Kingston: Local elections 2026 candidates revealed
By Charlotte Lillywhite - Local Democracy Reporter 15th Apr 2026
People across the capital and the rest of the country will head to the polls on 7 May to vote in the local elections. Voters will choose who they want to represent them for the next four years in their area, with all 32 London boroughs up for election.
All 48 seats on Kingston Council will be up for grabs across the 19 wards in the borough. The Lib Dems have run the council for two terms since taking over from the Conservatives in 2018.
The Lib Dems and Conservatives are each standing 48 candidates in the election, while Labour is standing 47 candidates and The Green Party and Reform UK are each standing 42 candidates. Kingston Independent Residents Group (KIRG) has put forward 36 candidates, while three candidates from The Official Monster Raving Loony Party and two Independent councillors are also standing.
Below is a list of all of the candidates battling for a seat in Kingston on 7 May, broken down by ward.
Alexandra
- Jill Margaret Anderson – Reform UK
- Caroline Ann Buchan – Reform UK
- Anna Katharine Burlingsby – Green Party
- Marian Margaret Freedman – Labour
- Simon Illsley – Conservatives
- Arjun Johal – Conservatives
- Des Kay – Green Party
- Amir Ali Khan – Lib Dems
- Alexander James Lock – Labour
- Aaron Mafi – KIRG
- Ian Manders – Lib Dems
- Gavin Pushparajan – KIRG
Berrylands
- Anthony Ayoola – Reform UK
- Garfield Anthony Bateman – Reform UK
- Paul Bedforth – Conservatives
- Heather Estelle Buchanan – Labour
- Lawrence Roy Green – Labour
- Maya Joyce Kay – Green Party
- Steve Kent – Conservatives
- Rizwana Suhail Malik – Lib Dems
- Anita Margaret Schaper – Lib Dems
- Philip Smith – Green Party
Canbury Gardens
- Ali Abdulla – KIRG
- Mohammad Beheshti – Conservatives
- Maria Theresa Blake – Reform UK
- Nicolai Due-Gundersen – Lib Dems
- Kelly Jane Galvin – Labour
- Peter Christopher Higgins – Lib Dems
- Anthony Larkin – Reform UK
- Mihaela McKendrick – KIRG
- Christopher Robert Priest – Labour
- Anand Rajpurohit – Conservatives
- Linda Jane Sawyer – Green Party
- Ian Bryn Worrall – Green Party
Chessington South and Malden Rushett
- Simon Bain – Reform UK
- Irena Boylett – Conservatives
- A Gent Chinners – Monster Raving Loony Party
- Captain Coiley – Monster Raving Loony Party
- James John Eakin – Conservatives
- Kevin Eggleton – Reform UK
- Andreas Kirsch – Lib Dems
- Griseldis Kirsch – Lib Dems
- Pawel Marian Lachowski – Reform UK
- Sharukh Mirza – Lib Dems
- Alfred Pirotta – Labour
- Laurie South – Labour
- Sue Towner – Conservatives
- Fe Wood – Labour
Coombe Hill
- Zain Ausaf Abbas – Lib Dems
- Tushar Aneja – Lib Dems
- Rowena Bass – Conservatives
- Jeanine Bateman – Reform UK
- Jamal Chohan – KIRG
- Ian George – Conservatives
- Patrick Lewis Goodacre – Green Party
- Anthony Michael Murray – Labour
- Zebunisa Rao – KIRG
- Sally Richardson – Labour
- Shaun Tocher – Reform UK
- Ezra Tunley – Green Party
Coombe Vale
- Brian Maxwell Austen – Lib Dems
- Kim Natasha Bailey – Lib Dems
- Chloe Vittoria Bell – Green Party
- Phil Doyle – KIRG
- Nick Draper – Labour
- David James Giles – KIRG
- Pallavi Konwar – Conservatives
- Kamala Kugan – Independent
- Marcel Lee – Conservatives
- Ian Alexander Parker – Labour
- Sandy Piercey – Reform UK
- Suniya Qureshi – KIRG
- Cathy Roberts – Conservatives
- Andrew Sillett – Lib Dems
- Gareth Brian Thomas – Green Party
- Peter Anthony Whitworth – Green Party
Green Lane and St James
- Dunia Al-Baghdadi – Independent
- Mike Chattey – Conservatives
- Pat Dobson – Labour
- Simon Patrick Foylan – Lib Dems
- James Giles – KIRG
- Lucy Grimstone – Reform UK
- Rory Hall – Lib Dems
- Gregory Jarrett – Reform UK
- Gerry Jones – Labour
- Rosemary Anne Salusbury – Conservatives
- Yvonne Tracey – KIRG
Hook and Chessington North
- Sue Ansari – Lib Dems
- Parsa Bahadori – Green Party
- Joanne Emma Barker – Lib Dems
- Angus Timothy Cameron – Reform UK
- Noëlle Carteret – Conservatives
- Stephen John Cherry – Reform UK
- David Kenneth John Cooper – Labour
- Lorraine Denishea Helen Dunstone – Lib Dems
- Liam Hebborn – KIRG
- Lucy Elizabeth Hill – Green Party
- David Phillips – Conservatives
- Liam Angus Secrett – Monster Raving Loony Party
- Kye Alan Slawson-Powell – Conservatives
- Christine Wynne Thompson – Labour
- Rosemary Vase – Labour
- David John Webb – Green Party
King George's and Sunray
- Nausheen Arnold – Conservatives
- Mark Rahim Beynon – Lib Dems
- Gia Borg-Darcy – Conservatives
- Bob Freedman – Labour
- Helen Rachel Grocott – Lib Dems
- Pauline Howard – Green Party
- Danyaal Khwaja – KIRG
- Julian McCarthy – KIRG
- Andrew David Prosser – Labour
- Kate Worley – Green Party
Kingston Gate
- Matt Browne – Green Party
- Noor Jamal Chohan – KIRG
- Robert Edwards – Reform UK
- Stephen Nicholas Evans – Lib Dems
- Kerry Giles – KIRG
- Tam Holmes – Labour
- Alexander Horsfall – Reform UK
- Frank Kitson – Labour
- Mark Peter Manners – Lib Dems
- Graham Charles Matthews – Reform UK
- Rahul Naithani – Conservatives
- Nicholas James Oatridge – Labour
- Donald Reginald Porter – Conservatives
- Sonu Ali Sayeed – KIRG
- Leela Sita Seaton – Conservatives
- Sarah Wait-Sillett – Lib Dems
- Claire Elizabeth Walter – Green Party
- Paul Michael Wright – Green Party
Kingston Town
- Gillian Elizabeth Aston – Conservatives
- Terry Bowers – Conservatives
- Rubina Cassell – KIRG
- Kezia Elizabeth Coleman – Labour
- Peter Haydn Czaja – Green Party
- James Benjamin Dean – Green Party
- John Joseph Ennett – Reform UK
- Sabah Hamed – Lib Dems
- Roger Mark Hayes – Lib Dems
- Keegan Philip Ronnie Hillier – Labour
- Tony James – Reform UK
- Raffaele Litto – Green Party
- Marie McGuire – Conservatives
- Nicola Inez Nardelli – Lib Dems
- Osvaldina Prezilius – Reform UK
- Jabeen Shah – KIRG
- Hayley Smithers – KIRG
- James Stanton – Labour
Motspur Park and Old Malden East
- Alastair Breen – Labour
- Sean Paul Casey – Labour
- Diane Ferguson-Smith – Reform UK
- Callum Sol Morrissey – Lib Dems
- Bea Osbourne – Green Party
- Terry Paton – Conservatives
- Rob Smith – Conservatives
- Wimal Wimalathasan – Lib Dems
- Riona Mary Seana Woodman – Reform UK
New Malden Village
- David Michael Bent – Reform UK
- Caroline Bowis – Conservatives
- John Crocket Bowis – Conservatives
- Tess Bowyer – Labour
- Mark James Durrant – Lib Dems
- Michelle Honor Gordon – Labour
- Lesley Anne Heap – Lib Dems
- Richard Hebborn – KIRG
- Lucy Howard – Green Party
- Jem Kale – Green Party
- Dongsung Kim – Lib Dems
- Valerie McIntyre – Conservatives
- Joel Monroe – Green Party
- Raju Pandya – KIRG
- Gary Alan See – Labour
- James David Winn Stileman – Reform UK
- Deepa Veneik – KIRG
Norbiton
- Tony Banks – Labour
- Sandira Beekoo – Conservatives
- Emily Davey – Lib Dems
- Kevin John Davis – Conservatives
- Sam Foulder-Hughes – Lib Dems
- Martin Andrew Hall – Green Party
- Christopher Llewellyn Last – Reform UK
- Fahima Mahomed – Green Party
- Liz Meerabeau – Labour
- Jo Melbourne – Reform UK
- Andrew Parker – Reform UK
- John Barnabas Rutter – Conservatives
- Dylan Stewart – Green Party
- Soha Sultana – KIRG
- Olly Wehring – Lib Dems
- Tom Wingfield – Labour
- Kerry Giles – KIRG
Old Malden
- Nicholas Richard David Badham – Reform UK
- John Baek – Conservatives
- Ismail Birant – Reform UK
- David Charlton – Green Party
- Harry George Foskin – Conservatives
- Clair Hebborn – KIRG
- Graeme Hodge – Labour
- Rahul Taran Khandelwal – Labour
- Mike Pascal Massimi – Lib Dems
- Elizabeth Park – Lib Dems
- Harrie Vischjager – Green Party
- Chris Walton – KIRG
- Michael Gerard Watson – Heritage Party
St Mark's and Seething Wells
- Joseph Al-Khalili – Labour
- Abbas Aref – Green Party
- Tim Brown – Conservatives
- Archie Coyne – Green Party
- Ayse Demir – Green Party
- Caroline Ford – Reform UK
- Emma Keeley Francis – Labour
- Nick Frei – Reform UK
- Brian John Matthews – Labour
- Helen Milestone – Lib Dems
- Marcus Reno Mohammed – Reform UK
- Carole Robinson – Conservatives
- Robert Sadler – Lib Dems
- Ian Wilson – Conservatives
- Yogan Yoganathan – Lib Dems
Surbiton Hill
- Jackie Alex – Reform UK
- Noel Edward Alex – Reform UK
- Kristine Marie Boudreau – Conservatives
- Andrea Chambers – KIRG
- Glen Colegate – KIRG
- Maxwell Oliver Freedman – Labour
- Peter William Harris – Reform UK
- Nannette Herbert – Green Party
- Alison Hamilton Holt – Lib Dems
- Easha-tir-Raazi Khawaja – KIRG
- Emma Loffler – Green Party
- Conor James McGovern-Paul – Green Party
- Tom Reeve – Lib Dems
- Alasdair Bruce Rennie – Conservatives
- Kris Saravanan – Labour
- Manish Shukla – Lib Dems
- Colin Suckling – Conservatives
- Rebecca Claire Way – Labour
Tolworth
- Luma Al-Azzawi – Green Party
- Grace Victoria Bowers – Labour
- Claire Louise Burlingsby – Green Party
- David John Butcher – Reform UK
- Jessica Dearlove – KIRG
- Martin Christopher Ellis – Labour
- Michael Winston Firth – KIRG
- Gill Gray – Labour
- Silva Kaludura – Reform UK
- Jane Lim – Lib Dems
- Owen Oastler – Green Party
- Emma Louise Mary Perham – Conservatives
- Martin Pike – Conservatives
- Graham Alan Seager – Reform UK
- Thay Thayalan – Lib Dems
- Mark David Thomas – KIRG
- Andrew Willson – Conservatives
- Andrew John Wooldridge – Lib Dems
Tudor
- Bernardo Barreto-Kuhlbrodt – Reform UK
- Julian Stewart Harvey Bedale – Conservatives
- Jamila Bibi-Sarwar – Conservatives
- Alison Jane Gomez-Russell – Green Party
- Syreeta Howard-James – KIRG
- Jithwin Lalam Venkata – Reform UK
- Andrew Michael Middleton – Labour
- Blaise Kemp Murphet – Lib Dems
- Stephen James Pike – Labour
- Lydia Poole – Green Party
- Sachin Tulyani – Lib Dems
- Maureen Wilkins – KIRG
The deadline to register to vote in the elections is midnight on 20 April. The deadline to apply to vote by post is 5pm on 21 April.
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