Lists of the candidates vying to be elected in the local elections in Banstead and Leatherhead were published yesterday as political campaigning gets underway.

A third of councillors are up for election at Mole Valley Council, where no party has overall control, and at the Conservative-led Reigate and Banstead Council.

Mole Valley Council has 15 Liberal Democrats, 19 Conservatives, six Independents and one vacancy, while the executive is a coalition of Conservative and Independent councillors.

Over in Reigate and Banstead, there are 36 Conservative councillors, seven Residents’ Association councillors, three Green party councillors, two Liberal Democrat councillors, one Independent councillor, one UKIP councillor and one vacancy.

The local elections are taking place on Thursday, May 7, which is the same day as the general election.

The deadline to register to vote is Monday, April 20. Register online at www.gov.uk/register-to-vote.

Alternatively email electoral.registration@molevalley.gov.uk in Mole Valley or elreg@reigate-banstead.gov.uk in Reigate and Banstead.

Banstead Village

Conservatives - Lynne Hack - current councillor

Labour - Ann-Marie Bradford

Liberal Democrats - James Fowler

UKIP - Chris Byrne

Kingswood with Burgh Heath

Conservatives - Ros Mill - current councillor

Green Party - Derek Smith UKIP

Bob Cambridge - Nork Residents' Association

Michael Selby - current councillor

Conservatives - Pauline Tweedale

Preston

Gemma Harper-Adamson - current councillor

Conservatives - Jamie Paul

Labour - Helen Young

Tattenhams

Residents' Association - Nick Harrison - current councillor

Conservatives - Jane Illingworth

Green Party - Roger Ponsford

Tadworth and Walton

Conservatives - James Clarke

Liberal Democrats - Sonja Begley-Moore

Labour - David Burnley

Green Party - Alistair Morten

UKIP - Valerie Moore

Ashtead Village

Liberal Democrats - Matthew Berry

Ashtead Independents - David Hawksworth

Conservatives - Chris Hunt - current councillor

Labour - Clive Scott

Green Party - Tony Cooper

Box Hill & Headley

Liberal Democrats - David Preedy - current councillor

Green Party - Robert Sedgwick

Conservatives - Malcolm Ladell

UKIP - Bob Cane

Leatherhead North

UKIP - Simon Chambers

Green Party - Victoria Elcoate

Liberal Democrats Bridget Lewis-Carr - current councillor

Conservatives - Santiago Mondejar Flores

Labour - Mike Ward