Oxford City Council election – List of candidates revealed

Voters across Oxford will go to the polls on Thursday, May 7, to elect councillors to represent wards covering the city.

Oxford City Council has a portion of seats contested in most years, with successful candidates serving four‑year terms.

With 48 councillors in total and two in each of 24 wards, half the seats, equating to one councillor per ward, are elected every two years.

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Poll cards are being issued to registered voters, confirming their polling station and reminding them of the date of the election.

On election day, polling stations will be open from 7am until 10pm, with counting expected to take place overnight or the following day.

The results will determine the political makeup of Oxford City Council for the coming two years.

Oxford Town Hall (Image: Ed Nix)

The full list of candidates is below.

Barton and Sandhills:

• Mike Rowley – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Tariq Saeed – Green Party
• Paul Rogers – Liberal Democrat
• Vernon Porter – The Conservative Party Candidate
• Felix Peter Bloomfield – Reform UK
• Boris Fedorov – Workers Party
• Chaka Artwell – Independent

Blackbird Leys:

• Lubna Arshad – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Indigo Haynes – Green Party
• Alexandrine Kantor – Liberal Democrat
• James Morbin – Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
• Kornel Schesztak – Reform UK
• Fay Lana Sims – The Conservative Party Candidate

Carfax and Jericho:

• Alex Hollingsworth – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Sushila Devi Dhall – Green Party
• John Orrell Howson – Liberal Democrats
• Harriet Georgia Sophie Dolby – The Conservative Party Candidate
• Vittorio Peter Cuneo-Flood – Reform UK

Churchill:

• Susan Woolford Brown – Labour Party
• Ines Carmen Wilhelm – Green Party
• Peter Charles Coggins – Liberal Democrat
• Tim Patmore – The Conservative Party Candidate
• Michael Sakkalli – Reform UK

Cowley:

• Michael William Boyd – Labour Party
• Edward Mundy – Green Party
• George Busby – Liberal Democrat
• Andrea Louise Stephenson – The Conservative Party Candidate
• Ian Szwajca – Reform UK
• Ajaz Ur Rehman – Independent

Cutteslowe and Sunnymead:

• Nancy Lynn Cartwright – Labour Party
• Andrea Schiavi – Green Party
• Laurence George Fouweather – Liberal Democrats
• David John Cunningham – The Conservative Party Candidate
• Michael William Andrews – Reform UK

Donnington:

• Ralph Amory Noble – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Rosie Rawle – Green Party
• Graham Roderick Jones – Liberal Democrat
• Simon James Bazley – The Conservative Party Candidate
• Anna Marie Avila Taylor – Reform UK
• Saqib Faradoon – Independent

Headington:

• Emily Lygo – Labour Party
• Neil Doig – Green Party
• Christopher Stephen Frederick Smowton – Liberal Democrat
• James Peter Jackson – The Conservative Party Candidate
• Sandhya Sunkara – Reform UK

Headington Hill and Northway:

• James Taylor – Labour Party
• Sam Alston – Green Party
• Eleonore Rebekka Vogel – Liberal Democrat
• George Edward Silvanus Robinson – The Conservative Party Candidate
• Tenson Jacob – Reform UK
• Agnieszka Kowalska – Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
• Nasreen Majeed – Independent Oxford Alliance

Hinksey Park:

• Siobhan Ann Lancaster – Labour Party
• Hannah Scott – Green Party
• Rick Tanner – Liberal Democrat
• Amy Olivia Campbell – The Conservative Party Candidate
• Geoffrey Brian Ager – Reform UK

Holywell:

• Awab Ramadan Yahia Kazuz – Labour Party
• Alfie Davis – Green Party
• Ian Corthan Bearder – Liberal Democrats
• Harry Richardson – The Conservative Party Candidate

Littlemore:

• Tiago Corais – Labour Party
• Tamsin Sky Tristram Blaxter – Green Party
• Liz Wood – Liberal Democrat
• Daniel Stafford – The Conservative Party Candidate
• James Charles Baker – Reform UK
• David Stares – (no description listed)

Lye Valley:

• Stephen Douglas Harwood – Labour Party
• James Richard Harry Thorniley – Green Party
• Maria Bourbon – Liberal Democrat
• Gary William Dixon – The Conservative Party Candidate
• Jakub Zagdanski – Reform UK

Marston:

• Charlotte Louise Vinnicombe – Labour Party
• Kate Josephine Robinson – Green Party
• Andy McKay – Liberal Democrat
• Duncan Valentine Hatfield – The Conservative Party Candidate
• Richard Lewin – Reform UK
• Emily Frances Scaysbrook – Independent Oxford Alliance

Northfield Brook:

• Trish Elphinstone – Labour and Co-operative Party
• David Newman – Green Party
• Rosemary Anne Beatrice Morlin – Liberal Democrat
• Paul John Sims – The Conservative Party Candidate
• Dianne Copestake – Reform UK

Osney and St Thomas:

• David Calonge – Labour Party
• Lois Knight Muddiman – Green Party
• Harry Roy Morgan – Liberal Democrats
• Louis Watteau Williams – The Conservative Party Candidate
• Rose-Marie Wheeler – Reform UK

Quarry and Risinghurst:

• Chewe Edgar Munkonge – Labour Party
• Stephen Robert Hurt – Green Party
• Kai Ruediger Zolleis – Liberal Democrat
• Edmund Charles Annandale Johnstone – The Conservative Party Candidate
• Cristina Parau – Reform UK
• Alison Kahn – Independent Oxford Alliance

Rose Hill and Iffley:

• Edward Owen Turner – Labour Party
• Luke Barbanneau – Green Party
• Geraldine Anne Coggins – Liberal Democrat
• Suresh Lal – The Conservative Party Candidate
• Prudence Mary Prior Dailey – Reform UK
• Zack Iqbal – Independent Oxford Alliance

St Clement’s:

• Thomas Ayudthaya Boyd – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Ahalya Bala – Green Party
• Pippa Hitchcock – Liberal Democrat
• Vinay Raniga – The Conservative Party Candidate
• Martin Young – Reform UK

St Mary’s:

• Toby Stephen William James – Labour Party
• Emily Jane Elisabeth Kerr – Green Party
• Richard Whelan – Liberal Democrat
• Gloria Croxall – The Conservative Party Candidate
• Paula Jane Macfarlane – Reform UK

Summertown:

• Freda Janet Wolfenden – Labour Party
• James Hewett – Green Party
• Katherine Sarah Miles – Liberal Democrats
• Christopher David Edward Fox – The Conservative Party Candidate
• Fee Yin – Reform UK

Temple Cowley:

• Joseph Robert McManners – Labour Party
• Heather Laura Stallard – Green Party
• Tony Brett – Liberal Democrat
• Patricia Gwendoline Mary Jones – The Conservative Party Candidate
• Michael Sargent – Reform UK
• Saj Malik – Independent

Walton Manor:

• Louise Upton – Labour Party
• Zelalemawee Asheber – Green Party
• Joanne Louise Bowlt – Liberal Democrats
• Penelope Anne Lenon – The Conservative Party Candidate
• David Charles Lincoln – Reform UK

Wolvercote:

• Bev Humberstone – Labour Party
• Cristina Palamini – Green Party
• Elizabeth Asabea Abena Turkson Wood – Liberal Democrats
• Paul Dean Morris – The Conservative Party Candidate
• Stuart David Jolley – Reform UK
• Richard Peter Garbutt – Independent Oxford Alliance