A political analyst says British Columbia Premier David Eby faces a “moment of real peril” as legislators return to Victoria this week.

Eby has staked his government on plans to suspend sections of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act for up to three years.

The premier has told First Nations leaders in a recent meeting that he plans to introduce legislation to suspend the sections this week.

Stewart Prest from the University of British Columbia says he does not understand why the premier would risk his office on the issue, and that the plans make a promise by the Conservative Party of B.C. to repeal all of DRIPA more appealing.

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First Nation leaders have voiced opposition to Eby’s plans, and one of them — Grand Chief Stewart Phillip of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs — has said his wife, NDP legislature member Joan Phillip, won’t be voting for the suspension.

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The B.C. Greens have also signalled their opposition, but Prest says Eby’s government, with its single-seat majority, could still survive a confidence vote by courting the six Independents or finding other arrangements to avoid an election.

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The premier has said government faces “very serious litigation risk” from a December court decision known as the Gitxaala ruling.

It says DRIPA should be “properly interpreted” to immediately incorporate the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples into B.C. laws.

Eby said in a letter obtained by The Canadian Press that the ruling means every provincial law can be challenged for being inconsistent with the UN declaration.

Three key federal byelections are underway on Monday with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party teetering on the edge of a majority in the House of Commons.

Just over half of Canadians want the federal Liberals to win enough seats in Monday’s byelections to give Carney a majority government, new polling suggests.

The Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News found that 53 per cent of Canadians want the Liberals to form a majority, while 47 per cent are opposed to the idea.

The byelections on April 13 are taking place in the ridings of:

The byelections follow a number of MP departures and controversial ballot counting.

If the Liberals win two of the three byelections, they will hold 173 seats, or 174 seats if they win all three byelections, which would let them pass legislation without needing to rely on the Speaker or on any other parties to support them.

Polls will open from 8:30 am local time to 8:30 pm local time for Scarborough Southwest and 9 am local time to 9 pm local time for University-Rosedale and Terrebonne, Elections Canada said.

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Ontario’s jails are running vastly above capacity, according to new data, which shows the oversubscribed corrections system is in a worse place than it was just two years ago.

New documents obtained by Global News using freedom of information laws reveal Ontario’s correctional facilities are operating at an average of 130 per cent full, with just five of the 25 facilities on the list reporting less than 100 per cent occupancy.

The data — which refers to occupancy statistics from October 2025 — shows some parts of Ontario are struggling more than others.

The Sudbury Jail, for example, was at 165.7 per cent capacity, while the Milton-Vanier Centre for Women was at 164 per cent. Occupancy at the South West Detention Centre sat at 158.4 per cent

The Maplehurst Correctional Complex, with 1,525 inmates, was at 137 per cent.

“The corrections facilities are in crisis today,” Ontario NDP MPP Krysten Wong-Tam told Global News. “It’s not a matter of whether or not we need to wait until they’re 200 per cent over capacity. We’re already at this breaking point.”

The institutions tracked hold people accused of a crime but not out on bail, as well as those serving sentences of two years less a day.

According to the documents, Ontario records the capacity of 25 separate institutions. One was operating at 77 per cent capacity — the only facility to report inmate totals lower than 91 per cent.

Eighty per cent of the institutions tracked were operating over capacity, many by massive margins.

The data shows a marked increase on September 2023, when figures obtained by The Canadian Press put province-wide capacity at 113 per cent. Two years later, Ontario’s jails are 15 per cent further over their planned capacity.

Maplehurst, which is the subject of an investigation by the province’s Ombudsman, had 1,188 inmates in a facility designed for 887 back in 2023. As of 2025, the government listed its operational capacity at 1,112 — with 1,550-plus inmates crammed inside.

The overcrowding at Ontario’s jails has partly contributed to a system where experts worry contraband, including drugs, “flows like gravy,” and lockdowns are increasingly regular.

The same data from The Canadian Press found that roughly 80 per cent of all inmates at Ontario’s jails were awaiting trial — and therefore innocent under the country’s legal system.

Howard Sapers, the executive director of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, said Ontario’s jails have been “dangerously overcrowded” for decades.

“More than 70 out of every 100 people who are sleeping in an Ontario jail cell tonight haven’t been convicted of an offence,” he said. “This lays waste to the principle of the presumption of innocence. It also lays waste to the argument we have a catch and release system and that our bail is too lenient.”

A spokesperson for the solicitor general’s office did not address questions about how jail capacity continues to worsen, why the province was unprepared for new inmates or how many people are released early as a result of capacity issues.

“Across the province, we are adding over 1,400 new beds in corrections facilities, hiring 2,500 new staff and investing $3 billion to update corrections infrastructure to ensure dangerous criminals are never released due to a lack of space in adult correctional institutions,” they wrote, before referencing the former Liberal government’s pre-2018 policies.

The province has added at least 267 new beds since 2018, yet capacity issues have still worsened.

“Our government continues to explore new ways to bring more capacity to our corrections facilities faster, and will be unveiling additional expansions in the coming months,” the spokesperson added.

The province is in the midst of a new infrastructure build, planning to add 1,000 new beds to its portfolio, including through modular buildings and conversions, to speed up the process.

Ontario Liberal MPP Karen McCrimmon said the system was in dire condition.

“After eight years, the out-of-touch Ford Conservative Government has left Ontario with a corrections system in crisis,” she wrote in a statement.

“This is what happens when a government gets its priorities wrong. Instead of strengthening essential public services, they’ve allowed the justice system to become dangerously overstretched.”

The government has faced growing questions about its correctional facilities, as it leans into tough-on-crime rhetoric and issues within the system grow.

A high-profile incident at Maplehurst, where inmates were stripped down to their boxer shorts and forced to sit on the floor facing the wall, with their wrists zip-tied together, drew particular attention.

Previously, the Toronto Star released security footage relating to the event, including correctional officers dressed in tactical gear patrolling as inmates sat on the floor.

The ombudsman’s office said it had received 60 complaints about the incident, including from some directly involved. They also said several inmates have had their sentences reduced because of the incident.

The auditor general also previously found that some of Ontario’s jails are operating at 150 per cent capacity, pointing out that the majority of inmates are awaiting trial and have not been found guilty.

Last year, the ombudsman urgently called on the government to take action.

“Ontario’s correctional system is in urgent need of meaningful, systemic reform — not only to relieve pressure on overcrowded facilities and burned-out staff, but to realign the system with its rehabilitative purpose,” he wrote.

“This is a matter of public safety, human rights, and basic decency. We cannot afford to ignore it any longer.”

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Voters are heading back to the polls for a byelection in the federal riding of Terrebonne on Monday, just under a year after one of the closest and most disputed election results in Canadian history.

In last year’s general election, Terrebonne was called for Liberal Tatiana Auguste by just one vote, flipping the riding from incumbent Bloc Québécois MP Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné.

The Supreme Court of Canada nullified the result earlier this year after a challenge from the Bloc over a ballot processing error, which the party said would have resulted in a tie.

Auguste and Sinclair-Desgagné are facing off again in a rematch that is expected to be close once more.

Conservative candidate Adrienne Charles, New Democrat candidate Maxime Beaudoin and Green Party candidate Benjamin Rankin are also all seeking the riding for a second time.

Nearly four dozen other candidates are also on the ballot, thanks to a campaign by the Longest Ballot Committee that is pushing for electoral reform.

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Voters in the federal riding of Scarborough Southwest will choose their first new member of Parliament in more than a decade in Monday’s byelection.

The Toronto-area riding had been held since 2015 by Liberal MP Bill Blair, the former Toronto police chief who served as public safety minister and defence minister under former prime minister Justin Trudeau.

Blair resigned earlier this year to serve as Canada’s high commissioner to the United Kingdom.

The Liberals have nominated former Ontario New Democratic Party deputy leader and MPP Doly Begum as their candidate to potentially succeed Blair. Begum resigned from the Ontario NDP after accepting the Liberal nomination.

She will face off against Conservative candidate Diana Filipova, NDP candidate Fatima Shaban and Green Party candidate Pooja Malhotra.

The riding has been held by the Liberals since its creation in the 1990s with the exception of the NDP’s Dan Harris, who flipped the riding in the 2011 “orange wave” election.

Scarborough Southwest sits on the shore of Lake Ontario and encompasses parts of Scarborough Village and other neighbourhoods in the Scarborough district of Toronto.

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Artificial intelligence has quickly become part of everyday life, helping people search for information, complete schoolwork, and make decisions. But what many users don’t realize is that AI systems are not neutral. They are shaped by hidden design choices that influence how they respond — and, ultimately, how people think.

The concern is not just theoretical. A recent Fox News Digital report highlighted the controversy surrounding Google’s Gemini chatbot after the system identified multiple Republican senators as violating its hate speech policies — while naming no Democrats. 

The findings, based on a prompt evaluating all 100 U.S. senators, raised fresh questions about whether AI systems can reflect ideological assumptions embedded in their training data and design.

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That episode is not an isolated case.

A new report from America First Policy Institute (AFPI) reveals that many AI systems consistently lean in particular ideological directions.

These biases can affect how political issues, social topics and news sources are presented. Because users often trust AI as an objective tool, these subtle influences can shape opinions over time without users realizing it.

Matthew Burtell, a senior policy analyst for AI and Emerging Technology at AFPI, said the pattern appears across the industry — not just in isolated cases.

“What we found was a general ideological bias, not just in a particular model, but across the spectrum,” Burtell told Fox News Digital, adding that the models tend to lean center left.

The implications go beyond bias alone. Research shows that AI systems are not just reflecting viewpoints — they can actively influence them.

That combination — bias and persuasion — raises deeper concerns about AI’s role in shaping public opinion. “AI is persuasive and it also leans left,” Burtell said. “So if you combine these two things, it may certainly have an influence on people’s beliefs about different policies.” 

Recent examples have fueled those concerns. OpenAI’s ChatGPT has faced criticism from some researchers who argue its responses on political and cultural issues can skew in a particular ideological direction, while Microsoft’s AI tools have drawn scrutiny for how they frame controversial topics and limit certain viewpoints.

Those concerns have been reflected in testing as well. In 2024, Fox News Digital evaluated several leading AI chatbots — including Google’s Gemini, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot and Meta AI — to assess potential racial bias.

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The report also raises serious safety concerns.

AI systems have, in some cases, engaged in harmful interactions — especially with younger users. Without clear transparency about how these systems are designed and what safeguards are in place, parents and users cannot make informed decisions about which platforms are safe.

To address these risks, the report calls for greater transparency from tech companies. This includes disclosing how systems are designed, what values they prioritize, how they are tested for bias and safety, and what incidents occur after deployment.

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The goal is not to control what AI systems say, but to give the public enough information to evaluate them critically.

Ultimately, the report makes it clear that AI is not just a tool — it is a powerful force shaping how people access information and understand the world.

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Without transparency, users remain in the dark about the biases embedded in these systems. And as AI becomes more influential, that lack of visibility may have far-reaching consequences for individuals and society alike.

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The US military announced it will stop all maritime traffic entering and leaving Iranian ports

The United States will blockade Iranian ports on the Strait of Hormuz, as oil prices climb higher.

The US military has confirmed it will stop all maritime traffic entering and leaving Iranian ports, starting at 10am ET (2pm GMT) today. US crude oil prices rose eight per cent to $104.24 a barrel in early trading, while Brent crude, the international benchmark, climbed seven per cent to $102.29.

According to The Mirror, Brent crude has fluctuated wildly throughout the Iran conflict, jumping from around $70 per barrel prior to the war in late February to as high as $119 at various points.

On Friday (April 10) ahead of the peace talks, Brent for June delivery dropped 0.8% to $95.20 per barrel. Trump has stated his order is a direct response to Iran “knowingly failing” to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, while warning that the US Navy will “blow to hell” any Iranians who attack them, and will intercept any vessel found paying transit tolls to Iran.

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the Iranian parliamentary speaker who spearheaded negotiations in Islamabad, has ridiculed Donald Trump in an X post referencing US plans to blockade the Strait of Hormuz.

The post read: “Enjoy the current pump figures. With the so-called ‘blockade’, soon you’ll be nostalgic for $4-$5 gas.” An image was also shared of a map appearing to show petrol prices across Washington, D.C.

In an earlier statement carried by Iranian outlets, Ghalibaf declared that Iran will not “surrender under threats”.

WASHINGTON — The big election over the weekend was in a small European country nearly half a world away from Washington, but the defeat of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has significant reverberations in the United States.

That’s because President Donald Trump and many U.S. conservatives have long embraced Orbán, who has become an icon among the global right for his anti-immigrant stance. The American president’s agenda has striking parallels with the way the Hungarian leader used the levers of government to tilt the media, judiciary and electoral system to keep his party in power for 16 years.

Trump supported Orbán’s reelection bid and even dispatched Vice President JD Vance to Budapest last week — in the midst of the Iran war — to stump for the incumbent.

Orbán’s loss was a reminder of how the war has diminished Trump’s ability to help allied politicians overseas, as well as of the limited ability of leaders to use their power to tilt voting in their direction in an age of worldwide discontent over incumbents of all ideological stripes.

“Oppositions can win despite a tilted playing field,” said Steven Levitsky, a politics professor at Harvard and coauthor of the book “How Democracies Die.” “Democracies are facing many challenges in many parts of the world, but so are autocracies.”

Orbán’s defeat has immediate global implications because he was the European leader closest to Russian President Vladimir Putin and had blocked European Union aid to Ukraine, which is defending itself after Russian’s 2022 invasion.

His fall was celebrated on Sunday by both Democrats and Republicans, some of whom criticized their own administration for such overt support for the Hungarian leader.

“Don’t fiddle-paddle in other democracies’ elections,” Republican Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska said on the social media site X.

“The freedom-loving people of Hungary have voted decisively in favor of democracy and the rule of law,” posted Republican Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi.

Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union, is part of the wing of the American right that embraced Orbán. The Conservative Political Action Conference, which Schlapp’s group hosts, held its first European session in Budapest and has made Hungary a regular destination.

Orban was a featured speaker at the group’s conference in Dallas in 2022.

Schlapp said there’s an easy explanation for Orbán’s loss.

“Eventually, democracies just want change,” he said. “In democracies, you don’t have kings, and the people in the end speak.”

“The people of Hungary were saying, ‘We’re having a difficult time with inflation, the economy and the war. Let’s try the new guy,’” Schlapp said, noting that he backs Trump’s Iran war but the turmoil it’s created, especially in European energy markets, hurt Orbán.

Diana Sosoaca, a far-right member of the European Parliament from Romania, on Sunday called Vance’s Hungarian visit “a big mistake” given widespread revulsion at the Iran war on the continent.

“You invite a representative of the United States of America, who created the big disorder in this world?” Sosoaca said in an interview posted by the Kremlin-controlled network RT, formerly known as Russia Today. “It was the biggest mistake he could do before the elections.”

An anti-communist activist in his youth, Orbán was initially elected prime minister in 1998 but took a turn to the right after being voted out in 2002. Upon returning to office in 2010, Orbán and his Fidesz party implemented a legal framework to consolidate authority that he and his allies developed while he was out of power.

Orbán embraced what he dubbed “illiberal democracy,” building a barrier on Hungary’s southern border to block migrants from Africa and Asia who were moving northward through Europe. He and his party stifled LGBTQ+ rights, cracked down on freedom of the press and undermined judicial independence.

Orbán cemented his power when his Fidesz party won enough seats in Parliament during the 2010 global recession to rewrite the country’s constitution. They restructured the judiciary to funnel appointments to the bench through party loyalists, redrew legislative districts to make it much harder for Fidesz members to lose elections and helped push Hungary’s media companies to be sold to tycoons allied with Orban.

The European Union has declared Hungary an “electoral autocracy.”

Orbán backers have scoffed at suggestions that the Hungarian leader is an enemy of democracy, and on Sunday he quickly conceded his loss. Democrats have worried that Trump will try to use his own executive power to tilt November’s midterm elections or the 2028 presidential vote to his party, much as Trump tried to use his official powers to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 presidential election.

“Most importantly for American voters, even a guy who rigs the system can be defeated when the people unite and turn out against him,” said Ian Bassin of Protect Democracy, a nonpartisan group that says it combats authoritarianism.

Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California took the opportunity to jab at Vance: “Your ally Orban conceded. In 2028, will you @JDVance follow suit if you lose?” he posted on X.

Levitsky said defenders of democracy shouldn’t take too much comfort from Orbán’s loss, noting that in some ways Trump has been more oppressive. He cited Trump’s use of the Justice Department to investigate political opponents and the shooting deaths of protesters by immigration officers — steps that Orban’s government never took, Levitsky said.

But Sen. Chris Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat, said he sees parallels between Trump’s and Orban’s political projects, as well as the potential fate of their parties at the polls.

“He was essentially doing what Donald Trump is trying to do here in the United States,” Van Hollen said of Orban. “My read of the election is that the people of Hungary rejected that, just like people in the United States are rejecting that here at home.”

Trump made no public comments Sunday about the election results in Hungary.

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Riccardi reported from Denver.

Voters will once again vote in local elections when the polls open on Thursday, May 7. Several Cambridgeshire councils have now announced lists of candidates standing in the May 2026 elections.

This year, elections are taking place in Huntingdonshire, South Cambridgeshire, Cambridge City, and Peterborough. However, they will not be taking place in East Cambridgeshire and Fenland, as these will take place in 2027.

This year’s elections will take place on Thursday, May 7. People have until midnight on Monday, April 20, to register to vote. For postal vote, the deadline is by 5pm on April 21. The deadline for a proxy vote is by 5pm on April 28.

Here is all you need to know about this year’s elections and who is elected in different wards.

South Cambridgeshire District Council

Elections will be held for all seats across South Cambridgeshire, including the district council, as well as town and parish councils. For the district council, the following candidates are nominated:

Balsham

• John Richard Biggs – Conservative
• David Burrell – Reform UK
• Bob Ensch – Green
• Geoff Harvey – Liberal Democrats
• Martin Parker Dixon – Labour

Bar Hill

• Graeme Hodgson – Labour
• Paul Pallan – Reform UK
• William George Scantlebury – Liberal Democrats
• Rebecca Seabrook-Tedd – Green
• Bunty Elizabeth Waters – Conservative

Barrington

• Colin Graham French – Conservative
• Jim Huntington – Reform UK
• Clare Rogers – Green
• Clare Sinclair – Labour
• Aidan Thomas Van De Weyer – Liberal Democrats

Bassingbourn

• Adam Bostanci – Liberal Democrats
• Karen Fiona Livingstone – Labour
• Christopher Rolf Meakin – Conservative
• Joseph Price – Green
• Stephanie Wright – Reform UK

Caldecote

• Terence John Cross – Reform UK
• John Robert Jefferies – Liberal Democrats
• Guy Lachlan – Independent
• Tom Postlethwaite – Green
• Chiranjeevi Sandi – Conservative
• Judith Louise Tustian – Labour

Cambourne

• Donavan Michael Bangs – Reform UK
• Shrobona Bhattacharya – Conservative
• Michael Allan Booth – Liberal Democrats
• Gavin Clayton – Green
• Rob Denison – Green
• Timothy Frances Lagé Hayes – Labour
• Dalia Heggo – Independent
• Trevor Jarman – Reform UK
• Paul Alexander Jobling – Reform UK
• Helene Elizabeth Leeming – Liberal Democrats
• Nick Rana-Beadle – Conservative
• Amber Thomas – Liberal Democrats
• Daniel John White – Conservative
• David Allan Williams – Labour

Caxton and Papworth

• Charles Barclay – Reform UK
• Leslie Charles Edwards – Conservative
• Andy Perkins – Labour
• James Earl Pickford – Reform UK
• Chris Poulton – Liberal Democrats
• Peter David Sandford – Liberal Democrats
• Mandy Smith – Conservative
• Tagl – Green
• Jane Turner – Green

Cottenham

• Nigel Charles Francis Bolitho – Conservative
• Laura Cain – Green
• James Ronald Cochrane – Reform UK
• Colin Coe – Green
• Yasmin Dexter – Liberal Democrats
• Frederick Thomas Hargreaves – Reform UK
• Thomas Mark Hingston – Labour
• Linda Mary Morris – Conservative
• Gethin James Sanger – Labour
• Eileen Wilson – Liberal Democrats

Duxford

• Samuel Alexander Betz – Conservative
• David Horace Dobson – Labour
• Peter John McDonald – Liberal Democrats
• Tim Pavelin – Green
• Peter Young – Reform UK

Fen Ditton and Fulbourn

• Tim Andrews – Labour
• Chris Bailey – Labour
• Colin Barker – Reform UK
• Steve Bradshaw – Green
• Ian Paul Crowson – Conservative
• Vince Farrar – Liberal Democrats
• Karen Elizabeth French – Conservative
• Jacob Gray – Green
• Carla Hofman – Liberal Democrats
• Lukaz Lakomy – Reform UK
• Lee Andrew Martin – Conservative
• Angela Belinda Platt – Labour
• Ciprian Sandu – Reform UK
• Elisabeth Whitbread – Green
• Chloe Wills-Eve – Liberal Democrats

Foxton

• Donald Fisher Douglas – Conservative
• Luca Raffaello Ercole – Green
• James Hobro – Liberal Democrats
• Liz Miller – Reform UK
• Lavinia Anne Marie Pugh – Labour

Gamlingay

• Derek Graham Hill – Reform UK
• Rosanna Mahmood Bishop – Green
• Diane Audrey Myers – Conservative
• Giordy Salvi – Labour
• Dorrington Bridget Zoe Smith – Liberal Democrats

Girton

• Paula Brown – Reform UK
• Corinne Garvie – Liberal Democrats
• Stephen William George – Conservative
• Matthew Henden Gilbey – Green
• Clare Rachel Gray – Green
• Sarah Antonia Johnson – Labour
• Timothy Scott – Reform UK
• Richard Keith Stobart – Liberal Democrats
• Jennifer Margaret Stuart – Conservative

Hardwick

• Joe Beastall – Labour
• Hugh Clough – Green
• Catherine Stella Ffolliot Hubbard – Liberal Democrats
• Helen Manson – Reform UK
• Lina Maria Nieto – Conservative

Harston and Comberton

• Duncan Bullivant – Reform UK
• Henry Bullivant – Reform UK
• Ariel Martin Cahn – Liberal Democrats
• Laurence Peter Damary-Homan – Liberal Democrats
• Helen Haugh – Labour
• Aled Wynne Jones – Green
• Pauline Barbara Joslin – Conservative
• Lorraine Wendy Mooney – Conservative
• Emily Morris-Lower – Reform UK
• Lisa Sarah Redrup – Liberal Democrats
• Joseph Shortmoor – Labour
• Peter Andrew Slavny – Labour
• Michelle Taylor – Green
• Joshua Charles Vanneck – Conservative
• Lucy Young – Green

Histon and Impington

• John Brian Abbott – Reform UK
• Jayasimha Reddy Berumgudem – Conservative
• Chris Boulton – Reform UK
• Martin Gabriel Chahn – Liberal Democrats
• Mandy Kawalko – Reform UK
• Adam Morgan – Green
• Simon Charles Patenall – Labour
• Isaac Harry Rawlings – Labour
• James Rixton – Liberal Democrats
• Geo Sebastian – Liberal Democrats
• Edd Stonham – Green
• Mark Spencer Stuart – Conservative
• Paul Tarita – Green
• Joshua Michael Willis – Conservative

Linton

• Nathan Banks – Green
• Henry Batchelor – Liberal Democrats
• John Batchelor – Liberal Democrats
• Katy Ensch – Green
• Sarah Jane Hucum – Reform UK
• Merrie Mannassi – Reform UK
• Mike Murray – Labour
• Yorsh Naidoo – Conservative
• Ernie Turkington – Labour
• Sean Williams – Conservative

Longstanton

• Dominic George Brigstocke – Labour
• Tom Bygott – Conservative
• Alison Paula Elcox – Reform UK
• Sunita Hansraj – Liberal Democrats
• Lucy Ann Mance – Green
• Tristan Luke Pithers – Conservative
• Silke Scott-Mance – Green
• Liam Donovan Varnam – Reform UK
• Natalie Warren-Green – Liberal Democrats
• Clare Rosemary Wilson – Labour

Melbourn

• Mark Edward Arnold – Conservative
• Lee John Bovington – Reform UK
• James Phillip Bull – Labour
• Simon James Copley – Green
• Bobby Ford – Labour
• Jose Hales – Liberal Democrats
• Sally Ann Hart – Liberal Democrats
• Thomas Julian Charles Leigh – Conservative
• Max Henry Schwiening – Green
• Phyllis Smith – Reform UK

Milton and Waterbeach

• Gail Denise Arnold – Conservative
• Paul Joseph Bearpark – Liberal Democrats
• Anna Elizabeth Bradnam – Liberal Democrats
• Ellie Crane – Green
• Oli Fisher – Green
• Natania Goldrich – Reform UK
• Ann Hodson – Reform UK
• Ge Huang – Conservative
• Laura Macleod – Liberal Democrats
• Elizabeth Anne McWilliams – Labour
• Frank Morris – Conservative
• Mary Judith Perkins – Labour
• Ron Sharp – Reform UK
• Joe Welford – Green
• Gareth Mark Wright – Labour

Over and Willingham

• Jason Denison – Green
• Robert Fairbrother – Reform UK
• Ian Hunter – Labour
• James Hutchcraft – Liberal Democrats
• Mark Macdonald – Conservative
• Aisha Rashid – Liberal Democrats
• Colin Reynolds – Green
• Michael Paul Smith – Reform UK
• Graham William Waters – Conservative

Sawston

• Chloe Balhatchet – Green
• Mark Chater – Reform UK
• Daniel Clark – Green
• Gifford Frances Pamela Douglas – Conservative
• Graham Harrison – Reform UK
• Brian Milnes – Liberal Democrats
• Anand Pillai – Labour
• Ed Sanders – Liberal Democrats
• Ben Shelton – Conservative

Shelford

• Lee Denison – Green
• Miranda Fyfe – Green
• Nick Gay – Labour
• Farhan Hussain – Liberal Democrats
• John William Lamble – Reform UK
• Mark Andrew Lunn – Liberal Democrats
• Brigitta Naunton – Reform UK
• Angela Dorothy Niblett – Conservative
• Yvonne Nobis – Labour
• Rebecca Louis Shiret – Conservative

Swavesey

• Vivien Caroline Biggs – Liberal Democrats
• Phil Cohen – Green
• Sue Mary Ellington – Conservative
• Karl Lattion – Reform UK
• Barbara Joanna Mills – Labour

The Mordens

• Frankie Brook – Green
• Daniel James Greef – Labour
• Josh Johnson – Reform UK
• James Leopold Stuart – Liberal Democrats
• Heather Rose Williams – Conservative

Whittlesford

• Sophi Berridge – Green
• Clare Elizabeth Downie – Labour
• Claire Hill – Reform UK
• Sarah Louise Vowler – Liberal Democrats
• Richard Lynn Williams – Conservative

Cambridge City Council

In Cambridge, there will be one councillor elected to 13 wards. There will then be two councillors elected in Trumpington following the resignation of Nadya Lokhmotova.

Abbey

• Anne Roe Rosemary Ansell – Liberal Democrats
• Tommy Brace – ReforM UK
• Simon Brignell – Communist Party of Britain
• Margaret Maria Cleminson – Green
• Ruaidhri O’Donnell – Labour
• David Philip Smith – Conservative

Arbury

• Robert Boorman – Conservative
• Will Burrows – Reform UK
• Carmen Sefira Davison – Green
• Jocelynne Scutt – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Fionna Tod – Liberal Democrats

Castle

• Khalid Abu-Tayyem – Independent
• Carol Bedson – Reform UK
• Luke Patterson – Liberal Democrats
• Dace Ruklisa – Conservative
• Alex Sage – Green
• Simon Smith – Labour

Cherry Hinton

• Eric William Barrett-Payton – Conservative
• Anusha Iyer – Green
• Russ McPherson – Labour
• Mike Nicolson – Reform UK
• Ahmad Rushdhi – Liberal Democrats

Coleridge

• Tim Brunton – Liberal Democrats
• Steve Burdett – Reform UK
• Louise Sarah Nicmanis – Green
• Anna Smith – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Mitchell Sam Worthington – Conservative

East Chesterton

• Jean-Ann Bartlett – Conservative
• Ania Bobrowska – Liberal Democrats
• William James Dry – Communist Party of Britain
• Isaac Groves – Green
• Sarah Haithcock – Labour
• Godfrey Orr – Reform UK
• Mark Wells – Reform UK

King’s Hedges

• Mahfuj Ahmed – Conservative
• Zarina Anwar – Independent
• Eleanor Cooke – Independent
• David Michael Creek – Liberal Democrats
• John McKay – Reform UK
• Daniel Quinn – Green
• Martin Andrew Smart – Labour

Market

• Edwin Kwaku Addo – Labour
• Katie Porrer – Liberal Democrats
• Alex Sefton-Tromans – Green
• Mark Wells – Reform UK
• Panda Xiong – Conservative

Newnham

• Katie Barron – Liberal Democrats
• David Carmona – Independent
• Sabina Harris-Hercules – Labour
• Lui Murton – Reform UK
• Poppy Simister-Thomas – Conservative
• Frances Eleanor Toye Scott – Green

Petersfield

• Luke Burrows – Reform UK
• Kathryn Fisher – Green
• Myfyr Cameron Holloway – Labour
• Sam Oliver – Liberal Democrats
• Paul Roper – Conservative

Queen Edith’s

• Maruf Ahmed – Labour
• Colin Bedson – Reform UK
• Alexander Magnus Burt – Conservative
• Mary Shayne Mitchell – Green
• Amanda Joan Taylor – Liberal Democrats

Romsey

• Rosy Greenless – Labour
• Rob Nelson – Conservative
• Charles John Walmsley – Liberal Democrats
• Andrew Watson – Reform UK
• Jacqui Whitmore – Green

Trumpington

• Michael Steven George – Conservative
• Edward Ekin Gokmen – Green
• Guy Greenway – Reform UK
• William John Grimwood – Liberal Democrats
• Olaf Hauk – Liberal Democrats
• John Michael Ionides – Conservative
• Samuel Lloyd – Reform UK
• Chloe Eva Mosonyi – Green
• Henry Shailer – Labour
• Carlos Toranzos – Labour and Co-operative Party

West Chesterton

• Charlotte Hannah Copley – Green
• Mike Harford – Conservative
• Geoff Leach – Reform UK
• Guy Mills – Liberal Democrats
• Nick Picton – Independent
• Richard Swift – Labour

Huntingdonshire District Council

Elections will take place in all wards across Huntingdonshire.

Alconbury

• Sarah Caine – Liberal Democrats
• Chip Colquhoun – Green
• Ian Derek Gardener – Conservative
• Joy Isaacs – Labour
• Roger Lane – Reform UK

Brampton

• Damilola Ademiniyi – Labour
• Hannah Charlotte Copley – Green
• Liam Paul Dewey-Beckett – Liberal Democrats
• Philip Makwana – Conservative
• Leslie Alex John Parren – Reform UK
• Malcolm Philip Ryman – Reform UK
• Fardous Siddique – Labour
• Bill Sinclair – Conservative
• Warren Smith – Liberal Democrats

Buckden

• Christopher John Bulow – Green
• Sean Calvin – Liberal Democrats
• Catherine Frances Grigg – Conservative
• Martin Andrew Hassall – Independent
• James McGregor Kerr – Labour
• Ian Richard Simmonds – Reform UK

Fenstanton

• Martin Paul Hewitt – Conservative
• Hayley Elizabeth Howatt – Reform UK
• Nick Sarkies – Liberal Democrats
• Danny Raymond Scott – Green

Godmanchester and Hemingford Abbots

• Rosemary Ann Armstrong – Conservative
• Kevin Anthony Barr – Conservative
• Sarah Joanne Conboy – Liberal Democrats
• Kieron Marriner – Reform UK
• Daniel Mayhew – Labour
• Brett Alistair Mickelburgh – Liberal Democrats
• Debbie Mickelburgh – Liberal Democrats
• Ambrose Ntuk – Labour
• Francis William Reid – Green
• Paula Jane Sparling – Conservative
• Stephen Ronald Spencer – Reform UK
• Mark Joseph Turley – Reform UK

Great Paxton

• Stephen Claffey – Liberal Democrats
• Malcolm John Gaylor – Reform UK
• Amanda Laurene Lower – Conservative
• Hollie-Ann Topliffe – Green

Great Staughton

• Stephen Cawley – Conservative
• Ann Christine Fryer – Reform UK
• Tony Hulme – Liberal Democrats
• Yavin Michael Owens – Labour
• Paul James Westerman – Green

Hemingford Grey and Houghton

• Kevin Ronald Bryant – Labour
• Graham Paul Bundy – Reform UK
• Jacqui Cook – Animal Welfare Party – People, Animals, Environment
• Adrian Hyde – Reform UK
• David Norman Keane – Conservative
• Anne Mary Meredith – Liberal Democrats
• Tamara Jasmine Page – green
• David John Priestman – Liberal Democrats
• Raymond Paul Andrew Simpson – Conservative

Holywell-cum-Needingworth

• John Colin Bleazard – Reform UK
• Laura Blows – Liberal Democrats
• Robin Carter – Liberal Democrats
• Paul James Hodgson-Jones – Conservative
• Bob Marsh – Reform UK
• Jon Neish – Conservative
• Phoebe Elizabeth Watts – Green
• Matthew Wetherfield – Labour

Huntingdon east

• Sergiu Ardelean – Reform UK
• Zara Louise Bobby Dolan-Ansary – Labour
• Tomin Geo – Conservative
• Seona Gunn-Kelly – Green
• Jo Harvey – Liberal Democrats
• David George Howard – Reform UK
• Nathan Hunt – Liberal Democrats
• George Frederick Michael Joyce – Conservative
• Rashid Mahmood – Labour

Huntingdon north

• Sophie Rose Feary – Conservative
• Leedo George – Conservative
• Ryan Grange – Green
• Michael Stuart Grice – Liberal Democrats
• David Henly – Reform UK
• Mike Humphrey – Liberal Democrats
• Georgie Hunt – Green
• Phillip Jones – Liberal Democrats
• Marion Kadewere – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Patrick Kadewere – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Steven Lancaster – Reform UK
• Keith Ivan Prentice – Conservative
• Lianne SImpson – Independent
• Mike Simpson – Reform UK
• Sam Wakeford – Labour

Kimbolton

• David Jonathan Blake – Reform UK
• James Roger Catmur – Liberal Democrats
• Jonathan Alexander Gray – Conservative
• Kelly Sophia Ramsbottom – Labour
• Julie Stark – Green

Ramsey

• Ash Austin – Independent
• Janet Boston – Labour
• Jeff Clarke – Conservative
• Ryan Coogan – Reform UK
• Steve Corney – Independent
• Adela Eva Costello – Conservative
• Gerard Augustin Crean – Liberal Democrats
• Clare Delderfield – Liberal Democrats
• Val Fendley – Independent
• Karan Maheshwari – Reform UK
• Zak Alex Martin – Conservative
• Anna Lisa Clenachan Pritchard – Green
• Howard Julian Tobias – Reform UK
• Graham Martin Wilson – Liberal Democrats

Sawtry

• Simon Bywater – Conservative
• Ross Ben Martin – Conservative
• Rick Rambridge – Reform UK
• Ian David Scales – Green
• Robin Neil Simpson – Labour
• Haydn Stevens – Reform UK
• Sarah Rose Wilson – Liberal Democrats
• Kerry York – Liberal Democrats

Somersham

• Edwards Charles Binns – Reform UK
• Keith James Brown – Liberal Democrats
• Kevin Hawkins – Labour
• Sarah Louise Hodgson-Jones – Conservative
• Jamie Troup – Green

St Neots east

• Lara Charlene Davenport-Ray – Green
• Stephen William Ferguson – Green
• Sally Patricia Guinee – Liberal Democrats
• Keith Harrison – Liberal Democrats
• Alan Ronald Hilton – Reform UK
• Gary Hyams – Conservative
• Rob Moores – Reform UK
• Angela Joyce Robertson – Conservative

St Neots Eatons

• Barry Sidney Banks – Independent
• Val Dajchin – Green
• Nigel Philip Eaton – Conservative
• Michael Peter Gilks – Labour
• Alan James Hunt – Liberal Democrats
• Jacquieline Priscilla Hunt – Liberal Democrats
• Andrew Rayner Jennings – Conservative
• Colin John Maslen – Reform UK
• Geoff Seeff – Liberal Democrats
• Nicholas Sharp – Green
• David John Smith – Reform UK
• Stewart Thornton – Reform UK
• Harry Phillip Vallance – Conservative
• Ellisa Westerman – Green
• Bev White – Party of Women

St Neots Priory park and Little Paxton

• Robert Edward Bralee – Green
• Barry Stephen Chapman – Independent
• Harriet Dolby – Conservative
• Pascal Christopher Darren Ferguson – Green
• John Keith Holmes – Green
• Carole Ann Innes – Liberal Democrats
• Randall Neil McDonald – Reform UK
• Steve O’Hara – Reform UK
• Tony Osborne – Reform UK
• Ganesh Sittampalam – Liberal Democrats
• Richard Lewis Tomlonson – Conservative
• Alfie Yorke – Conservative
• Mark David Young – Liberal Democrats

St Ives east

• Paul Bullen – Conservative
• Michael John Burke – Liberal Democrats
• Martin James Gill – Conservative
• Mandy Harrington – Reform UK
• Simon John Jordan – Liberal Democrats
• Shariqa Mokbul – Independent
• Louise Maria Newberry – Green
• Noah Sanderson – Reform UK
• Luke Viner – Labour and Co-operative Party

St Ives south

• Peter Andrew Brasher – Green
• Alex Bulat – Labour and Co-operative Party
• William Deacon – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Paul Kenneth Dickinson – Reform UK
• Natasha Fatio – Reform UK
• Cath Gleadow – Liberal Democrats
• Andrew William Riddell – Conservative
• Craig Thomas Smith – Conservative
• Nic Wells – Liberal Democrats

St Ives west

• Cheryl May Cannon – Conservative
• Patricia Ann Jordan – Liberal Democrats
• Julie Elizabeth Kerr – Independent
• Max Mulcrone – Reform UK
• Rose Sarah Williams – Green

St Neots Eynesbury

• Kenneth Billington – Conservative
• Camille Violet Etchart – Liberal Democrats
• Catherine James Goodman – Green
• Ricky James Ioannides – Reform UK
• Pavlos Kasdovasilis – Reform UK
• Julie Martin – Conservative
• Antonie McGowan – Liberal Democrats
• Tony Nelson – Reform UK
• Alexander Pushkarev – Conservative
• Deanna Seeff – Liberal Democrats
• Sam Smith – Independent
• Been Streeter-Strong – Independent
• Ian Pele Taylor – Independent
• Doug Terry – Independent

Stilton, Folksworth and Washingley

• Tim Alban – Conservative
• Marge Beuttell – Conservative
• Robert Bowden – Labour
• Sharon Elizabeth Brennan – Reform UK
• Eric Mark Darling – Reform UK
• Padrica Valerie Kennington – Liberal Democrats
• Amanda Charmaine Norton – Liberal Democrats
• Stasi Revel – Green

The Stukeleys

• Louise Ascroft – Liberal Democrats
• Ann Blackwell – Liberal Democrats
• Alan John Brugnoli – Conservative
• Val Cody – Reform UK
• Freya Cushman – Labour
• Judy Samantha Moore – Green
• Sikho Ndebele – Labour
• Phil Pearce – Conservative
• Tom Sanderson – Liberal Democrats
• Many Simmonds – Reform UK
• Sally Smith – Conservative
• Suzanna Williams – Reform UK

Warboys

• Anthony Thomas Bailly – Green
• Sharon Anne Docherty – Liberal Democrats
• Alan Garford – Reform UK
• Helen Mary Victoria Kewley – Liberal Democrats
• Charlotte Ann Lowe – Conservative
• Douglas Haig McIlwain – Conservative
• Iain Ramsbottom – Labour
• Sarah Smith – Reform UK
• John Nigel Wills – Green

Yaxley

• Justin Andrews – Conservative
• Michelle Britton – Labour
• Eric Richard Butler – Conservative
• Kieran James Edwards – Liberal Democrats
• James Thomas Francis – Reform UK
• Peter John Gammons – Reform UK
• Kev Gulson – Conservative
• Sally Howell – Liberal Democrats
• Max Jephtha – Green
• Christopher George Reeve – Reform UK
• Andrew Wood – Liberal Democrats

Peterborough City Council

Elections will take place for 18 wards in the Peterborough area. Here are the candidates running in each ward:

Bretton

• John Robert Bolton – Reform UK
• Susan Jane Glasgow – Labour
• David Kerry Narrainen – Green
• Scott Warren – Conservative
• Rohan Wilson – Liberal Democrats

Central

• Steve Cawley – Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
• Shaz Choudhary – Green
• Khurram Iqbal – Labour
• Jason Kerridge – Liberal Democrats
• Shahzadi Khan – Conservative
• Jeff Pitt – Reform UK

Dogsthorpe

• Pip Gardner – Green
• Mohammad Haseeb – Labour
• Ishfaq Hussain – Conservative
• Sandra Ringler – Liberal Democrats
• Petr Torak – Independent
• Bryan Andrew Tyler – Reform UK

East

• Ian Hardman – Liberal Democrats
• Sam Hemraj – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Aleem Miran – Conservative
• Nassim Rhaiem – Green
• Dave West – Reform UK

Eye, Thorney and Newborough

• Anthony Church – Liberal Democrats
• Sue Farr – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Layton Mark Mills – Reform UK
• John Peach – Conservative
• Adam Warr – Green

Fletton and Stanground

• Christian Hogg – Liberal Democrats
• Andrew Johnson – Labour
• Jon Lloyd – Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
• Maria Pinotes – Reform UK
• Neil Seekings – Conservative

Fletton and Woodston

• Andy Coles – Conservative
• Steve Harknett – Independent
• Ed Murphy – Green
• Yvonne Claire Scarrott – Reform UK
• Harvey Woodhouse – Labour

Gunthorpe

• Muhammad Ahmed – Labour
• Andrew Bond – Liberal Democrats
• Andrew Macfarlaine – Conservative
• Tom Rogers – Reform UK

Hampton Vale

• Marco Cereste – Conservative
• Steve Newson – Reform UK
• Toqeer Ahmed Sethi – Green
• Simon Turp – Labour
• Paul Wiggin – Liberal Democrats

Hargate and Hempsted

• Hamza Jarral – Labour
• Simon Christopher Jones – Reform UK
• Katherine Sharp – Green
• Vishal Vichare – Conservative
• Neil Walton – Liberal Democrats

North

• Javed Akhtar – Conservative
• Noreen Bi – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Mohammed Munir – Green
• Keith Sharp – Reform UK

Orton Longueville

• Olu Akinyele – Labour
• Ruwan Madugalla – Conservative
• Jonathan Orchard – Green
• Nick Penniall – Independent
• Philip Anthony Whitworth – Reform UK

Orton Waterville

• Stephen James Arnott – Reform UK
• Steve Bailey – Labour
• Alex Bowerbanks – Green
• Sanjaya Dodamgoda – Conservative
• Ray Knight – Independent

Park

• Murtaza Ahmed-Munir – Conservative
• Reza Behravan – Reform UK
• Tassadaq Hussain – Green
• Fiona Radic – Independent
• Beki Sellick – Liberal Democrats
• Saif Ali Yasin – Labour

Paston and Walton

• Iva Banyalieva – Conservative
• Ryan Gallagher – Reform UK
• Rob Fetch – Your Party
• Adif Shaheed – Liberal Democrats
• Mohammed Yasin – Labour

Ravensthorpe

• Shokat Ali – Green
• Matthew Clements – Labour
• Gul Nawaz – Conservative
• Ashli Philip – Reform UK
• Nick Sandford – Liberal Democrats

Stanground South

• Julian Bray – Independent
• Janet Elizabeth Brown – Conservative
• June Mary Bull – Peterborough First Independent
• Charles Rhys Coster – Green
• Andrew Deacon – Labour
• Peter David Reeve – Reform UK
• Miriam Sellick – Liberal Democrats

Werrington

• Ruta Dalton – Conservative
• Bradley Dilloway – Labour
• Sarah Areatha – Peterborough First Werrington Independent
• Chris Watson – Reform UK

Wittering parish

• John William Bradshaw
• Susie Ellen Briers
• Brian Day
• Jo Gault
• Dave Hughes
• Kate Jackson
• Liz Putterhill
• Russell John Archer Pye
• Iain Wilkinson
• Emma Lindsey Wilson-Jones