The candidates have been announced for the General Election on Thursday, July 4, with all 10 sitting MPsin Bristol, South Gloucestershire, North Somerset and North East Somerset hoping to defend their seats. Labour currently holds the five Bristol constituencies, including newly created Bristol North East where the party’s nominee, Damien Egan, is on the ballot sheet having ousted the Conservatives at a by-election in February for Kingswood, which no longer exists because of boundary changes.
Tory incumbents are seeking to be reelected in the other five, including ex-government minister Jacob Rees-Mogg who is expected to face a close race against Labour’s current West of England mayor and former Westminster frontbencher Dan Norris. The Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats and Greens are fielding candidates for every seat in the region.
Reform UK is contesting all but one, the Social Democratic Party has four hopefuls, there are four independents, and one apiece for the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition, Monster Raving Loony Party, whose nominee is named Barmy Brunch, the Workers Party, which is led by George Galloway, and the Party of Women, represented in Bristol Central by activist Kellie-Jay Keen, aka Posie Parker.
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Here is the full list of the 61 candidates:
(* indicates sitting MP. ** indicates sitting MP for the former Kingswood constituency.)
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Bristol Central
Robert Clarke - Reform UK
Nicholas Coombes - Lib Dem
* Thangam Debbonaire - Labour
Carla Denyer - Green
Kellie-Jay Keen (aka Posie Parker) - Party of Women
Samuel Williams - Conservative
Bristol East
Wael Arafat - Independent
Dan Conaghan - Conservative
Claire Dunnage - Social Democratic
* Kerry McCarthy - Labour
Farooq Siddique - Independent
Ani Stafford-Townsend - Green
Tony Sutcliffe - Lib Dem
Bristol North East
Asif Ali - Independent
** Damien Egan - Labour
Lorraine Francis - Green
Louise Harris - Lib Dem
Rose Hulse - Conservative
Anthony New - Reform UK
Dan Smart - Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
Tommy Trueman - Social Democratic
Bristol North West
Caroline Gooch - Lib Dem
* Darren Jones - Labour
Scarlett O’Connor - Reform UK
Mary Page - Green
Laura Saunders - Conservative
Ben Smith - Social Democratic
Bristol South
Jai Breitnauer - Green
Liz Brennan - Conservative
Andrew Brown - Lib Dem
Neil Norton - Social Democratic
* Karin Smyth - Labour
Richard Visick - Reform UK
Filton & Bradley Stoke
Benet Allen - Lib Dem
Stephen Burge - Reform UK
Claire Hazelgrove - Labour
* Jack Lopresti - Conservative
James Nelson - Green
Thornbury & Yate
Andrew Banwell - Reform UK
* Luke Hall - Conservative
Alexandra Jenner-Fust - Green
Rob Logan - Labour
Claire Young - Lib Dem
North East Somerset & Hanham
Barmy Brunch - Monster Raving Loony
Edmund Cannon - Green
Nicholas Hales - Independent
Paul MacDonnell - Reform UK
Dan Norris - Labour
* Jacob Rees-Mogg - Conservative
Dine Romero - Lib Dem
North Somerset
Sadik Al-Hassan - Labour
Suneil Basu - Workers Party
Ash Cartman - Lib Dem
* Liam Fox - Conservative
Alexander Kokkinoftas - Reform UK
Oscar Livesey-Lodwick - Green
Weston-super-Mare
Dan Aldridge - Labour
Thomas Daw - Green
Patrick Keating - Lib Dem
Richard Pearse - Reform UK
* John Penrose - Conservative
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