HERE is the full list of candidates nominated for Caerphilly County Borough Council in the local government elections on Thursday, May 4.

Aber Valley

(Three seats)

Lyndon Binding – Plaid Cymru

Jo Rao – Labour

John Eryl Roberts – Plaid Cymru

Ryan Graham Smith – Conservatives

John Taylor – Plaid Cymru

David Zenati-Parsons – Labour

Aberbargoed

(Two seats)

Alan George Collis – Labour

Lowri Carys Edwards – Plaid Cymru

Ted Edwards – Plaid Cymru

Alan Gerald Higgs – Labour

Keith Mills – Ukip

Abercarn

(Two seats)

Margaret Elizabeth Denney – Lib Dems

Jill Elizabeth Jones – Plaid Cymru

Tud Jones – Plaid Cymru

Denver Winston Redman Preece – Labour

Andrew Whitcombe – Labour

Argoed

(One seat)

John Moore - Ukip

Roger John Moore – Plaid Cymru

Walter Henry Edgar Williams – Labour

Bargoed

(Three seats)

Carol Julia Andrews – Labour

Tudor Davies – Labour

Belinda Gingell – Independent

Gill Jones – Plaid Cymru

James Kerby – Independent

Andrew Thomas Nutt – Plaid Cymru

Dianne Price – Labour

Kevin Philip Viney – Plaid Cymru

Bedwas, Trethomas and Machen

(Four seats)

Liz Aldworth – Labour

John James Dew – Independent

June Gale – Labour

Peter Clive Gaskell – Green

Philip Goodger – Conservative

Derek Harvard – Labour

Daniel Llewellyn – Plaid Cymru

Gareth Llewellyn – Plaid Cymru

Lisa Phipps – Labour

Michael Roberts – Conservative

Paul Stringer – Plaid Cymru

Janet Walsh – Independent

Teresa Winiarski – Plaid Cymru

Blackwood

(Three seats)

Steven Anthony Blakeman – Plaid Cymru

Patricia Cook – Labour

Nigel Stuart Dix – Independent

Kevin Etheridge – Independent

Andrew David Farina-Childs – Independent

Janet Griffiths – Labour

Darren Jones – Plaid Cymru

Allan Rees – Independent

Matthew Sessions – Labour

Andrew Short – Plaid Cymru

Keith Smallman – Independent

Paul Taylor – Ukip

Cefn Forest

(Two seats)

Christopher Hawker – Labour

Louise Rachael Philips – Independent

Graham Derek Simmonds – Independent

Tom Williams – Labour

Crosskeys

(One seat)

Christopher Philip Norman Cook – Plaid Cymru

Julian Simmonds – Labour

Crumlin

(Two seats)

Mike Davies – Plaid Cymru

Philip Fowler – Independent

Andrew Lewis – Labour

Alwyn Lewis Lloyd – Plaid Cymru

Carl Jeffrey Thomas – Labour

Dominic Walker – Independent

Darren Valley

(One seat)

David Thomas Hardacre – Labour

Keiron David O’Hagen – Independent

Gilfach

(One seat)

Granville Hale – Conservative

Lindsey Harding – Labour

Ken Houston – Plaid Cymru

Hengoed

(Two seats)

Mark Anthony Boyland – Labour

Donna Cushing – Plaid Cymru

Teresa Elizabeth Parry – Plaid Cymru

Graham George Wills – Ukip

Llanbradach

(Two seats)

Rhydian Dafydd Birkenshaw – Labour

Robert William Gough – Plaid Cymru

Colin Peter Mann – Plaid Cymru

Bethan Louise Thomas – Labour

Maesycwmmer

(One seat)

Vincent Alex James – Labour

William Stuart Jones – Conservative

Catrin Sara Moss – Plaid Cymru

Morgan Jones

(Three seats)

Phil Bevan – Plaid Cymru

Roger Bidgood – Plaid Cymru

Shayne Cook – Labour

Shelly Hodder – Labour

Gerry Jones – Conservative

Peter Jones – Conservative

Wilfred Hugh Philips – Conservative

Mike Prew – Plaid Cymru

James Pritchard – Labour

Moriah

(Two seats)

John Bevan – Labour

Nathan Thomas Flanagan – Plaid Cymru

Dai Harse – Labour

Nelson

(Two seats)

Anne Blackman – Christian Peoples Alliance

Kay David – Lib Dems

Brenda Mair Miles – Labour

Sean Iestyn Morgan – Labour

Malcolm Tucker – Plaid Cymru

Marls Tucker – Plaid Cymru

New Tredegar

(Two seats)

Rachael Joanne Dixon – Plaid Cymru

Bethany Adele Edwards – Plaid Cymru

Mark Anthony Evans – Labour

Kev Rodgers – Independent

Eluned Stenner – Labour

Newbridge

(Three seats)

Kath Baker – Plaid Cymru

Adrian Alfred Hussey – Labour

Leeroy Jeremiah – Labour

Gary Johnston – Labour

Matthew Kidner – Lib Dems

Jago Lewis – Conservative

Rhys Mills – Plaid Cymru

Wayne Lewis Morrisey – Plaid Cymru

Stuart Roberston – Conservative

Heather Robertson – Conservative

Pengam

(Two seats)

Kevin Dawson – Labour

Chris Paul – Plaid Cymru

David Vincent Poole – Labour

Noel Geoffrey Turner – Plaid Cymru

Penmaen

(Two seats)

John Owen Evans – Plaid Cymru

Kevin Jones – Plaid Cymru

Richard Webb Jones – Conservative

Roy Saralis – Labour

Shawn Patricia Sims – Conservative

Ben Zaplatynski – Labour

Penyrheol

(Four seats)

Lawrence John Frederick Andrews – Ukip

Huw Rhodri Davies – Labour

Janice Anne Davies – Labour

Gregory Elliott – Conservative

Ian William Gorman – Ukip

Sandra Jones – Labour

Cameron Muir-Jones – Conservative

Steven John Roberts – Conservative

Margaret Eiddwen Sargent – Plaid Cymru

Jon Scriven – Plaid Cymru

Steven John Skivens – Plaid Cymru

Lindsay Geoffrey Whittle – Plaid Cymru

Milena Zenati-Parsons – Labour

Pontllanfraith

(Three seats)

Michael Adams – Labour

Jim Criddle – Plaid Cymru

Colin John Gordon – Labour

Zoe Alexandra Hammond – Plaid Cymru

Mike Jackson – Plaid Cymru

Gez Kirby – Labour

Wendy Philips – Conservative

Andrew Williamson – Conservative

Pontlottyn

(One seat)

Mervyn Dorian Diggle – Independent

Gaynor Denise Oliver – Labour

David Adam Rees – Plaid Cymru

Risca East

(Three seats)

Nigel George – Labour

Graham Jones – Conservative

James Jones – Conservative

Philippa Leonard – Labour

Gareth Macleur – Plaid Cymru

James Mallindine – Conservative

Alexander Owen – Plaid Cymru

Adrianna Krystina Passmore – Labour

Luke Smith – Plaid Cymru

Risca West

(Two seats)

Matthew Robert Farrell – Plaid Cymru

Brian Hancock – Plaid Cymru

Bob Owen – Independent

Anthony Sims – Conservative

Ross Anthony Whiting – Labour

Ceri Marina Wright – Labour

St Cattwg

(Three seats)

Jessica Alfonso Robledo – Plaid Cymru

Carmen Marie Bezzina – Labour

Wynne David – Labour

Ann Gair – Labour

Wyndham Matthews – Plaid Cymru

Richard Euan Osborne – Plaid Cymru

St James

(Three seats)

Paul Michael Bradbury – Plaid Cymru

Ian Chivers – Conservative

John Evans – Conservative

Christina Forehead – Labour

Elaine Forehead – Labour

Jayne Elizabeth Garland – Plaid Cymru

Sam Gould – Ukip

Barbara Avril Jones – Labour

John Anthony Leek – Plaid Cymru

Dennis Morgan – Conservative

David Owens – Ukip

Andrew Shakespeare – Ukip

St Martins

(Three seats)

Anne Olivia Broughton-Pettit – Labour

Judith Elizabeth Child – Conservative

Megan Hannah Churchland – Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition

Colin Elsbury – Plaid Cymru

Elizabeth Jane Evans – Conservative

James Emmanuel Fussell – Plaid Cymru

Tony Graham – Labour

Steve Kent – Plaid Cymru

Robert Stanley Lea – Conservative

Hazel Norris – Ukip

John Harry Pettit – Labour

Richard Williams – Ukip

Twyn Carno

(One seat)

Carl Jon Cuss – Labour

(Uncontested)

Ynysddu

(Two seats)

Lyn Ackerman – Plaid Cymru

Terry Birkett – Plaid Cymru

Philippa Marsen – Labour

John Philip Ridgewell – Labour

Ystrad Mynach

(Two seats)

Alan Patrick Angel – Plaid Cymru

Alan Dowler – Labour

Martyn Paul James – Plaid Cymru

Kerry Jones – Labour