Candidates standing in General Election 2024

5:06pm - 07 June 2024
Ballot box

The statements of persons nominated for the election of a member of parliament to the North Somerset and Weston-super-Mare parliamentary constituencies have been published.

You’ll find them on the public and legal notices 2024 page of 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)

There’s more information about voting in General Election 2024 at www.n-somerset.gov.uk/ge2024.

Following a review of parliamentary constituency boundaries by the Boundary Commission for England in 2023, five of our council wards are in the new Wells and Mendip Hills constituency:

  • 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)

Somerset Council is administering the Wells and Mendip Hills constituency. Enquiries relating to that constituency should be directed to Somerset Council’s communications team on pressoffice@somerset.gov.uk or 01823 355 020.