Hertsmere goes to the polls this May, and every borough council seat is up for election.

Polls open at 7am on Thursday, May 4 until 10pm the same day in each of the borough’s 16 wards.

Hertsmere Borough Council – which covers Borehamwood, Bushey, Potters Bar and Radlett – is currently controlled by the Conservative Group, with 28 councillors on the authority benches.

The Labour Group is the largest party in opposition, with seven authority members.

The Liberal Democrat Group fields three councillors who are all in Bushey North, while a seat in Shenley was left vacant following the death of Conservative councillor Anthony Spencer earlier in 2023.

With an “all out” election, Hertsmere’s political map could all change in less than a month’s time.

Here are the candidates in each ward, with the number of seats in each ward in brackets:

 

Borehamwood Brookmeadow (Three)

Graeme Alexander – Labour and Co-operative Party

Glenn Briski – Conservative Party

Rebecca Challice – Labour and Co-operative Party

Caroline Pitrakou – Labour and Co-operative Party

Alan Plancey – Conservative Party

Shivani Sachdev – Conservative Party

Irena Slack – Liberal Democrat Party
 

Borehamwood Cowley Hill (Three)

Richard Butler – Labour and Co-operative Party

Naomi Coleman – The Green Party

Paulo Goncalves – Liberal Democrat Party

Jake Landsberg – Conservative Party

Jeremy Newmark – Labour and Co-operative Party

Daniel Nygate – Conservative Party

Romy Rosehill – Conservative Party

Linda Smith – Labour and Co-operative Party
 

Borehamwood Hillside (Three)

Madalyn Bielfeld – The Green Party

Alexander Clarkson – Conservative Party

Alpha Collins – Labour Party

Victor Eni – Conservative Party

Richard Goorney – Liberal Democrat Party

Aaditya Kaza – Labour Party

Tushar Kumar – Labour Party

Farida Turner – Conservative Party
 

Borehamwood Kenilworth (Three)

Elaine Elliman – Liberal Democrat Party

Susan Glyn – Conservative Party

Emma Green – Conservative Party

Prabhakar Kaza – Labour and Co-operative Party

David Lazarus – Conservative Party

Nik Oakley – Labour and Co-operative Party

Parveen Rani – Labour and Co-operative Party
 

Elstree (near Borehamwood, Two)

Morris Bright – Conservative Party

Harvey Cohen – Conservative Party

Satvinder Juss – Labour Party

Jonathan Metzer – Labour Party

Igor Novokreshchenov – Libral Democrat Party

Theresa Smith – Liberal Democrat Party
 

Bushey Heath (Two)

Ollie Kay – Liberal Democrat Party

Roger Kutchinsky – Liberal Democrat Party

David Lee – Labour Party

Paul Morris – Conservative Party

Pooja Nirmal – Labour Party

Seamus Quilty – Conservative Party
 

Bushey North (Three)

Fenton Gee – Conservative Party

Jacob Jefferson – Conservative Party

Judith Maizels – Labour Party

Alan Matthews – Liberal Democrat Party

Elodie Mayo – Labour Party

Louise Nicolas – Liberal Democrat Party

Nish Patel – Conservative Party

Philip Reardon – Labour Party

Paul Richards – Liberal Democrat Party
 

Bushey Park (Three)

Maxie Allen – Liberal Democrat Party

Marc Amron – Liberal Democrat Party

David Carter – Conservative Party

Freda Guilfoyle – Labour Party

Di Hoeksma – Labour Party

Habib Khan – Labour Party

Shailain Shah – Liberal Democrat Party

Linda Silver – Conservative Party

Anne Swerling – Conservative Party
 

Bushey St James (Three)

Pervez Choudhury – Conservative Party

Peter Halsey – Labour Party

Mia Handley – Liberal Democrat Party

Miles Ponder – Liberal Democrat Party

Mary Reid – Labour Party

Yvonne Riley – Labour Party

Pater Rutledge – Conservative Party

Christopher Shenton – Liberal Democrat Party

Jane West – Conservative Party
 

Bentley Heath and The Royds (Potters Bar, Two)

John Doolan – Labour and Co-operative Party

Helen Green – Labour and Co-operative Party

Frank Jeffs – The Green Party

Meenal Sachdev – Conservative Party

Panna Shah – Conservative Party
 

Potters Bar Furzefield (Two)

Amit Dodhia – Conservative Party

Chris Gray – Labour and Co-operative Party

Nick Jankunas – Liberal Democrat Party

Chris Myers – Labour and Co-operative Party

Simon Rhodes – Reform UK

Martin Worster – Conservative Party
 

Potters Bar Oakmere (Two)

Joan Collins – The Green Party

Renos Georgiou – Labour and Co-operative Party

Ann Harrison – Labour and Co-operative Party

Sarah Hodgson-Jones – Conservative Party

Ruth Lyon – Conservative Party
 

Potters Bar Parkfield (Two)

Susan Ballard – Labour and Co-operative Party

Roy Bridgen – Liberal Democrat Party

Hannah Doolan – Labour and Co-operative Party

David Lister – The Green Party

Abhishek Sachdev – Conservative Party

Lynette Sullivan – Conservative Party
 

Aldenham East (incorporating part of Radlett, Two)

Ben Denton-Cardew – Liberal Democrat Party

Joshua Goldman – Labour Party

Stuart Howard – Liberal Democrat Party

Brett Rosehill – Conservative Party

Lucy Selby – Conservative Party

Julian Treves Brown – Labour Party
 

Aldenham West (incorporating part of Radlett, Two)

Saif Al-Saadoon – Liberal Democrat Party

Caroline Clapper – Conservative Party

Ronan Dhadra – Labour Party

Sandra Huff – Labour Party

David Lambert – Conservative Party

Jon May – Liberal Democrat Party
 

Shenley (Two)

Alexander Davies – Labour Party

Rosemary Gilligan – Independent

Holly Gunning – Liberal Democrat

Paul Hodgson-Jones – Conservative Party

John Humphries – The Green Party

David Lewis – Liberal Democrat Party

Darren Selkus – Reform UK

Jonathan Shaw – Labour Party

Natalie Susman – Conservative Party

 

To vote in the election, residents must register before 11.59pm on Monday, April 17, which they can do online: https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote.