BOUNDARY changes mean every seat on Pendle Council is up for grabs on May 2 -- the first time the whole council has been elected since 1976.

In Pendle, which has a slim Labour majority, the three main parties are equally represented in nearly all the wards. There are three Independent candidates and two Socialist Alliance.

Former mayors Couns Ian and Gill Gilhespy (Lib Dem) are both standing down from Horsfield Ward, Colne; Coun Tim Ormrod (Labour), also a county councillor, is standing down in Waterside, Colne; Lib Dem Lord Tony Greaves is seeking election in Walverden, and Coun Roy Clarkson, Tory leader, is also retiring.

BARROWFORD: (Three seats) Anthony Beckett (Con)*; Kay Coates (Lib Dem); Linda Crossley (Con)*; Jonathan Eyre (Con); Anthony Hargreaves (Lab); Susan Nike (Lab); Robert Oliver (Lab); Michael Simpson (Lib Dem); Allan Vickerman (Lib Dem)*.

BLACKO AND HIGHERFORD: (One seat) Christel Abbiss (Lib Dem); Shelagh Derwent (Con)*; Helen Ingham (Lab).

BOULSWORTH: (Three seats) Josephine Belbin (Lib Dem)*; Michael Calvert (Con); Alan Davies (Lib Dem)*; James Farnell (Con); Deborah Gray (Lab); Robert Parsons (Lab); David Robertson (Lib Dem)*; Harold Ryder (Con); Martin Wilson (Lab).

BRADLEY: (Three seats) Frank Chadwick (Con); Frederick Hartley (Lab)* ; Mohammed Iqbal (Lab)*; Eric King ( Con); Mohammed Munir (Lib Dem); Edward Myers (Con); Mohammed Nasim (Lab); Sonia Robinson (Lib Dem); David Stopforth (Lib Dem).

BRIERFIELD: (Three seats) Pauline Allen (Lab)*; Hussnain Ashraf (Con); Iain Carlos (Lib Dem); Frank Clifford (Lab)*; Abdul Jabbar (Lab); Peter Jackson (Con); William Lawrence (Lib Dem); Khalid Mehmood (Lib Dem); Francis Wren (Con).

CLOVER HILL: (Three seats) Neil Akrigg (Lab)*; Mohammed Ansar (Lab)*; Audrey Emmott (Con); David Foster (Lib Dem); Ann Jackson (Con); Nadeem Malik (Lib Dem); Kathleen Shore (Lib Dem)*; Marian Taylor (Con); Colin Waite (Lab)*.

COATES: (Three seats) Marjorie Adams (Lib Dem)*; Margaret Bell (Lib Dem)*; Allan Buck (Lib Dem); Paul Hanson (Lab); George Lofthouse (Con); Joyce Myers (Con); David Poole (Con).

CRAVEN: (Three seats) Barbara Davison (Con); Beverley Harrison (Con); Keith Harrison (Con); Marlene Hill-Crane (Lib Dem); Frank Neal (Lab)*; Mary Norcross (Lib Dem)*; David Whipp (Lib Dem)*.

EARBY: (Three seats) Rosemary Carroll (Con)*; Claire Day (Lib Dem); Doris Haigh (Lib Dem)*; Tim Haigh (Lib Dem); Morris Horsfield (Con); William Skinner (Lab); Christopher Tennant (Con)*; Ruth Wilkinson (Lab).

FOULRIDGE: (One seat) Carol Belshaw (Con)*; Michelle Birtwell (Lib Dem); Jillian Smith (Lab).

HIGHAM AND PENDLESIDE: (One seat) John Nutter (Con); Sheila Wicks (Lab)

HORSFIELD: (Three seats) Paul Broughton (Lab); Sharon Davies (Lib Dem); Keith Hutson (Lab); David Johns (Lab); Ann Kerrigan (Lib Dem); Dorothy Lord (Lib Dem)*; Donald Myers (Con); Peter Nowland (Indep); Janet Riley (Con); Alexandra Thompson (Con).

MARSDEN: (Two seats) Leonard Atkinson (Indep); David French (Lib Dem); Michael Landriau (Con); Victoria Landriau (Con); Dorothy Ormrod (Lab)*; Gary Rowland (Lab)*; Doris Stanworth (Lib Dem).

OLD LAUND BOOTH: (One seat) Clive Bevan (Con); John David (Lib Dem)*.

REEDLEY: (Three seats) Robert Allen (Lab); Tonia Barton (Con)*; Willie Clegg (Con); Victoria Greaves (Lib Dem); Mohammed Hanif (Lab); Anthony Martin (Lab); Pauline McCormick (Con)*; Frances Myers (Lib Dem); Alison Whipp (Lib Dem).

SOUTHFIELD: (Three seats) Rukhsar Ahmed (Lib Dem); Azhar Ali (Lab)*; Mohammed Ashraf (Lib Dem); Sheena Dunn (Lab)*; David Geddes (Indep); Mohammad Latif (Lab)*; Jack Marshall (Con); Javed Nasim (Con); Martin Thornton (Lib Dem); Peter Wildman (Con).

VIVARY BRIDGE: (Three seats) Frank Allanson (Lab); Kevin Bean (Socialist Alliance); Smith Benson (Con); Philip Butterworth (Lib Dem); David Clegg (Lib Dem)*; David Foat (Lab); Robert Jackson (Lib Dem); Ian Porter (Con); Geoffrey Riley (Con); David Whalley (Lab)*.

WALVERDEN: (Two seats) George Adam (Lab)*; Qadeer Ahmed (Lib Dem); Anthony Greaves (Lib Dem); Barbara King (Con); Judith Robinson (Lab)*; Ann Tattersall (Con).

WATERSIDE (Three seats): Anne Doult (Lab); Eric Jackson (Con); Richard MacSween (Socialist Alliance); Adrian Mitchell (Con); Ann Moulton (Lab); Ian Robinson (Lib Dem); Edwina Sargeant (Lib Dem)*; Adrian Statham (Lib Dem); Ian Tweedie (Lab)*; Richard Wood (Con).

WHITEFIELD: (Two seats) Ijaz Ahmed (Con); Mahboob Ahmed (Lib Dem); Michelle Ainsworth (Con); Mohammad Arshad (Lab); Asjad Mahmood (Lab); Abdul Malik (Lib).

*Denotes retiring councillor.