Who are the candidates?

9:00am - 14 June 2024
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Find out who wants to be the Member of Parliament (MP) for your local area.

The statements of persons nominated for the election of a Member of Parliament to the North Somerset and Weston-super-Mare parliamentary constituencies is available on our website (under the ‘Elections, referendums, and polling stations’ subheading).

The candidates standing for election in the North Somerset constituency are:

  • Sadik Adam Al-Hassan (Labour Party)
  • Suneil Basu (Workers Party)
  • Ash Cartman (Liberal Democrats)
  • Liam Fox (The Conservative Party Candidate)
  • Alexander Kokkinoftas (Reform UK)
  • Oscar Livesey-Lodwick (The Green Party).

The candidates standing for election in the Weston-super-Mare constituency are:

  • Dan Aldridge (Labour Party)
  • Thomas Daw (The Green Party) 
  • Patrick David Keating (Liberal Democrat) 
  • Richard Andrew Pearse (Reform UK)
  • John David Penrose (The Conservative Party Candidate).

Somerset Council is administering the new Wells and Mendip Hills constituency, so contact them with any enquiries if you live in one of these wards:

  • Banwell and Winscombe ward (Banwell, Loxton, Winscombe, Sandford)
  • Blagdon and Churchill ward (Blagdon, Burrington, Churchill)
  • Congresbury and Puxton ward (Congresbury, Puxton)
  • Yatton ward (Kenn, Kingston Seymour, Yatton – Claverham ward, Yatton – Horsecastle ward, Yatton – North ward, Yatton – South ward).

When will I find out the results?

Once the polls close at 10pm on Thursday 4 July and the first ballot boxes arrive at the count venue, the votes can be verified.

This is the legal process where the number of used, unused and spoilt papers is verified.

The count will then start and continue overnight, with results expected to be declared on the morning of Friday 5 July.

We’ll be covering the verification and count live on our X (formerly Twitter) feed, using #GE2024.

Declarations will be available on our website after the count.