All 40 seats on North Shropshire District Council are up for re-election, although not all are being contested.

The council is currently Conservative controlled with 18 seats, Independent 14, Labour 4 , Non Affiliated 3 and Liberal Democrats 1.

KEY TO POLITICAL PARTIES
BNP – British National Party
C – Conservative
CPA – Christian People’s Alliance
CPB – Communist Party of Britain
G – The Green Party
HLRA – Hadley & Leegomery Residents Association
I – Independent
L – Labour
LD – Liberal Democrats
PC – Plaid Cymru
SL – Socialist Labour
UKIP – United Kingdom Independence Party
V – Veritas
WC – Welsh Conservatives
WCP – Welsh Christian Party “Proclaiming Christ’s Lordship”
WLD – Welsh Liberal Democrats
TAWPA – Telford & Wrekin People’s Association

NOMINATIONS

Baschurch (one seat) – Barbara Jane Craig (C).

Clive & Myddle (two seats) – Dewi Aneurin Davies (I); Michael Douglas Skinner (C); Brian Beckett Williams (C).

Cockshutt (one seat) – Peter John Griffiths (I); John Hodnett (C).

Dudleston Heath (one seat) – Ann Elizabeth Hartley (C).

Ellesmere & Welshampton (two seats) – Lynne Davies (C); Jack Frost (NA); Stanford G Hulme, (NA); Brian John Knight (I); Richard Elliott Lawson (I); William Glyn Lewis (I); Averil MacDonald (C);

Ian Charles Ward (I)

Hinstock (two seats) – Mick Gould (I); Fred Udale (C).

Hodnet (two seats) – Karen Dale Calder (C); Ian Geoffrey Etherington (C).

Hordley, Tetchill & Lyneal (one seat) – Steve Davenport (C).

Market Drayton East (two seats) – David James Minnery (C); Val Taylor (L).

Market Drayton North (three seats) – Roy Aldcroft (C); John Beckett (C); Gary Groves (L); Roger Alan Hughes (I); Colin William Phillips (I); Janet Beverley Smith (L).

Market Drayton South (two seats) – Rob Bentley (L); David Erwin (C); Jeff Hopkins (L).

Prees (two seats) – Tony Barnett (NA); Marilyn Ann Patrick (C); Jonathan Walmsley (C).

Shavington (one seat) – Roger Alan Hughes (I); Janet Ann Proudlove (NA); April Barbara Style (I).

Shawbury (two seats) – Norman Aldhous (I); Simon Paul Anderson Jones (C).

Sutton (one seat) – Arthur Keith Newby (C).

Wem East (two seats) – Pauline Anne Dee, (I); Chris Mellings (LIB).

Wem Rural (one seat) – Peter Broomhall (C).

Wem West (two seats) – Peggy Carson (I); John Hamilton Murray (C); Leslie Edwin Phillips (I); Paul Weaving (I).

Whitchurch North (two seats) – Jean Mainwaring (I); Ann Matthews (C); Marion Bertha Noel Winwood (C).

Whitchurch Rural (one seat) Michael Robert Barker (I); Gerald Lionel Dakin (C).

Whitchurch South (two seats) – Alan Frederick Chesters (C); Rob Hewson (I); Peggy Mullock (I); Andrew Hadden Richardson (C).

Whitchurch West (two seats) – Doris Mary Ankers (C); Paul Wynn (C).

Whixall (one seat) – Moya Kay Walker (C).

Woore (one seat) – Michael John Brassington (C); Frank Woodcock (NA).