In the next month 29 seats will short-list their wannabe Lib Dem MPs
by Stephen Tall on February 22, 2014
Here’s the full list of selection contests in the coming month available for Lib Dems on the approved parliamentary candidates’ list, together with the closing date for applications. They include five of the seats on the party’s top 50 target list: Newport East, Totnes, Bristol North West, Bristol South, and Chelmsford.
The following seats have selections in progress and are currently advertising for candidates:
- Arundel & South Downs, 24th February
- Daventry, 24th February
- Mid Sussex, 24th February
- Mid Derbyshire, 28th February
- Newport East, 28th February
- Newport West, 28th February
- Totnes, 28th February
- East Devon, 7th March
- Oldham West & Royton, 7th March
- Tunbridge Wells, 7th March
- Bristol East, 14th March
- Bristol North West, 14th March
- Bristol South, 14th March
- Exeter, 14th March
- Workington, 14th March
- Southend West, 15th March
- East Kilbride, Strathaven & Lesmahagow, 17th March
- Glasgow Central, 17th March
- Glasgow East, 17th March
- Glasgow North, 17th March
- Glasgow North East, 17th March
- Glasgow North West, 17th March
- Glasgow South, 17th March
- Glasgow South West, 17th March
- Rutherglen and Hamilton West, 17th March
- South Suffolk, 17th March
- Chelmsford, 21st March
- North Thanet, 21st March
- Skipton & Ripon, 31st March
In addition, Aberdeenshire West is selecting a candidate for the Scottish Parliament (7th March).
Further information, including Returning Officer contact details, can be found on the Lib Dem members’ website: http://www.libdems.org.uk/forms/user_sessions/new and then once you have logged in by following the links: Our Party > Selection Adverts – Latest News. Note you will need to register online and login in order to access the advert webpage.
* Stephen Tall is Co-Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice, and editor of the 2013 publication, The Coalition and Beyond: Liberal Reforms for the Decade Ahead. He is also a Research Associate for the liberal think-tank CentreForum and writes at his own site, The Collected Stephen Tall.