph – Green Party
- Tolu Kolawole – Conservative Party
- Rochelle Laine – Labour Party
- Ian McAndrew – Conservative Party
- John Purvis – Labour Party
- Rafe Richards – Liberal Democrats
- Barry Taylor – Seaham Community Party
- Stephen Wayman – Seaham Community Party
Sedgefield
- Ian Catchpole – Reform UK
- Rebecca Dixon – Green Party
- Lucy Gibson – Labour Party
- Philip Layton – Liberal Democrats
- Chris Lines – Independent
- Christine Moore – Reform UK
- Kester Noble – Labour Party
- Elaine Peeke – Conservative Party
- Charlotte Shaw – Liberal Democrats
- Richard Wilkes – Green Party
Shildon and Dene Valley
- Leanne Barrett – Liberal Democrats
- Jack Charlton – Conservative Party
- Charlie Kay – Labour Party
- Fred Langley – Independent
- Lynn O’Neill – Independent
- Clive Parker – Conservative Party
- Shirley Quinn – Labour Party
- Michael Ramage – Reform UK
- Kate Rowland – Reform UK
- Michael Shaw – Liberal Democrats
- James Stephenson – Reform UK
- Samantha Townsend – Labour Party
Spennymoor
- Christopher Coxon – Conservative Party
- David Evans – Conservative Party
- Stephen Gilling – Labour Party
- Liz Maddison – Independent
- Pete Molloy – Independent
- Liss Owen – Liberal Democrats
- Dean Ranyard – Liberal Democrats
- Jabez Sherrington – Labour Party
- Ernest Spowart – Reform UK
- William Thorkildsen – Reform UK
Stanley
- Charles Aldous – Conservative Party
- Christine Blatchford – Reform UK
- James Kane – Labour Party
- Carl Marshall – Labour Party
- Paddy McGough – Independent
- David Rolfe – Liberal Democrats
- David Walton – Reform UK
- Frankie Ward – Independent
Thornley and Wheatley Hill
- Pamela Askell – Liberal Democrats
- Neil Craggs – Reform UK
- Jake Miller – Labour Party
- Graham Southall – Conservative Party
Trimdon and Wingate
- Mary-Lynn Franklin – Reform UK
- Lucy Hovvels – Labour Party
- Susan Husband – Reform UK
- Sean Ivey – North East Party
- Rathika Krishnarajasri – Conservative Party
- Liz Temple – Liberal Democrats
- Paul Trippett – Labour Party
Tudhoe
- Andy Anderson – Independent
- Neil Foster – Labour Party
- Ian Geldard – Labour Party
- Martin Jones – Liberal Democrats
- Peter Laws – Reform UK
- Nicola Lyons – Reform UK
- Billy McAloon – Independent
- Oliver Peeke – Conservative Party
- Beckie Ranyard – Liberal Democrats
- Michael Renton – Conservative Party
- Dave Whalley – Reform UK
Upper Teesdale
- Richard Bell – Conservative Party
- Ian Hirst – Reform UK
- Chris Kelsey – Labour Party
- Kathleen McGough – Green Party
- Florence Simpson – Liberal Democrats
Weardale
- Paul Beattie – Reform UK
- David Brown – Reform UK
- Olivia Dunn – Liberal Democrats
- Matthew Ferguson – Green Party
- Gemma Holmes-Wood – Labour Party
- Richard Lawrie – Conservative Party
- Sally-Beth Marshall – Labour Party
- Anita Savory – Independent
- John Shuttleworth – Independent
- Will Wearmouth – Conservative Party
West Auckland
- Alan Breeze – Independent
- Nick Brown – Reform UK
- Alison Fidgin – Liberal Democrats
- Stephen Gray – Reform UK
- Georgia Holmes – Conservative Party
- Alyson Hudson – Liberal Democrats
- George Smith – Labour Party
- Liz Tyrrell – Green Party
- Robert Yorke – Labour Party
- Lesley Zair – Independent
Willington and Hunwick
- Aaron Calder – Liberal Democrats
- Olym Gunn – Labour Party
- Cathy Hunt – Reform UK
- Emma Hunt – Reform UK
- Sam Mitchell-Worthington – Conservative Party
- Geoff Moore – Liberal Democrats
- David Saygi – Green Party
- Aida Smith – Conservative Party
- Angela Smith – Independent
- Trevor Tinsley – Labour Party
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