These are the contested Malvern Hills District Council wards for the election on Thursday, May 3.

Alfrick and Leigh Ward

Number of seats: 2 Steve Brown: Liberal Democrats David Hughes: Conservative Michael George Jackson: Green Michael David Savage: UK Independence Mark Anthony Starr: UK Independence Anthony Warburton: Conservative Matthew Williams: Green

Broadheath Ward

Number of seats: 2 Miranda Louise Davies: Liberal Democrats Don Hull: Conservative Aubrey Tarbuck: Conservative

Chase Ward

Number of seats: 3 Caroline Bovey: UK Independence Richard Cook: Conservative Jan Dyer: Green Donald James Pearce: Liberal Democrats Jon Rayner: Lib Dem Richard Simmonds: Conservative Joe Smith: Conservatives Penny Vere: Lib Dem

Dyson Perrins Ward

Number of seats: 2 Serena Croad: Conservative Jan Marriott: Lib Dem Graham George Myatt: Liberal Democrats Joe Sturge: Green John Waring: Conservative Steph Wren: Green

Hallow Ward

Number of seats: 1 Jonathan Hickton: Conservative Peter Jackson: Lib Dem

Kempsey Ward

Number of seats: 2 Carole Ann Atwal: Lib Dem Michael Richmond Biddle: Independent Nicholas Kerry Chance: British National Party Nicholas John Fowler: Conservative Christopher Watkinson Simmonds: Conservative Marian Walters: Independent

Link Ward

Number of seats: 3 Sabina Alam: Conservative Penny Douglas: Lib Dem Kamala Holt: Green Christopher John Lennard: Green Neville Mills: Lib Dem Sylvia Elizabeth Scarsbrook: Green Clive Smith: Lib Dem Mike Soley: Conservative Paul Andrew Tuthill: Conservative

Longdon Ward

Number of seats: 1 Bronwen Behan: Conservative John Humphreys: Lib Dem Morton Ward Number of seats: 1 Beverley Anne Adams-Groom: Green Roger James Cousins: Liberal Democrats David Watkins: Conservative

Powick Ward

Number of seats: 2 Roger Gurney: Conservative Ken Pollock: Conservative Stephen J Watkins: Lib Dem Tom Wells: Lib Dem

Pickersleigh Ward

Number of seats: 3 David William Houghton-Smith: Conservative Pat Mewton: Conservative Valerie Rose Myatt: Liberal Democrats Richard Perkins: Green Brian John Murdoch Pilcher: Liberal Democrats Alex Stewart-Cleary: Conservative Martin Roy Thorne: Green Sheila Young: Liberal Democrats

Priory Ward

Number of seats: 2 Robert John Dowler: Green Roger Hall-Jones: Conservative Ralph John Madden: Conservative Elizabeth Robb Mills: Liberal Democrats Melinda Hazel Platt: Green Philip Cecil Rumney: Liberal Democrats Richard Grant Spencer: UK Independence

Ripple Ward

Number of seats: 1 Bob Martin: Conservative Dennis Charles Nightingale-Smith: Green Roger James Sutton: Independent

Tenbury Ward

Number of seats: 2 Malcolm Newton Chase: Liberal Democrats Phil Grove: Conservative Jonathan Pryce Morgan: Independent Tony Penn: Conservative George Price: Liberal Democrats

Upton and Hanley Ward

Number of seats: 2 Jack Bennett: UK Independence Sam Durham: Green Syd Harrison: Conservative Chris Mair: Liberal Democrats Mike Morgan: Conservative Richard John Dennis Partos: Liberal Democrats

Wells Ward

Number of seats: 2 Geoffrey Bishop: UK Independence Jill Campbell: Conservative Chris Cheeseman: Conservative Diane Rayner: Lib Dem John Aidan Tretheway: Liberal Democrats Malcolm Gordon Victory: Green

West Ward

Number of seats: 2 Beryl Hickling: Conservative Jennie Kelly: Conservative Ron Mason: Lib Dem John Watson Raine: Green Tony Williams: Lib Dem