Hambleton

Of its 47 seats, 36 are in the hands of the Tories, with five Independents the next largest group.

Of the remaining big political parties, Labour have only two seats and the Liberal Democrats hold four. The council serves the Vale of York area, including Crayke and Easingwold, as well as the Northallerton and Thirsk districts.

This year, the whole of the council is standing for election. Candidates are:

Bedale – Carl Anthony Les (Con); John Keith Weighell (Con)

Brompton – Janet Seymour Kirk (Lab); Herbert Langthorne (Con)

Broughton and Greenhow – Nicholas Mark Land (Lib Dem); Margaret Skilbeck (Con)

Cowtons – William Michael James Milligan (Ind)

Crakehall – David Hamilton Smith (Ind)

Easingwold – Frank Wesley Abbey (Con); Jennifer Lilian Clare (Lab); Geoffrey William Ellis (Con); Julia Smith (Lib Dem)

Great Ayton – Peter Bell (Lib Dem); John Ernest Fletcher (Con); Frances Mary Greenwell (Con); June Imeson (Con); Jeffrey Edward King (Lab); Richard Thomas Short (Lib Dem)

Helperby – Peter George Sowray (Con)

Huby-Sutton – Graham Alan Jelley (Con); Peter Wilson (Lib Dem)

Leeming – Arthur William Barker (Con); Alan Benn (Lab)

Leeming Bar – Sally Anne Anderson (Lab); Susan Margaret Latter (Con)

Morton-on-Swale – John Michael Cundy (Lab); Brian Phillips (Con) Northallerton Broomfield – David Maurice Blades (Con); Edward Stanley Nash (Con); Andrew Paul Wake (Lab) Northallerton Central – John Coulson (Ind); Jack Dobson (Lab); Anthony William Hall (Con) Northallerton North – Ralph Irving Andrew (Con); Hilary Dobson (Lab); Michael John Prest (Con) Osmotherley – Bryn Griffiths (Lib Dem); Timothy Swales (Con) Romanby – Peter Gerald Brown (Con); Scott Arthur Dodsworth (Lab); John Nigel Smith (Con)

Rudby – Stephen Philip Dickins (Con); Bridget Susan Fortune (Con); Michael Potter (Lab); Simon Kent Whitfield (Lib Dem)

Shipton – David Campbell (Con); Mary Doreen Haigh (Lib Dem)

Sowerby – Vivien Lancaster (Lab); David Stanford Murkett (Con); Mark Stewart Robson (Con); Stanley William Wilson (Lib Dem)

Stillington – Christine Susan Cookman (Con) Stokesley – Jacqueline Anne Griffiths (Lib Dem); Michael John Rowland Hill (Lab); Michael Richardson (Con); Caroline Margaret Seymour (Lib Dem); John Anthony Thorp (Con) Swainby – Judith Kitching (Lib Dem); John Morley (Con)

Tanfield – David Anthony Webster (Con)

Thirsk – Stephen Hubbard (Con); Janet Marshall (Lab); Carole Mary Pack (Lib Dem); Andrew Robinson (Ind); Audrey Elizabeth Skipsey (Con)

Thorntons – Robert Alan Baker (Con) Tollerton – Frank Wade (Con)

Topcliffe – Robert Moray Anderson (Lib Dem); Neville William Huxtable (Con)

White Horse – Percy Featherstone (Con)

Whitestonecliffe – Denis Aubrey Howey (Con)