Fourteen seats on North Hertfordshire District Council will be contested during elections held this Thursday, May 22.
A list of candidates for all the wards is featured below.
The Comet will be tweeting on social networking site Twitter using #Cometelections live from the election count held in Letchworth GC on Friday, as well as posting results as they come in via our website.
BALDOCK TOWN
? Rachel Burgin (Lab)
? Marilyn Kirkland (Lib Dem)
? Jim McNally (Con)
? Peter Robbins (UKIP)
? Arwen Tapping (Green)
CODICOTE
? Nick Brooke (UKIP)
? Ann De Bock (Green)
? Jane Gray (Con)
? Bhavna Joshi (Lab)
HITCHIN BEARTON
? Lisa Courts (Lib Dem)
? Peter Croft (UKIP)
? Nicola Harris (Con)
? Sarah Pond (Green)
? Adrian Smith (Lab)
HITCHIN HIGHBURY
? Min Birdsey (Lab)
? Jim Groves (UKIP)
? Simon Harwood (Con)
? Michael Lott (Lib Dem)
? Heidi Mollart-Griffin (Green)
HITCHIN OUGHTON
? Steven Bartlett (UKIP)
? George Howe (Green)
? Mara Maceseoinin (Con)
? Frank Radcliffe (Lab)
? John White (Lib Dem)
HITCHIN PRIORY
? Stuart Alder (Lib Dem)
? Allison Ashley (Con)
? Gillian Langley (Green)
? June Le Sueur (Lab)
? Adrianne Smyth (UKIP)
HITCHIN WALSWORTH
? Andrew Ircha (Lib Dem)
? Alan Millard (Con)
? Gavin Nicholson (Green)
? Raymond Parsons (UKIP)
? Nafisa Sayany (Lab)
KIMPTON
? Sadie Billing (Lab)
? John Bishop (Con)
? Orla Nicholls (Green)
KNEBWORTH
? Harold Bland (Green)
? Steve Hemingway (Con)
? Gary Hills (Lab)
? James Orme-Kirby (UKIP)
LETCHWORTH EAST
? John Barry (UKIP)
? Eric Blakeley (Green)
? Lorna Kercher (Lab)
? Michael Paterson (Con)
LETCHWORTH GRANGE
? Rosemary Bland (Green)
? Sandra Lunn (Lab)
? Paul Marment (Con)
? Martin Penny (Lib Dem)
? Andrew Scuoler (UKIP)
LETCHWORTH SOUTH EAST
? John Booth (Con)
? Dean Cartwright (Green)
? Rebecca Greener (Lib Dem)
? Sidney Start (UKIP)
? Martin Stears-Handscomb (Lab)
LETCHWORTH SOUTH WEST
? Jean Andrews (Lab)
? Gemma Hughes (UKIP)
? Mario May (Green)
? Mike Rice (Con)
? John Winder (Lib Dem)
LETCHWORTH WILBURY
? Andy Frankland (Con)
? Gary Grindal (Lab)
? Maryla Hart (Green)
? Michael Rodgers (UKIP)
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