WITH polling stations in Thurrock due to open at 7am on Thursday, 6 May, Thurrock Nub News is reminding residents of the list of candidates in wards across the borough.

Thurrock Council has assured voters that polling stations will be safe places to visit.

The list of candidates for the 17 wards where elections take place is below.

Aveley & Uplands

Srikanth Goud Panjala (Labour)

Maureen Pearce (Conservative)

Belhus

Graham Lloyd Hamilton (Thurrock Independents)

Amin Hoque (Labour)

Georgette Polley (Conservative)

Chadwell St Mary

Adam Carter (Conservative)

Russell Peter Cherry (Thurrock Independents)

Carl Anthony Graham Morris (Labour)

Chafford & North Stifford

James Thandi (Conservative)

Mofeda Parvin Tuhin (Labour)

Corringham & Fobbing

John Cecil (Labour)

Graham Snell (Conservative)

East Tilbury

Jacqueline Dobson (Labour)

Susan Sammons (Conservative)

Neil Speight (Independent)

Grays Riverside

Tobi Adewa-Faboro (Conservative)

Daniel David Fallows (The Green Party)

Tony Fish (Labour)

Grays Thurrock

Sophie Corcoran (Conservative)

John George Kent (Labour)

Little Thurrock Blackshots

Joycelyn Redsell (Conservative)

Magun Singh (The Green Party)

Oliver Mark Smith (Thurrock Independents)

Marc John Francis Sugrue (Labour)

Ockendon

Ruth Elizabeth Clapham (Labour)

Maurice Kelley (Thurrock Independents)

Luke Spillman (Conservative)

Orsett

Stephen John Andrews (Independent)

Sue Little (Conservative)

Gary Watson (Labour)

South Chafford

Clifford John Holloway (Labour)

Augustine Ononaji (Conservative)

Stanford East & Corringham Town

Jack Duffin (Conservative)

Valarie Morris-Cook (Labour)

Gbenga Olajugbagbe (Thurock Independents)

Stanford-le-Hope West

Dean Peter Braun (Reform UK)

Ross James Byrne (Thurrock Independents)

Terry Piccolo (Conservative)

Leslie James Strange (Labour)

The Homesteads

Gary A Collins (Conservative)

John Robert Fox (Thurrock Independents)

Mark Wayne Hurrell (Labour)

Bill Poskitt (Reform UK)

Tilbury St Chads

John Arthur Allen (Independent)

Joseph Kaley (Conservative)

Kairen Raper (Labour)

West Thurrock & South Stifford

Brian Seeger (Conservative)

Lee Watson (Labour)

There are no elections in Little Thurrock Rectory, Stifford Clays and Tilbury Riverside and Thurrock Park.

Voting will also take place for the role of Essex Police, Crime and Fire Commissioner.

There are four candidates.

They are:

Roger Hirst (Conservative)

Robin Charles William Tilbrook (English Democrats )

Chris Vince (Labour)

Jon Whitehouse (Liberal Democrat)