Kensington and Chelsea 2026 Local Elections: Complete Candidate List Across All Wards
Local elections are set to take place across all 18 wards in Kensington and Chelsea on May 7, 2026. Residents will head to polling stations to decide who will represent them as councillors in their respective areas. This election sees a diverse array of candidates from major political parties, including Labour, Conservatives, Reform, Liberal Democrats, Greens, and Labour & Co-operative, alongside several independent contenders.
Candidate Breakdown by Party
A total of 229 candidates are vying for council positions. The distribution includes 50 candidates from Labour (with 10 of these representing Labour & Co-operative), 50 from the Liberal Democrats, 50 from the Conservatives, 50 from Reform, and 25 from the Green Party. Additionally, four independent candidates are running across various wards, adding to the competitive landscape.
Ward-by-Ward Candidate List
Below is a detailed breakdown of candidates standing for election on May 7, organized by ward to help residents identify their local options.
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Royal Hospital Ward
- Helen Ashby - Labour Party
- Elizabeth Jennifer Campbell - Conservative Party Candidate
- Caroline Church - Liberal Democrats
- Alice Clack - Green Party
- Deborah Iliffe - Reform UK
- Cem Campbell Kemahli - Conservative Party Candidate
- Paul Kerr - Reform UK
- David Alexander Linsey - Reform UK
- Abdulmajid Malin - Labour Party
- Penelope Pocock - Liberal Democrats
- Stuart Shapro - Labour Party
- Alexandra Walker - Liberal Democrats
- Emma Wingfield Will - Conservative Party Candidate
Norland Ward
- Max Alexander - Labour Party
- Angela Victoria Georgievski - Green Party
- Marc Goldfinger - Conservative Party Candidate
- Adam Irving - Reform UK
- Joe Mayers - Liberal Democrats
- Carmel McLoughlin - Liberal Democrats
- Stéphanie Petit - Conservative Party Candidate
- Amal Saleh - Labour Party
- David Spring - Reform UK
Stanley Ward
- Ali Awil - Labour Party
- Jose Buera - Liberal Democrats
- Marc Burca - Reform UK
- Emma Marie Mackenzie - Reform UK
- Carl Michel - Liberal Democrats
- Hassan Muhamud - Labour Party
- Arsalan Nazim - Liberal Democrats
- Sylvia Parnell - Labour Party
- Will Pascall - Conservative Party Candidate
- Josh Rendall - Conservative Party Candidate
- Iain A Smith - Independent
- Kim David Taylor-Smith - Conservative Party Candidate
- Lucy Woodruff - Reform UK
St Helen's Ward
- Billy Beckett - Labour and Co-operative Party
- Doulla Croft - Green Party
- Charles Dunn - Reform UK
- Charles Rupert Foster-Hall - Green Party
- Yusuf Ibrahim - Conservative Party Candidate
- Paula McPherson - Liberal Democrats
- Lucy Shaw - Labour and Co-operative Party
- Henry Sire - Reform UK
- Rosemary Somers - Liberal Democrats
- Maxwell Woodger - Conservative Party Candidate
Redcliffe Ward
- Maria Arana - Labour Party
- Robert Atkinson - Labour Party
- Tom Bennett - Conservative Party Candidate
- J-F Burford - Liberal Democrats
- Lucas Cadman - Labour Party
- Alexander Hewett - Reform UK
- Emma Hollands - Reform UK
- Michael Zihan Jin - Liberal Democrats
- Jonathan O'Keefe - Reform UK
- Marguerite Ohan - Liberal Democrats
- Marie-Therese Anne Rossi - Conservative Party Candidate
- Genevieve Shanahan - Green Party
- Sidney Yankson - Conservative Party Candidate
Queen's Gate Ward
- Max Dodd-Noble - Conservative Party Candidate
- Max Dunne - Green Party
- Sam Mackover - Conservative Party Candidate
- Sheila McGuirk - Liberal Democrats
- Bob Mingay - Labour Party
- Kezia Noble - Reform UK
- Linda Reid - Labour Party
- Keith Stirling - Labour Party
- Pawel Urbanski - Liberal Democrats
- Thomas Walker - Reform UK
- Ned Whitley - Conservative Party Candidate
- Luke Woollen - Liberal Democrats
- Juliet Zhong - Reform UK
Pembridge Ward
- Hridi J. Chowdhury - Liberal Democrats
- Sam Dodgshon - Liberal Democrats
- Kristi Gulliver - Reform UK
- Georgia Hardisty - Conservative Party Candidate
- Ayah Mamode - Labour Party
- Henry McWatters - Reform UK
- Taif Rahman - Labour Party
- Natacha Tannous Ritchie - Conservative Party Candidate
Notting Dale Ward
- Kasim Ali - Labour Party
- Adrian Christopher Cardenas - Reform UK
- Angie Defoe - Reform UK
- Cordelia Evans - Conservative Party Candidate
- Rema Farhan - Green Party
- Zack Gilpin - Reform UK
- Robin Hobbs - Reform UK
- Yury Kanavalau - Liberal Democrats
- Ben Creswell Louis Fforde - Conservative Party Candidate
- Ben Mayers - Liberal Democrats
- Tom Montgomery - Conservative Party Candidate
- Jamie Rahman - Green Party
- Gillian E Shaw - Liberal Democrats
- Claire Simmons - Labour Party
- Portia Thaxter - Labour Party
- Steph Warrick - Green Party
Holland Ward
- Aarien Uday Om Areti - Conservative Party Candidate
- Daniel Borrero Fresno - Liberal Democrats
- Lina El Baz - Labour Party
- Lena El-Malak - Green Party
- Lucy Knight - Conservative Party Candidate
- Hugh Lalor - Liberal Democrats
- Nadia Macdonald - Liberal Democrats
- Maahan Mirnezami - Reform UK
- Nellie Mirnezami - Reform UK
- Caterina Perrone - Labour Party
- Arman Rahimi - Reform UK
- Sonny Remmer-Riley - Labour Party
- Johnny Thalassites - Conservative Party Candidate
Golborne Ward
- Deida Acero - Reform UK
- Mona Adam - Green Party
- Alex Clarke - Green Party
- Donovan Gill - Reform UK
- Harry Hopkins - Conservative Party Candidate
- Sabina Kelly - Liberal Democrats
- Sina Lari - Labour and Co-operative Party
- Ellie Jane Lines - Conservative Party Candidate
- Peter Marshall - Labour and Co-operative Party
- Nadia Nail - Labour and Co-operative Party
- Andrew Roland - Liberal Democrats
- Tony Somers - Liberal Democrats
- Bhupinder Kaur Sudan - Green Party
- Kieran Terry - Conservative Party Candidate
- Krzysztof Ziembla - Reform UK
Earl's Court Ward
- Deida Acero - Reform UK
- Mona Adam - Green Party
- Alex Clarke - Green Party
- Donovan Gill - Reform UK
- Harry Hopkins - Conservative Party Candidate
- Sabina Kelly - Liberal Democrats
- Sina Lari - Labour and Co-operative Party
- Ellie Jane Lines - Conservative Party Candidate
- Peter Marshall - Labour and Co-operative Party
- Nadia Nail - Labour and Co-operative Party
- Andrew Roland - Liberal Democrats
- Tony Somers - Liberal Democrats
- Bhupinder Kaur Sudan - Green Party
- Kieran Terry - Conservative Party Candidate
- Krzysztof Ziembla - Reform UK
Dalgarno Ward
- Alex De Silva - Conservative Party Candidate
- Rahul Imran - Green Party
- Eva Jedut - Independent
- Rayen Naghi - Green Party
- Gordon Newell - Conservative Party Candidate
- Abdullahi Nur - Labour and Co-operative Party
- Margaret Louise Parker - Reform UK
- Alex Porter - Labour and Co-operative Party
- Nuria Sabin-Mosquera - Liberal Democrats
- Alex Tatton-Brown - Liberal Democrats
- Albert Woodruff - Reform UK
Courtfield Ward
- Tina Alkaff - Labour Party
- Alex Anstruther - Labour Party
- Alex Brown - Labour Party
- Luisa Esposito - Liberal Democrats
- Janet Evans - Conservative Party Candidate
- Robert Fleming - Reform UK
- Greg Hammond - Conservative Party Candidate
- Vincent Lowe - Liberal Democrats
- Quentin Marshall - Conservative Party Candidate
- Christophe Noblet - Liberal Democrats
- Margaret Pringle - Labour Party
- Theo Zaman Albakri Verden - Green Party
- Luke Wates - Reform UK
- Claire Wheatley - Reform UK
Colville Ward
- Cyrus Ardalan - Liberal Democrats
- Samantha Batra - Green Party
- Toby James Benton - Green Party
- Wilson Leon Brathwaite - Green Party
- Cihan Cheron - Labour Party
- Elena Gheorghe - Conservative Party Candidate
- Theodore Andrew Francis Karpinski - Reform UK
- Minna Johanna Korjonen - Conservative Party Candidate
- Tom Mayers - Liberal Democrats
- Brian James Orrell - Liberal Democrats
- Monica Press - Labour Party
- Jack Reason - Labour Party
- Deborah A Skinner - Reform UK
- Matthew Snell - Reform UK
- Rahul Tharmaratnam - Conservative Party Candidate
- Steph Warrick - Green Party
Chelsea Riverside
- Andrew David Barclay - Reform UK
- Heena Bellara - Conservative Party Candidate
- Amal Ah Bider - Independent
- Julian Burger - Green Party
- Laura Burns - Conservative Party Candidate
- Max Chauhan - Conservative Party Candidate
- Mike Coelho - Labour Party
- Anne Corbett - Labour Party
- Keith Cunningham - Labour Party
- Moya Denman - Liberal Democrats
- Alexa Jago - Reform UK
- Peter Kosta - Liberal Democrats
- Margo Schwartz - Liberal Democrats
- Henry Woodruff - Reform UK
Campden Ward
- Otto Barrow - Labour Party
- Christopher Bellamy - Liberal Democrats
- Juan Carrizosa - Liberal Democrats
- Victoria Chapman - Reform UK
- Stephen Anthony Conboy - Independent
- Ruth Daniel - Labour Party
- Ouafae Elmansouri - Labour Party
- Juni Farmanfarmai - Liberal Democrats
- Catherine Faulks - Conservative Party Candidate
- Preety Hudd - Conservative Party Candidate
- Josh Ismail - Reform UK
- Lloyd North - Conservative Party Candidate
- Alistair Carl Wellmann - Reform UK
Brampton and Hans Town Ward
- Penelope Bouchot Humbert - Reform UK
- Bella Buchanan - Reform UK
- Maurizio Campolo - Liberal Democrats
- Rees Cowne - Liberal Democrats
- Walaa Idris - Conservative Party Candidate
- Marian Kearney - Labour Party
- Suzy Lewis - Reform UK
- Alia Mahmud - Liberal Democrats
- Sof McVeigh - Conservative Party Candidate
- Kasper Moller - Labour Party
- Ambigai Waters - Labour Party
- Mary Caroline Weale - Conservative Party Candidate
Abingdon Ward
- Sarah Ann Louise Addenbrooke - Conservative Party Candidate
- Angus Cameron - Liberal Democrats
- Justin Cook - Reform UK
- Anne Barbara Cyron - Conservative Party Candidate
- Guler Alice Ergun - Green Party
- Jeremy Good - Liberal Democrats
- Pat Healy - Labour Party
- James Alexander Husband - Conservative Party Candidate
- Annabelle Louvros - Labour Party
- Fiona Scott McWatters - Reform UK
- Andrew Moran - Labour Party
- Jonathan Robert Owen - Liberal Democrats
- Max Windsor - Reform UK
This election marks a significant moment for local democracy in Kensington and Chelsea, with a wide range of candidates offering diverse perspectives for the community's future. Residents are encouraged to review the candidate lists and participate in the democratic process on May 7, 2026.
