Confirmed: Every Lancashire candidate standing in the General Election 2024

The Lancashire Lead, June 7, 2024

So, here we are - 27 days until voting opens and now all the candidates are now confirmed. The internal squabbling is done, £500 deposits paid, and each party has a name to place on its signs.

While the Liberal Democrats had their choices announced well in advance and Labour had confirmed all theirs by last week, there were still a few question marks for the other party’s going into the final day.

Notably, the Conservatives had yet to announce a candidate for Blackpool South, the seat it won in 2019 after 12 years under Labour. Scott Benton’s time as MP was mired in controversy and ended in scandal, with Labour romping home in a by-election a matter of weeks ago.

The candidate has since been named as Zak Khan, but the Hyndburn councillor of the same name has been keen to stress it is not him.

Aside from Ben Wallace and Mark Menzies, all of the previous MPs have stood to defend their seats and there’s several Tories hoping they can defy the polling in their own constituencies, even if Rishi Sunak keeps blundering through the national campaign.

In Hyndburn, Conservative Sara Britcliffe appeared to not only have to deal with the threat of Labour being tipped to win the seat back, but also having a family member on the ballot sheet. Her first cousin Matthew Britcliffe said he plenned to stand for the Workers Party of Britain - but his name does not appear on the official list of persons nominated.

Speaker of the House Sir Lindsay Hoyle stands again as Labour’s Chorley candidate and, in accordance with convention, most of the larger parties have not fielded a candidate against him.

Notable independent candidates include Michael Lavalette, a former city councillor who is standing on a pro-Palestinian platform in Preston; Altaf ‘Tiger’ Patel, who quit the Conservative Party over the Government’s stance on the Gaza-crisis; and Sean Halsall in Southport who quit Labour over the same issue among others.

The full, confirmed list of Lancashire candidates is below. Again, I’ve included Southport as it now contains three wards which have moved from the South Ribble seat and remain in Lancashire County Council’s area.

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Blackburn - Kate Hollern (Lab), Adnan Hussain (Independent), Jamie McGowan (Con), Denise Morgan (Green), Craig Murray (Workers Party of Britain), Tiger Patel (Independent), Natasha Shah (Independent), Tommy Temperley (Reform), Adam Waller-Slack (Lib Dem)

Blackpool North and Fleetwood - Dan Barker (Reform), Lorraine Beavers (Lab), Jan Cresswell (Social Democratic Party), Gita Gordon (Independent), Bill Greene (Lib Dem), Paul Maynard (Con), Tina Rothery (Green), James Rust (Official Monster Raving Looney Party)

Blackpool South - Stephen Black (Independent), Mark Butcher (Reform), Andy Cregan (Lib Dem), Zak Khan (Con), Kim Knight (Alliance for Freedom and Democracy), Ben Thomas (Green), Chris Webb (Lab)

Burnley - Gordon Birtwistle (Lib Dem), Mitchell Cryer (Independent), Rayyan Flass (Independent), Antony Higginbotham (Con), Jack Launer (Green), Nathan McCollum (Reform), David Roper (Independent), Oliver Ryan (Lab)

Chorley - Ben Holden-Crowther (Democracy for Chorley), Lindsay Hoyle (Lab), Graham Moore (English Constitution Party), Martin Powell-Davies (Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition), Mark Worsley Tebbutt (Green)

Fylde - Anne Aitken (Independent), Tom Calver (Lab), Mark Jewell (Lib Dem), Cheryl Morrison (Alliance for Freedom and Democracy), Andrew Snowden (Con), Brendan Wilkinson (Green), Brook Wimbury (Reform)

Hyndburn - Sara Britcliffe (Con), Shabir Fazal (Green), Richard John Oakley (Reform), Sarah Smith (Lab), Beth Waller-Slack (Lib Dem)

Lancaster and the Wyre - Nigel Alderson (Reform), Peter Cartridge (Con), Jack Lenox (Green), Matt Severn (Lib Dem), Cat Smith (Labour)

Morecambe and Lunesdale - Lizzi Collinge (Lab), Gina Dowding (Green), Peter Jackson (Lib Dem), David Morris (Con), Barry Parsons (Reform)

Pendle and Clitheroe - Victoria Ann Fletcher (Reform), Anna Fryer (Lib Dem), Syed Hashmi (Workers Party), Jonathan Hinder (Lab), Tony Johnson (Independent), Zulfikar Ali Khan (Independent), Lex Kristan (Green), Andrew Stephenson (Con), Christopher Thompson (Rejoin EU)

Preston - Yousuf Bhailok (Independent), David Brooks (Alliance for Freedom and Democracy), Neil Darby (Lib Dem), James Elliot (Reform), Trevor Hart (Con), Mark Hendrick (Lab), Derek Killeen (UK Independence Party), Michael Lavalette (Independent), Izzy Metcalf-Riener (Green), Joseph O’Meachair (Rejoin EU)

Ribble Valley - Qasim Ajmi (Independent), John Carroll (Reform), Maya Ellis (Lab), Nigel Evans (Con), Caroline Montague (Green), John Potter (Lib Dem)

Rossendale and Darwen - Tayab Ali (Workers Party), Bob Bauld (Green), Jake Berry (Con), Rowan Fitton (Lib Dem), Andy MacNae (Lab), Daniel Matchett (Reform)

South Ribble - Katherine Fletcher (Con), Paul Foster (Lab), Andy Hunter (Reform), Stephani Karyim Mok (Green), Ange Turner (Lib Dem)

Southport - Edwin Black (Green), Sean Halsall (Independent), Erin Harvey (Lib Dem), Patrick Hurley (Lab), Andrew Lynn (Reform), Damien Moore (Con)

West Lancashire - Ashley Dalton (Lab), Simon Evans (Reform), Charlotte Houltram (Green), Mike Prendergast (Con), Graham Smith (Lib Dem)

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