The runners and riders for June 4 Central Bedfordshire Council elections have been announced and all potential councillors are being offered the opportunity to sell themsleves to voters on the internet.
There are a total of 66 available seats in the Central Bedfordshire elections with 34 of them being in the former Mid Beds area.
When the nomination deadline passed last week 115 people had put themselves forward for election.
Forty two of them are current councillors so there will certainly be some disappointment when the ballots are counted.
The two toughest wards appear to be Biggleswade and Stotfold and Arlesey which both have 13 candidates, including five current councillors in each, vying for four available seats.
The Biggleswade Advertiser/Bedfordshire on Sunday is inviting all nominees for the elections to visit our office in Bedford and have a one minute video made which will then be loaded for viewing
HERE.
Nominees can tell voters all about themselves and what they stand for, but they only have 60 seconds to do so.
If you would like to take advantage of this offer then call the newsdesk on 01234 300888 to arrange an appointment.
The candidates are:
Ampthill - two seats
John Bingham - Ind
Mark Richard Cant - Lab
Michael John Cottier - Lib Dem
Paul Alan Duckett - Con
Carol Margaret Elaine Gibson - Con
Chris Hayes - Ind
David Edwin Hogan - Lab
Ghislain Pascal - Ind
Mark Andrew Smith - Ind
Gary Summerfield - Lib Dem
Biggleswade - four seats
Kevin Austin - BNP
Bernard Victor Briers - Lab
Gregory Burke - Lib Dem
Neil Cliff - Lib Dem
Dante Virgil Conning - Lib Dem
Allister James Dennis - Lab
Sheila Margaret Grayston - Lab
Maurice Richard Jones - Con
David John Lawrence - Con
Jane Gay Lawrence - Con
Chris Leslie - Lib Dem
Rex Skinner - Lab
Peter Frank Vickers - Con
Cranfield - two seats
Alan Richard Bastable - Con
Sheila Booth - Lib Dem
Kenneth Charles Matthews - Con
Alan Joseph Morris - Lab
Laurence Alexander Pollock - Lab
Malcolm Sinclair - Lib Dem
Flitwick East - two seats
Andy Ausden - Ind
Gareth Ellis - Green Party
Chris Fryer - Green Party
Sheila Gardner - Lab
Stephen John Hunt - Lab
James Gerard Jamieson - Con
Stephen Mitchell - Lib Dem
Les Thompson - Lib Dem
Andrew Michael Turner - Con
Flitwick West - two seats
Dennis John Gale - Con
Peter Joyce - Lab
Richard Kennedy - Lib Dem
Stephen Frederick Male - Con
Iain Stuart Matuaru - Lab
Louise Watton - Lib Dem
Langford and Henlow
- two seats
Trevor Barnes - Lib Dem
Ann Brown - Lab
Jon Clarke - Con
David Charles Devereux - Lab
Tony Rogers - Con
Tim Troon - Lib Dem
Marston - two seats
Roy Arden - Lab
Roger Alistair Baker - Con
Ian Jonathan Booth - Lib Dem
Sean Patrick Walter Carolan - Lab
Iain Clapham - Ind
Michael James Gibson - Con
Jo Sinclair - Lib Dem
Maulden and Houghton Conquest
two seats
Saqhib Ijthehad - Green Party
Roger Baines - Lib Dem
Angela Barker - Con
George Henry Legate - Lab
Howard James Lockey - Con
Peter Reginald Wicks - Lab
Tracy Wilbur - Lib Dem
Northill and Blunham
two seats
James Blackburn - Lib Dem
Hilary Janet Broderick - Lab
Gail David - Lib Dem
Peter Charles Doland - Lab
Caroline Maudlin - Con
Tricia Turner - Con
Potton - two seats
Richard Gilbert Baker - Ind
Rose Forbes - Lab
Doreen Beatrice Gurney - Con
Dennis James - Lab
Patrick Jones - Lib Dem
Anita Lewis - Con
Sandy - two seats
Nigel Aldis - Lib Dem
Peter Anthony Blaine - Lib Dem
David Iain Hadley - Lab
Kate Layden - Green Party
Ken Lynch - Green Party
Cheryl Ann McDonald - Lab
Dawn Michele McNeil - Con
Steven Watkiss - Con
Shefford - two seats
Lewis Birt - Con
Tony Brown - Con
Carolyn Devereux - Lab
John Goode - Lib Dem
Paul Francis John Mackin - Lib Dem
Nigel Ian Rushby - Lab
Silsoe and Shillington - two seats
Paul Bouch - Lab
Rita Jane Drinkwater - Con
Alison Mary Wainman Graham - Lib Dem
Myles Collett Greenhalgh - Lib Dem
Kathy Keen - Con
Anthony Kent - Lab
Stotfold and Arlesey - four seats
Alan Reginald Cooper - Lib Dem
Ian Dalgarno - Con
Hugh Harper - Ind
Douglas Alexander Landman - Lab
Sandra May Lunn - Lab
Pam Manfield - Lib Dem
John Alfred George Saunders - Con
Mike Smith - Lab
Larry Stoter - Lib Dem
John Street - Con
Christina Turner - Con
Lorraine Jean Warwick - Lab
Vic Williams - Ind
Woburn and Harlington - two seats
Fiona Chapman - Con
Rachel Joy Elizabeth Garnham - Lab
Brian James Golby - Lib Dem
Robert John Hallam - Lib Dem
Susan Marie Morris - Lab
Budge Wells - Con