The deadline for registering to vote in the upcoming Vale of Glamorgan local election ends on April 14.

A total of 54 councillors will be elected across 24 wards in this election.

The council is currently made up of 15 Conservative councillors, 14 Labour councillors, four Plaid Cymru councillors, eight Vale Independent councillors, four Llantwit First councillors and two Independent councillors.

A full list of candidates was published on April 6.

Candidates for Penarth: 2022

St Augustines

1.    Thomas Geoffrey Blenkinsop – Green Party

2.    Rhodri Davies – Plaid Cymru

3.    Christine Glossop – Green Party

4.    Matthew Hutchinson – Plaid Cymru

5.    Elliot Penn – Welsh Labour

6.    Sian Rees – Plaid Cymru

7.    Sivaruby (Ruba) Sivagnanam – Welsh Labour

8.    Anthony David Slaughter – Green Party

9.    Robin Jonathan Smith – Welsh Conservative Party

10. Rod Thomas – Welsh Conservative Party

11. Neil Christopher Thomas – Welsh Labour

12. Jeff Tree – Welsh Conservative Party

Cornerswell

1.    Jemma Louise Angove – Independent

2.    Rhiannon Birch – Welsh Labour

3.    Ian Buckley – Welsh Labour

4.    Richard Stewart Gow – Welsh Conservative Party

5.    Chris Sharp – Welsh Conservative Party

6.    David Wilton – Plaid Cymru

Stanwell

1.    Lis Burnett – Welsh Labour

2.    Steve Morgan – Welsh Conservative Party

3.    Anthony John Sawyer – Welsh Conservative Party

4.    Mark Robert Wilson – Welsh Labour

Plymouth

1.    Richard Cox – Welsh Labour

2.    Anthony Monroe Ernest – Welsh Conservative Party

3.    Ben Gray – Independent

4.    Kathryn McCaffer – Independent

5.    Adrian Roper – Plaid Cymru

6.    Rhys Thomas – Welsh Conservative Party

7.    Alex Wilson – Welsh Liberal Democrats

Click here to register for the local elections on May 5.

The postal vote deadline is 17:00 on Tuesday, April 19.

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