Croydon Council local elections 2026 - who can you vote for?

Who can you vote for in the Croydon local elections? <i>(Image: PA)</i>
Who can you vote for in the Croydon local elections? (Image: PA)
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Voters in Croydon will take to the ballot boxes next month to help shape the future of their borough.

Residents will elect 70 councillors across 28 wards on May 7, alongside voting for a directly elected Mayor of Croydon, with hundreds of candidates confirmed as nominated.

Most wards are represented by three councillors, meaning voters can put an X in up to three boxes on the council ballot paper.

Some wards – including Addiscombe East, Kenley, New Addington North, New Addington South, Norbury & Pollards Hill, Norbury Park, Old Coulsdon, Purley Oaks & Riddlesdown, Selhurst, Selsdon & Addington Village, Selsdon Vale & Forestdale, Shirley South – are represented by two councillors.

Park Hill & Whitgift is represented by one councillor.

Voters will also receive a second ballot paper to choose the Mayor of Croydon, elected borough-wide.

Below is a breakdown of all the nominated candidates by ward.

Addiscombe East

Chris Adams – Liberal Democrats

Jeet Bains – Conservative

Massimo Berta – Green Party

Vanessa Calou – Reform UK

Lee Flanagan – Liberal Democrats

Chris Galpin – Labour & Co-operative

Elaine Garrod – Green Party

Maddie Henson – Labour & Co-operative

Richard Hoque – Conservative

Robert Jardine – Reform UK

Addiscombe West

Susan Ashby-Adams – Liberal Democrats

Nick Beall – Labour & Co-operative

Brad Michael Cook – Conservative

Antony Robert Coward – Green Party

Adrian Robert Douglas – Green Party

Sean Fitzsimons – Labour & Co-operative

Patricia Hay-Justice – Labour & Co-operative

Saba Shafique Khan – Green Party

Sasa Konecni – Liberal Democrats

Vidhi Mohan – Conservative

Ranjiv Nagi – Conservative

Paul Reeder – Reform UK

Athena Alexandra Chidera Reid – TUSC

Richard Waddingham – Reform UK

Leon Wright – Reform UK

Szymon Zaborski – Liberal Democrats

Bensham Manor

Syed Saqib Alam Abidi – Workers Party

Ashley Burridge – Liberal Democrats

Caraden Davis – Green Party

Graeme Robert Fillmore – Conservative

Ben Flook – Reform UK

Gay Holder – Reform UK

Gisela James – Conservative

Simon Christopher Richard Jones – Green Party

Humayun Kabir – Labour & Co-operative

Mohana Mandharan – Labour & Co-operative

Graham John Mitchell – Independent

Akintunde Ogunlolu – Reform UK

Jon Sanders – Conservative

Ellie Sandover – Labour & Co-operative

Gareth Main – Green Party

Broad Green

Aba Amoah – Labour & Co-operative

Christine Bigrigg – Reform UK

Tom Bowell – Labour & Co-operative

Ian Bridgeman – Green Party

Mary Croos – Conservative

Titilope Fadipe – Conservative

Roger Flook – Reform UK

Khamisi Greene – TUSC

Samuel John – Green Party

Alfie Kingett – Conservative

Tariq Salim – Green Party

Manju Shahul-Hameed – Labour & Co-operative

Tiju Thomas – Reform UK

Adrian Waters – Liberal Democrats

Coulsdon Town

Robert James Barber – Labour

Coral Carroll – Labour

Iain Joseph Gillespie – Green Party

Jay Ginn – Green Party

Adrian Glendinning – Liberal Democrats

Anna Hills – Reform UK

Richard Howard – Liberal Democrats

Steven Alexander Jack – Labour

Richard Mallett – Reform UK

Ian James Parker – Conservative

Nikhil Sherine Thampi – Conservative

Luke Daniel Shortland – Conservative

Daljeet Singh – Green Party

Jeff Wood – Reform UK

Jason Reynolds – Liberal Democrats

Crystal Palace & Upper Norwood

Mark Adderley – Green Party

Claire Elizabeth Bonham – Liberal Democrats

Ken Coales – Reform UK

Nigel Albert Dingley – Liberal Democrats

Fereshteh Emami – Conservative

Sangeeta Gobidaas – Labour & Co-operative

Will Linsdell – Labour & Co-operative

Phillip Martins Marques – Conservative

Sue Millward – Reform UK

Yusuf Ali Osman – Liberal Democrats

Liam Anthony Shipton – Green Party

Magnus Terek Sorensen – Labour & Co-operative

Natalie Louise Vesty – Green Party

Desmond John Wright – Conservative

Sajan Xavier – Reform UK

Fairfield

Paul Wyn Ednyfed Ainscough – Green Party

Hina Rajam Amin – Conservative

Davina Tarin Brown – Labour & Co-operative

Chris Clark – Labour & Co-operative

Cliff Colvin – Labour & Co-operative

Michael David Hunter – Liberal Democrats

Steven Carl Jacobs – Conservative

Peter James Jarvis – Conservative

Ed Marin – Reform UK

Sujan Mukhiya – Reform UK

Ria Patel – Green Party

Esther Sutton – Green Party

Jill Thomas – Reform UK

Kenley

Andrew Bennett – Liberal Democrats

David Booth – Reform UK

Kacper Josef Borkowski – Labour

Kim Chadwick – Reform UK

Joanna Drake – Liberal Democrats

Gayle Gander – Conservative

Ola Kolade – Conservative

Rosie Malarkey – Labour

Catherine Charlotte Morris – Green Party

Sabin Kaussar Qureshi – Green Party

New Addington North

Kola Agboola – Labour & Co-operative

Afuah Ahorgah-Dorfia – Labour & Co-operative

Emmanuel Amuzu – Taking The Initiative Party

Adele Benson – Conservative

Livinus Bondzie – Conservative

Michael Castle – Independent

Bernice Clare Golberg – Green Party

Nik Stewert – Reform UK

Kelsey Trevett – Green Party

Neil Watson – Reform UK

Corey Williams – Taking The Initiative Party

New Addington South

Lara Leigh Fish – Conservative

Scott Holman – Reform UK

Adam Kellett – Reform UK

Alexandra Leech-Gribben – Green Party

Laila Mohamed – Labour & Co-operative

Tony Pearson – Conservative

Ralph Pemberton – Taking The Initiative Party

Faustina Sebbie Amoah – Taking The Initiative Party

Samuel Stevens – Green Party

Edwyn Emmanuel Wood – Labour & Co-operative

Norbury & Pollards Hill

Leila Ben-Hassel – Labour

Karim Benze – Green Party

Shakera Bowen – Conservative

Tirena Gunter – Conservative

Pabiltan Parameswaran – Reform UK

Steven James Penketh – Liberal Democrats

Ferha Afshan Syed – Green Party

John Patrick Wentworth – Labour

Bryan Whicher – Reform UK

Norbury Park

Ashtaq Arain – Green Party

Don Charles-Lambert – Conservative

Maria Evans – Reform UK

Mark Leggett – Green Party

Bryan Mahon Ball – Liberal Democrats

Daniel O'Donovan – Liberal Democrats

Hony Premlal – Conservative

Julie Setchfield – Labour & Co-operative

Appu Dhamodaran Srinivasan – Labour & Co-operative

Michael Swadling – Reform UK

Old Coulsdon

Margaret Bird – Conservative

Stephen Black – Labour

Nick Collins – Reform UK

Timothy Michael Coombe – Green Party

Gill Hickson – Liberal Democrats

John Jefkins – Liberal Democrats

Angus MacDonald – Reform UK

Raf Makda – Conservative

Dora Makrogianni – Labour

Nicholas Connor Spicer – Green Party

Park Hill & Whitgift

James Cork – Green Party

Karthika Dhamodaran – Labour

Andrew Robert Price – Conservative

Ravi Sandrasegara – Reform UK

Andrew John Thynne – Liberal Democrats

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