Liberal Democrat Prospective Parliamentary Candidates
Here’s the list of the Liberal Democrat Prospective Parliamentary Candidates (PPCs) for the general election who have been publicly announced so far. If you’d like to help them, a great way to start is by joining the party or by pledging to vote Liberal Democrat.
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Liberal Democrat PPCs A-D
- Aberafan Maesteg: Justin Griffiths
- Aberdeen North: Desmond Bouse
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East: Ian Bailey
- Aldershot: Paul Harris
- Aldridge-Brownhills: Ian Garrett
- Altrincham and Sale West: Jane Brophy
- Alyn and Deeside: Richard Marbrow
- Amber Valley: Kate Smith
- Angus and Perthshire Glens: Claire McLaren
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber: Alan Reid
- Arundel and South Downs: Richard Allen
- Ashton-under-Lyne: Dominic Hardwick
- Aylesbury: Steve Lambert
- Banbury: Liz Adams
- Bangor Aberconwy: Rachael Roberts
- Barking: Charley Hasted
- Barnsley North: Penny Baker
- Barnsley South: Simon Clement-Jones
- Barrow and Furness: Adrian Waite
- Basildon and Billericay: Edward Sainsbury
- Basingstoke: Richard Whelan
- Bassetlaw: Helen Tamblyn-Saville
- Bath: Wera Hobhouse
- Bathgate and Linlithgow: Sally Pattle
- Battersea: Francis Chubb
- Beaconsfield: Anna Crabtree
- Beckenham and Penge: Chloe-Jane Ross
- Bedford: Henry Vann
- Bermondsey and Old Southwark: Rachel Bentley
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk: Ray Georgeson
- Bethnal Green and Stepney: Rabina Khan
- Beverley and Holderness: Denis Healy
- Bexhill and Battle: Becky Jones
- Bexleyheath and Crayford: David McBride
- Bicester and Woodstock: Calum Miller
- Birkenhead: Stuart Kelly
- Birmingham Edgbaston: Colin Green
- Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley: Izzy Knowles
- Birmingham Ladywood: Lee Dargue
- Birmingham Yardley: Roger Harmer
- Bishop Auckland: Helen Cross
- Blackburn: Adam Waller-Slack
- Blackley and Middleton South: Iain Donaldson
- Blackpool North and Fleetwood: Bill Greene
- Blackpool South: Andy Cregan
- Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney: Jackie Charlton
- Blaydon and Consett: Vicky Anderson
- Bognor Regis and Littlehampton: Henry Jones
- Bolton North East: Rebecca Forrest
- Bolton South and Walkden: Gemma-Jane Bowker
- Bolton West: Donald McIntosh
- Bootle: John Gibson
- Bournemouth East: Jon Nicholas
- Bournemouth West: Jeff Hanna
- Bracknell: Katie Mansfield
- Braintree: Kieron Franks
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe: David Chadwick
- Brent East: Jonny Singh
- Brentford and Isleworth: Kuldev Sehra
- Brent West: Paul Lorber
- Brentwood and Ongar: David Kendall
- Bridgend: Claire Waller
- Bridgwater: Claire Sully
- Bridlington and The Wolds: Jayne Phoenix
- Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven: Stewart Stone
- Brighton Pavilion: Ashley Ridley
- Bristol Central: Nicholas Coombes
- Bristol East: Tony Sutcliffe
- Bristol North East: Louise Harris
- Bristol North West: Caroline Gooch
- Bristol South: Andrew Brown
- Broadland and Fakenham: Leyla Hannbeck
- Bromley and Biggin Hill: Julie Ireland
- Bromsgrove: David Nicholl
- Broxbourne: Nicholas Belfitt
- Broxtowe: James Collis
- Buckingham and Bletchley: Dominic Dyer
- Burnley: Gordon Birtwistle
- Bury North: Mark Alcock
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket: Peter McDonald
- Bury South: Andrew Page
- Caerfyrddin: Nick Beckett
- Caerphilly: Steve Aicheler
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross: Jamie Stone
- Calder Valley: Donal O’Hanlon
- Camborne and Redruth: Thalia Marrington
- Cambridge: Cheney Payne
- Canterbury: Russ Timpson
- Cardiff East: Rodney Berman
- Cardiff North: Irfan Latif
- Cardiff South and Penarth: Alex Wilson
- Cardiff West: Manda Rigby
- Carlisle: Brian Wernham
- Carshalton and Wallington: Bobby Dean
- Central Devon: Mark Wooding
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich: Brett Mickelburgh
- Ceredigion Preseli: Mark Williams
- Chatham and Aylesford: Nick Chan
- Cheadle: Tom Morrison
- Chelmsford: Marie Goldman
- Chelsea and Fulham: Blaise Baquiche
- Cheltenham: Max Wilkinson
- Chesham and Amersham: Sarah Green
- Chesterfield: Ian Barfield
- Chester North and Neston: Stephen Gribbon
- Chester South and Eddisbury: Rob Herd
- Chichester: Jess Brown-Fuller
- Chingford and Woodford Green: Josh Hadley
- Chippenham: Sarah Gibson
- Chorley: Speaker’s constituency
- Christchurch: Mike Cox
- Cities of London and Westminster: Edward Lucas
- City of Durham: Mark Wilkes
- Clacton: Matthew Bensilum
- Clapham and Brixton Hill: Ben Curtis
- Clwyd East: Alec Dauncey
- Clwyd North: David Wilkins
- Colchester: Martin Goss
- Colne Valley: Katharine Macy
- Congleton: Paul Duffy
- Corby and East Northamptonshire: Chris Lofts
- Coventry North West: Tom Holder
- Coventry South: Stephen Richmond
- Cramlington and Killingworth: Thom Campion
- Crewe and Nantwich: Matt Theobald
- Croydon East: Andrew Pelling
- Croydon South: Richard Howard
- Croydon West: Jahir Hussain
- Darlington: Simon Thorley
- Dartford: Kyle Marsh
- Daventry: Jonathan Harris
- Derbyshire Dales: Robert Court
- Derby South: Joe Naitta
- Didcot and Wantage: Olly Glover
- Doncaster Central: Greg Ruback
- Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme: Nicola Turner
- Doncaster North: Jonathan Harston
- Dorking and Horley: Chris Coghlan
- Dover and Deal: Penelope James
- Droitwich and Evesham: Oliver Walker
- Dudley: Ian Flynn
- Dulwich and West Norwood: Donna Harris
- Dumfries and Galloway: Iain McDonald
- Dunfermline and Dollar: Lauren Buchanan-Quigley
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard: Emma Holland-Lindsay
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd: Phoebe Jenkins
Liberal Democrat PPCs E-H
- Ealing Central and Acton: Alastair Mitton
- Ealing North: Craig O’Donnell
- Ealing Southall: Tariq Mahmood
- Earley and Woodley: Tahir Maher
- Eastbourne: Josh Babarinde
- East Grinstead and Uckfield: Benedict Dempsey
- East Hampshire: Dominic Martin
- Easington: Tony Ferguson
- Eastleigh: Liz Jarvis
- East Surrey: Claire Malcomson
- East Wiltshire: David Kinnaird
- East Worthing and Shoreham: David Batchelor
- East Yorkshire: Dale Needham
- Edinburgh North and Leith: Mike Andersen
- Edinburgh South: Andy Williamson
- Edinburgh South West: Bruce Wilson
- Edinburgh West: Christine Jardine
- Edmonton and Winchmore Hill: Tim Martin
- Ellesmere Port and Bromborough: Chris Carubia
- Eltham and Chislehurst: Ulysse Abbate
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire: Charlotte Cane
- Enfield North: Gaetano Russo
- Epping Forest: Jon Whitehouse
- Epsom and Ewell: Helen Maguire
- Erewash: James Archer
- Erith and Thamesmead: Pierce Chalmers
- Esher and Walton: Monica Harding
- Exeter: Will Aczel
- Exmouth and Exeter East: Paul Arnott
- Fareham and Waterlooville: Paul Gray
- Farnham and Bordon: Khalil Yousuf
- Faversham and Mid Kent: Hannah Perkin
- Feltham and Heston: Dhruv Sengupta
- Filton and Bradley Stoke: Benet Allen
- Finchley and Golders Green: Sarah Hoyle
- Folkestone and Hythe: Larry Ngan
- Forest of Dean: James Joyce
- Frome and East Somerset: Anna Sabine
- Fylde: Mark Jewell
- Gateshead Central and Whickham: Ron Beadle
- Gedling: Tad Jones
- Gillingham and Rainham: Stuart Bourne
- Glastonbury and Somerton: Sarah Dyke
- Gloucester: Rebecca Trimnell
- Godalming and Ash: Paul Follows
- Gordon and Buchan: Conrad Wood
- Gorton and Denton: John Reid
- Gower: Franck Banza
- Gravesham: Ukonu Obasi
- Greenwich and Woolwich: Chris Annous
- Guildford: Zoe Franklin
- Hackney North and Stoke Newington: Rebecca Jones
- Hackney South and Shoreditch: Theodore Roos
- Halifax: Samuel Jackson
- Halesowen: Ryan Priest
- Haltemprice and Howden: Linda Johnson
- Hamble Valley: Prad Bains
- Hammersmith and Chiswick: Eraj Rostaqi
- Hampstead and Highgate: Scott Emery
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston: Phil Knowles
- Harlow: Riad Mannan
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted: Victoria Collins
- Harrogate and Knaresborough: Tom Gordon
- Harrow East: Reeten Banerji
- Harrow West: Chris Noyce
- Harwich and North Essex: Natalie Sommers
- Hastings and Rye: Guy Harris
- Havant: Gayathri Sathyanath
- Hayes and Harlington: Alex Cunliffe
- Hazel Grove: Lisa Smart
- Hemel Hempstead: Sammy Barry-Mears
- Hendon: Clareine Enderby
- Henley and Thame: Freddie Van Mierlo
- Hereford and South Herefordshire: Dan Powell
- Herne Bay and Sandwich: Angie Curwen
- Hertford and Stortford: Helen Campbell
- Hertsmere: Emma Matanle
- Hexham: Nick Cott
- Heywood and Middleton North: Tom Shaw
- Hinckley and Bosworth: Michael Mullaney
- Hitchin: Chris Lucas
- Holborn and St Pancras: Charlie Clinton
- Honiton and Sidmouth: Richard Foord
- Hornsey and Friern Barnet: Dawn Barnes
- Horsham: John Milne
- Houghton and Sunderland South: Paul Edgeworth
- Hove and Portslade: Michael Wang
- Huntingdon: Mark Argent
- Hyndburn: Beth Waller-Slack
Liberal Democrat PPCs I-L
- Ilford North: Fraser Coppin
- Ilford South: Richard Clare
- Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West: Ross Stalker
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-Shire: Angus MacDonald
- Ipswich: James Sandbach
- Isle of Wight East: Michael Lilley
- Isle of Wight West: Nick Stuart
- Islington North: Vikas Aggarwal
- Islington South and Finsbury: Terry Stacy
- Jarrow and Gateshead East: James Rickelton
- Kenilworth and Southam: Jenny Wilkinson
- Kensington and Bayswater: William Houngbo
- Kettering: Sarah Ryan
- Kingston and Surbiton: Ed Davey
- Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice: Linda Johnson
- Kingswinford and South Staffordshire: Gully Bansal
- Knowsley: Kate Tipton
- Lancaster and Wyre: Matt Severn
- Leeds Central and Headingley: Chris Howley
- Leeds East: Tobie Abel
- Leeds North East: Gary Busuttil
- Leeds North West: Ryk Downes
- Leeds South: George Sykes
- Leeds South West and Morley: Michael Fox
- Leicester East: Zuffar Haq
- Leicester South: Carol Weaver
- Leicester West: Benjamin Feist
- Leigh and Atherton: Stuart Thomas
- Lewes: James MacCleary
- Lewisham East: Callum James Littlemore
- Lewisham North: Jean Branch
- Lewisham West and East Dulwich: Josh Matthews
- Leyton and Wanstead: Tara Copeland
- Lichfield: Paul Ray
- Lincoln: Clare Smalley
- Liverpool Garston: John Hyland
- Liverpool Riverside: Rebecca Turner
- Liverpool Walton: Sean Cadwallader
- Liverpool Wavertree: Rob McAlister-Bell
- Liverpool West Derby: Kayleigh Halpin
- Livingston: Caron Lindsay
- Llanelli: Chris Passmore
- Loughborough: Ian Sharpe
- Louth and Horncastle: Ross Pepper
- Lowestoft: Adam Robertson
- Luton South and South Bedfordshire: Dominic Griffiths
Liberal Democrat PPCs M-P
- Macclesfield: Neil Christian
- Maidenhead: Joshua Reynolds
- Maidstone and Malling: David Naghi
- Makerfield: John Skipworth
- Manchester Central: Chris Northwood
- Manchester Rusholme: Seb Bate
- Manchester Withington: Richard Kilpatrick
- Melksham and Devizes: Brian Mathew
- Melton and Syston: Andy Konieczo
- Meriden and Solihull East: Sunny Virk
- Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare: Jade Smith
- Mid and South Pembrokeshire: Alistair Cameron
- Mid Bedfordshire: Stuart Roberts
- Mid Buckinghamshire: Anja Schaefer
- Mid Cheshire: Jack Price-Harbach
- Mid Derbyshire: Barry Holliday
- Middlesbrough and Thornaby East: Mohammed Waqas
- Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland: Jemma Joy
- Mid Dorset and North Poole: Vikki Slade
- Mid Dunbartonshire: Susan Murray
- Midlothian: Ross Laird
- Mid Sussex: Alison Bennett
- Milton Keynes Central: James Cox
- Milton Keynes North: Clare Tevlin
- Mitcham and Morden: Jenifer Gould
- Monmouthshire: Bill Powell
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndŵr: Glyn Preston
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey: Neil Alexander
- Morecambe and Lunesdale: Peter Jackson
- Na h-Eileanan an lar: Jamie Dobson
- Neath and Swansea East: Helen Clarke
- Newark: David Watts
- Newbury: Lee Dillon
- Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West: Ali Avaei
- Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend: Mark Ridyard
- Newcastle upon Tyne North: Aidan King
- New Forest East: Caroline Rackham
- New Forest West: Jack Davies
- Newport East: John Miller
- Newport West and Islwyn: Mike Hamilton
- Newton Abbot: Martin Wrigley
- Normanton and Hemsworth: Craig Dobson
- Northampton North: Chris Leggett
- Northampton South: Jill Hope
- North Bedfordshire: Joanna Szaub-Newton
- North Cornwall: Ben Maguire
- North Cotswolds: Paul Hodgkinson
- North Devon: Ian Roome
- North Dorset: Gary Jackson
- North East Cambridgeshire: David Chalmers
- North East Derbyshire: Ross Shipman
- North East Fife: Wendy Chamberlain
- North East Hampshire: Alex Brewer
- North East Hertfordshire: Ruth Brown
- North East Somerset and Hanham: Dine Romero
- North Herefordshire: Cat Hornsey
- North Norfolk: Steffan Aquarone
- North Northumberland: Natalie Younes
- North Shropshire: Helen Morgan
- North Somerset: Ashley Cartman
- North West Essex: Smita Rajesh
- North West Hampshire: Luigi Gregori
- North West Norfolk: Rob Colwell
- Norwich North: Chika Akinwale
- Norwich South: Sean Bennett
- Nottingham East: Anita Prabhakar
- Nottingham South: Christina Morgan-Danvers
- Old Bexley and Sidcup: Adrian Hyyrylainen-Trett
- Oldham East and Saddleworth: Sam Al-Hamdani
- Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton: Hannah Kitching
- Orkney and Shetland: Alistair Carmichael
- Orpington: Graeme Casey
- Ossett and Denby Dale: James Wilkinson
- Oxford East: Theo Jupp
- Oxford West and Abingdon: Layla Moran
- Paisley and Renfrewshire North: Grant Toghill
- Paisley and Renfrewshire South: Jack Clark
- Peckham: David Watson
- Pendle and Clitheroe: Mark Christie
- Penistone and Stocksbridge: Robert Reiss
- Penrith and Solway: Julia Aglionby
- Perth and Kinross-shire: Amanda Clark
- Plymouth Moor View: Sarah Martin
- Plymouth Sutton and Devonport: Holly Greenbury-Pullen
- Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley: Jamie Needle
- Pontypridd: David Mathias
- Poole: Oliver Walters
- Poplar and Limehouse: Richard Flowers
- Portsmouth North: Simon Dodd
- Portsmouth South: Charlie Murphy
- Preston: Neil Darby
- Putney: Kieren McCarthy
Liberal Democrat PPCs Q-T
- Queen’s Park and Maida Vale: Helen Baxter
- Reading Central: Henry Wright
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire: Helen Belcher
- Redcar: Chris Jones
- Redditch: Andrew Fieldsend-Roxborough
- Reigate: Mark Johnston
- Rhondda and Ogmore: Gerald Francis
- Ribble Valley: John Potter
- Richmond Park: Sarah Olney
- Richmond and Northallerton: Daniel Callaghan
- Rochdale: Andy Kelly
- Rochester and Strood: Graham Colley
- Romsey and Southampton North: Geoff Cooper
- Rossendale and Darwen: Rowan Fitton
- Rother Valley: Colin Taylor
- Rugby: Richard Dickson
- Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner: Jonathan Banks
- Runcorn and Helsby: Chris Rowe
- Runnymede and Weybridge: Ellen Nicholson
- Rutherglen: Gloria Adebo
- Rutland and Stamford: James Moore
- St Albans: Daisy Cooper
- St Austell and Newquay: Joanna Kenny
- St Helens North: Pat Moloney
- St Helens South and Whiston: Brian Spencer
- St Ives: Andrew George
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire: Ian Sollom
- Salford: Jake Austin
- Salisbury: Victoria Charleston
- Sefton Central: Gareth Lloyd-Johnson
- Sevenoaks: Richard Streatfeild
- Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough: Will Sapwell
- Sheffield Hallam: Shaffaq Mohammed
- Sheffield South East: Sophie Thornton
- Shrewsbury: Alex Wagner
- Sittingbourne and Sheppey: Frances Kneller
- Skipton and Ripon: Andrew Murday
- Sleaford and North Hykeham: Matthew Winnington
- Slough: Chelsea Whyte
- Solihull West and Shirley: Ade Adeyemo
- Southampton Test: Thomas Gravatt
- South Basildon and East Thurrock: David Thomas
- South Cambridgeshire: Pippa Heylings
- South Cotswolds: Roz Savage
- South Derbyshire: Lucy Care
- South Devon: Caroline Voaden
- South Dorset: Matt Bell
- South East Cornwall: Colin Martin
- Southend East and Rochford: James Allen
- Southend West and Leigh: Stephen Cummins
- Southgate and Wood Green: Lauren Fulbright
- South Holland and The Deepings: Jack Braginton
- South Leicestershire: Paul Hartshorn
- South Norfolk: Chris Brown
- South Northamptonshire: Stewart Tolley
- Southport: Erin Harvey
- South Ribble: Angela Turner
- South Shropshire: Matthew Green
- South Suffolk: Tom Bartleet
- South West Devon: Julian Brazil
- South West Hertfordshire: Sally Symington
- South West Norfolk: Josie Ratcliffe
- South West Wiltshire: Bret Palmer
- Spelthorne: Harry Boparai
- Spen Valley: Alison Brelsford
- Stalybridge and Hyde: Jamie Dwan
- Stevenage: Lisa Nash
- Stirling and Strathallan: Hamish Taylor
- Stockport: Wendy Meikle
- Stoke on Trent South: Alec Sandiford
- Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge: Sam Harper-Wallis
- Stourbridge: Chris Bramall
- Stratford and Bow: Janey Little
- Stratford-on-Avon: Manuela Perteghella
- Streatham and Croydon North: Claire Bonham
- Stretford and Urmston: Mark Clayton
- Stroud: George James
- Suffolk Coastal: Julia Ewart
- Sunderland Central: Niall Hodson
- Surrey Heath: Alasdair Pinkerton
- Sussex Weald: Danielle Newson
- Sutton and Cheam: Luke Taylor
- Sutton Coldfield: John Sweeney
- Swansea West: Mike O’Carroll
- Swindon South: Matt McCabe
- Tatton: Jonathan Smith
- Taunton and Wellington: Gideon Amos
- Tewkesbury: Cameron Thomas
- Thirsk and Malton: Steve Mason
- Thornbury and Yate: Claire Young
- Thurrock: Michael Bukola
- Tiverton and Minehead: Rachel Gilmour
- Tonbridge: John Woollcombe
- Tooting: Judith Trounson
- Torbay: Steve Darling
- Torfaen: Brendan Roberts
- Torridge and Tavistock: Phil Hutty
- Tottenham: Durgesh Hari Prabu
- Truro and Falmouth: Ruth Gripper
- Tunbridge Wells: Mike Martin
- Twickenham: Munira Wilson
- Tynemouth: John Appleby
Liberal Democrat PPCs U-Z
- Uxbridge and South Ruislip: Ian Rex-Hawkes
- Vale of Glamorgan: Steven Rajam
- Vauxhall and Camberwell Green: Chris French
- Wallasey: Vicky Downie
- Walthamstow: Rebecca Taylor
- Warrington North: David Crowther
- Warrington South: Graham Gowland
- Warwick and Leamington: Louis Adam
- Washington and Sunderland West: Ciaran Morrissey
- Watford: Ian Stotesbury
- Wealden: Olivia Honeyman
- Weald of Kent: John Howson
- Wellingborough and Rushden: Christopher Townsend
- Wells and Mendip Hills: Tessa Munt
- Welwyn Hatfield: John Munro
- West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine: Michael Turvey
- West Dorset: Edward Morello
- West Lancashire: Graham Smith
- Westmorland and Lonsdale: Tim Farron
- Weston-super-Mare: Patrick Keating
- West Suffolk: Henry Batchelor
- West Worcestershire: Dan Boatright
- Wetherby and Easingwold: James Monaghan
- Whitehaven and Workington: Chris Wills
- Widnes and Halewood: David Coveney
- Wigan: Brian Crombie-Fisher
- Wimbledon: Paul Kohler
- Winchester: Danny Chambers
- Windsor: Julian Tisi
- Wirral South: Chris Carubia
- Wirral West: Peter Reisdorf
- Witham: Ashley Thompson
- Witney: Charlie Maynard
- Woking: Will Forster
- Wokingham: Clive Jones
- Worcester: Mel Allcott
- Worsley and Eccles: Jemma De Vincenzo
- Worthing West: Morag Chugg
- The Wrekin: Anthony Lowe
- Wrexham: Tim Sly
- Wycombe: Toni Brodelle
- Wyre Forest: Shazu Miah
- Wythenshawe and Sale East: Simon Lepori
- Yeovil: Adam Dance
- Ynys Môn: Leena Farhat
- York Central: Alan Page
- York Outer: Andrew Hollyer
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What is a Prospective Parliamentary Candidate (PPC)?
Before an election, candidates are often called Prospective Parliamentary Candidates (PPCs) rather than just simple candidates. Here’s why…Way back, the law around election expenses made it very advantageous to avoid officially declaring someone to be your candidate until a few weeks out from polling day. Doing so delayed the point at which campaigning costs had to count against the fixed constituency election expense limit. The later the limit started, the more campaigning you could get in beforehand and then the more campaigning per day you could do during the controlled period as the limit had to stretch over fewer days of campaigning.
As a result, all parties took to using the phrase “Prospective Parliamentary Candidate” or PPC to describe the people they had selected who were going to become their candidate but had been selected sufficiently far in advance that they didn’t want to be called candidates yet. There was then usually an official adoption meeting much closer to the election at which the PPC would be adopted from a field of one and transformed into an official candidate.
These days, there is much less benefit from going through these legal hoops. That’s partly because the variation in time period which your constituency expense limit has to cover depending on when you start calling yourself a candidate has been greatly reduced. It’s also because there is now so much that can be legally excluded from constituency expense limits.
The PPC phrase, however, hangs on both out of habit and because in some very close contests it can still bring some value. It also helps distinguish between someone who has been through the party’s approval process and so is eligible to apply to be a PPC (often called ‘approved candidates’) and someone who is actually a PPC.
Mark, you have an extra letter (i) in Ealing Central and Acton (action)! which would make the candidate Ealing action man.
Hah, good spot!
For Salisbury I have Victoria Charleston as PPC for LibDems. Is this correct?
I think she is currently their Parliamentary spokesperson rather than having been selected as a PPC.
Thanks for the swift reply.
Who is the candidate for Camborne and Redruth?
There’s not been a public selection result for that seat yet, but it will appear in this list when there is.
The link for Charlie Maynard in Witney doesn’t work
Thanks Mick. Looks like that website has changed so have found a new link to use instead.
You haven’t got Angus MacDonald listed for the new Inverness-shire constituency. Any news on Argyll and South Lochaber?
Hi Joanne – see Ross, Skye and Lochaber in the list above re. Angus.
Hi Mark,
Will the new seats and boundaries be updated here in due course I assume?
Thanks
Yes, as selections migrate over to new seats or are done for new seats, I’ll be updating this list.
Hi.
Because many constituencies are changing their boundaries and even their names, some PPCs I know will no longer live in the constituency they were originally selected for – and I know that some have therefore decided to try for selection in the constituency that they will live in in future. (They wish to be properly local to their potential constituents),
So… can someone apply for selection in another ‘new’ constituency, if they are selected as PPC for one already? Is they can and are successful, presumably they must resign from one of them?
Hi Mark – depending on how much a constituency changes, a previous selection may carry over to the new seat or otherwise there’s a new selection run, and the previous PPC(s) for the old seats can run in that if they wish.
Great resource. Just to let you know Cambridgeshire South East has moved into other consitituencies – predominently Ely and East Cambridgeshire. Does this affect the PPC?
https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/bdy2023_anglia_summary.html
Hi Victor – the party has rules for either migrating PPCs over to new seats or running a new selection depending on how much a seat has changed. I’ll be updating this list as selections move over to being for new seats.
Sorry – just a typo and missing link:
The link for Warwick and Leamington: Louis Adam doesn’t work, and
Manuela Perteghella entry, line 2: Stratdford-on-Avon.
Thanks!
Hi Mark,
Could you provide clarity on the candidate for Ellesmere? Ellesmere Port and Neston won’t exist as a constituency at the next election.
Thanks.
Hi Greg – some of the candidates were selected before the boundary changes were confirmed. The list is being updated as those older selections are migrated over to the new boundaries.
Once a party has notified their regions Candidates chair how long before you update your list?
It varies because, for example, sometimes the person and local party want to hold off publicising the news until they’ve done a local launch for the press. By all means drop me an email if you’re wondering about a possible missing name.
Sarah Dyke is moving to the new constituency on the west of the old Somerton and Frome. Any news on who is standing in the new Frome constituency?
Not yet, James.
For Brighton Pavilion you have Ashley Drake, where I think you mean Ashley Ridley?
Good spot!
When will all be prospective Liberal Democrat candidates be announced? I am particularly interested in Hull (east) since that are is my constituency, I do hope the Liberal Democrats put a candidate there, especially since me and a lot of friends are planning to vote for the Lib Dems, including most (maybe all) of my politics class in college.
Thanks for your interest in supporting us Luna. We’ll definitely have a candidate in your seat, and they should be announced in the next few weeks.
Luna might be encouraged to stand..?
But what is the tally.. just how many constituencies are there, and how many left to fill? How does our score compare with other parties..?
Mark you have Makerfield listed twice with different candidates (one was the 2019 candidate I believe).
Also Mid Derbyshire, Barry Holliday is spelt with l twice I think, you only have 1 (as in vacation).
Keep up the excellent work, thanks, Trevor
Thanks Trevor!
Any news Mark on the Forest-of-Dean?
Not yet but will be soon.
Shouldn’t Sarah Dyke should just be listed as Glastonbury and Somerton, not Somerton and Frome as well now?
Yes indeed. Hadn’t updated yet; thanks for the prompt.
It looks like more than two thirds of our PPCs are Men – is that right & what do you think about it ?
Great to see a good line up. I can’t see a candidate for Broxbourne, Hertfordshire. Over the last few years I can’t recall a Lib Dem being fielded leaving us only Conservative or Labour to choose from. Can we change this please……
You will have a Liberal Democrat candidate to vote for in the general election Steven.