Listed below are the parliamentary candidates selected by the Conservative Party since the General Election. Any corrections or errors should be emailed to Tim and Sam please.
WOMEN CANDIDATES
Proportion of women selected of all candidates (71 of 255): 27.8%
Proportion of women selected since A-list (64 of 236): 27.1%
Proportion of women selected before A-list (7 of 19): 36.8%
ETHNIC MINORITY AND NON A-LIST CANDIDATES
Proportion of ethnic minority candidates selected of all candidates (13 of 255): 5.1%Proportion of local or non-A-list candidates selected since A-list (44 of 95): 46.3%*
* This count and the identification of non-A-listers in italics was stopped after 95 selections because of the effective ending of the A-list.
CONTEXT
At the last General Election just 19% of target and Conservative held seats (where the former MP was retiring) had women candidates. Just 11% of the 2005 intake were women.
All candidates in blue are men. All in purple are women.
CANDIDATES SELECTED AFTER THE A-LIST
(the most recently reported selections start from the top.)
Last updated 11/04/08. Full A-list here.
- Gerald Michaluk (Ochil and South Perthshire)
- Toby Boutle (Ilford South)
- Mark Spencer (Sherwood)
- Laura Goodchild (Inverclyde)
- Alistair Campbell (Paisley and Renfrewshire North)
- Iain McGill (Edinburgh North and Leith)
- Robert Oliver (Houghton and Sunderland South)
- Lee Martin (Sunderland Central)
- Gareth Hughes (Wrexham)
- Helen Grant (Maidstone & The Weald)
- Matthew Groves (Plymouth Moorview)
- Mark Lloyd-Davies (Bristol South)
- Adeela Shafi (Bristol East)
- Nick Yarker (Bristol West)
- Steve Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire)
- Edward Legard (Darlington)
- Chris Skidmore (Kingswood)
- Chloe Smith (Norwich North)
- Alberto Costa (Angus)
- Hazel Noonan (Coventry North East)
- Royston Smith (Southampton Itchen)
- Ian Galletley (Stockton North)
- Huw Merriman (North East Derbyshire)
- Ian Cuthbert (Washington & Sunderland West)
- Bob Dalrymple (Stirling)
- Jeremy Moulton (Southampton Test)
- Elly Jupp (Hayes & Harlington)
- Richard Normington (Cambridge)
- Jason Hadden (Croydon North)
- Annesley Abercorn (Hazel Grove)
- Nigel Huddleston (Luton South)
- Simon Hoare (Cardiff South & Penarth)
- Rene Kinzett (Swansea West)
- Jeremy Brier (Luton)
- Leah Fraser (Wallasey)
- Mark Bowen (Feltham & Heston)
- John Bell (Clywd South)
- Andrea Stephenson (Linlithglow & East Falkirk)
- Will Gallagher (Alyn & Deeside)
- Ross Thompson (Gordon)
- Stuart Penketh (Ellesmere Port & Neston)
- Jim Ferguson (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey)
- Phillip Lardner (North Ayrshire & Arran)
- Michael Veitch (East Lothian)
- Alex Johnstone (West Aberdeenshire & Kincardine)
- Derek Thomas (St Ives)
- Mark Versallion (Stretford & Urmston)
- Mark Jones (Aberdeen South)
- Phil Gallie (Ayrshire Central)
- David Potts (Edinburgh South West)
- Stewart Geddes (Edinburgh West)
- Martin McIntyre (Dunbartonshire West)
- Trefor Jones (Ynys Mon)
- Flick Drummond (Portsmouth South)
- Oliver Colville (Plymouth Sutton)
- Mark Nolan (Dunbartonshire East)
- Neil Hudson (Edinburgh South)
- Brenda Porter (Southport)
- Nick Boles (Grantham & Stamford)
- Antoinette Sandbach (Delyn)
- Maria Hutchings (Eastleigh)
- Stephen Mosley (Chester)
- Peter Duncan (Dumfried & Galloway)
- John Wilford (Wolverhampton North East)
- Ken Wood (Wolverhampton South East)
- Thelma Matuk (Walsall South)
- Helen Clack (Walsall North)
- Chris D Kelly (Dudley South)
- John Perry (Dudley North)
- Helen Baker (Bridgend)
- Douglas Ross (Moray)
- Chris Walker (Berwickshire, Roxburgh & Selkirk)
- Simon Hart (Camarthen West & South Pembrokeshire)
- Caroline Brodie (Argyll & Bute)
- Jonathan Evans MEP (Cardiff North)
- Matthew Williams (Newport West)
- Matt Wright (Vale of Clywd)
- Suzy Davies (Brecon & Radnorshire)
- Dr Spencer Pitfield (Penistone & Stocksbridge)
- Ben Gummer (Ipswich)
- Byron Davies (Gower)
- Guto Webb (Aberconwy)
- Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan)
- Alf Doran (Chorley)
- Rowena Holland (Nottingham South)
- Glyn Davies (Montgomeryshire)
- Matthew Riddle (Thornbury & Yale)
- Jackie Doyle-Price (Thurrock)
- Matthew Offord (Hendon)
- Sian Flynn (Cornwall North)
- Kevin Davis (Yeovil)
- Peter Aldous (Waveney)
- Graham Evans (Weaver Vale)
- Kevin Hollinrake (Dewsbury)
- Adrian Owens (West Lancs)
- Ron Bell (Blackpool South)
- Edward Timpson (Crewe & Nantwich)
- Rehman Chishti (Gillingham & Rainham)
- Rachel Joyce (Harrow West)
- Philip Allott (Halifax)
- Graham Robb (Sedgefield)
- Tony Lit (Ealing Southall)
- Alex Story (Wakefield)
- Charlie Elphicke (Dover)
- John Gough (Barrow & Furness)
- Nigel Mills (Amber Valley)
- Tim Archer (Poplar and Limehouse)
- Ian Gibb (Ealing North)
- Nigel Dawkins (Selly Oak)
- Stephen Mold (Derby North)
- Simon Jones (Dagenham & Rainham)
- Helen Whately (Kingston and Surbiton)
- Keely Rogers (Birmingham Northfield)
Nigel Hastilow (Halesowen and Rowley Regis)RESIGNED- Keith Girling (Bassetlaw)
- Shaun Bailey (Hammersmith)
- David Morris (Morecambe and Lunesdale)
- Jessica Lee (Erewash)
- Craig Whittaker (Calder Valley)
- Andrew Jones (Harrogate and Knaresborough)
- Chris Whiteside (Copeland)
- Julie Moody (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland)
- David Mowat (Warrington South)
- Angela Watkinson (Hornchurch and Upminster)
- Matthew Lobley (Leeds NE)
- Fabian Richter (Bath)
- Deborah Thomas (Twickenham)
- Ben Jeffreys (Cheadle)
- Jill Skalla (Colchester)
- Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park)
- Gary Ridley (Coventry NW)
- Hannah Parker (Exeter)
- John Woodward (Camborne Redruth)
- Diana Coad (Slough)
- James Wharton (Stockton South)
- Simon Rouse (Nuneaton)
- Daniel Byles (Warwickshire North)
- Zahid Iqbal (Bradford West)
- Eric Ollerenshaw (Lancaster and Fleetwood)
- Jason McCartney (Colne Valley)
- Chris White (Warwick and Leamington)
- Neil Parish MEP (Tiverton and Honiton)
- Damian Hinds (Hampshire East)
- Paul Uppal (Wolverhampton SW)
- Karl McCartney (Lincoln)
- Owen Inskip (Kingswood)
- Mark Clarke (Tooting)
- Mark Pawsey (Rugby)
- Jeff Clarke (Wirral South)
- Jake Berry (Rossendale and Darwen)
- Alec Shelbrooke (Elmet and Rothwell)
- Philippa Stroud (Sutton and Cheam)
- Susan Williams (Bolton West)
- David Bull (Brighton Pavilion)
- Kris Hopkins (Keighley)
- Caroline Righton (St Austell and Newquay)
- Jesse Norman (Hereford)
- Chris Philp (Hampstead and Kilburn)
- Paul Maynard (Blackpool North and Cleveleys)
- Mike Freer (Finchley & Golders Green)
- Mary MacLeod (Brentford and Isleworth)
- Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Berwick-upon-Tweed)
- Amber Rudd (Hastings & Rye)
- Wendy Morton (Tynemouth)
- Margot James (Stourbridge)
- Michael Ellis (Northampton North)
- Bruce Laughton (Gedling)
- John Stevenson (Carlisle)
- Richard Graham (Gloucester)
- Trevor Ivory (Norfolk North)
- Anne-Marie Morris (Newton Abbot)
- Stephen Metcalfe (East Thurrock and South Basildon)
- Tracey Crouch (Chatham & Aylesford)
- Julia Mulligan (Leeds NW)
- Nick King (Mid Dorset and North Poole)
- Simon Kirby (Brighton Kemptown)
- Kevin Foster (Coventry South)
- Stuart Andrew (Pudsey)
- Bob Blackman (Harrow East)
- Priti Patel (Witham)
- Joanne Cash (Westminster North)
- Anne McIntosh (Thirsk & Malton)
- Andrew Bridgen (Leicestershire NW)
- Deborah Dunleavy (Bolton NE)
- Ian Oakley (Watford)
- Philip J Milton (Devon North)
- Mark Coote (Cheltenham)
- Steve Brine (Winchester)
- Stephen McPartland (Stevenage)
- Heather Wheeler (Derbyshire South)
- Tom Biggins (Telford)
- Nicola Blackwood (Oxford West and Abingdon)
- David Nuttall (Bury North)
- George Hollingbery (Meon Valley)
- Brandon Lewis (Great Yarmouth)
- Charlotte Leslie (Bristol NW)
- Martin Vickers (Cleethorpes)
- Andrew Griffiths (Burton)
- Andrew Percy (Brigg & Goole)
- Sheryll Murray (South East Cornwall)
- Gordon Henderson (Sittingbourne & Sheppey)
- George Freeman (Mid-Norfolk)
- Laura Sandys (Thanet South)
- Gareth Johnson (Dartford)
- Angie Bray (Ealing Central and Acton)
- Annunziata Rees-Mogg (Somerton & Frome)
- Neil Carmichael (Stroud)
- Sarah Newton (Truro & Falmouth)
- Louise Bagshawe (Corby)
- Henry Smith (Crawley)
- Jane Ellison (Battersea)
- Esther McVey (Wirral West)
- Richard Fuller (Bedford & Kempston)
- Andrew Stephenson (Pendle)
- Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford)
- Debi Jones (Sefton Central)
- Robin Walker (Worcester) 3,144 (Lab)
- David Gold (Eltham) 3,276 (Lab)
- Michelle Wiseman (Bury South) 8,912 (Lab)
- Richard Drax (South Dorset) 1,812 (Lab)
- Alok Sharma (Reading West) 4,980 (Lab)
- Jacob Rees-Mogg (North East Somerset) 234 (C)
- Mike Weatherley (Hove) 420 (Lab)
- Anna Soubry (Broxtowe) 2,296 (Lab)
- Harriett Baldwin (West Worcestershire) 2,475 (C)
- Karen Bradley (Staffordshire Moorlands) 1,035 (C)
- Damian Collins (Folkestone & Hythe) 11,680 (C)
- Jason Sugarman (Lewes) 8,474 (LD)
- Julian Sturdy (York Outer) 1,821 (LD)
- Jack LoPresti (Filton and Bradley Stoke) 1,201 (C)
- Chris Heaton-Harris MEP (Daventry)
- Nigel Adams (Selby & Ainsty)
- Andrea Leadsom (South Northamptonshire)
- Pauline Latham (Mid-Derbyshire)
- Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones (Chippenham)
- Mel Stride (Central Devon)
- Bob Neill (Bromley and Chislehurst)
CANDIDATES FAST-TRACKED BEFORE THE A-LIST
(Alphabetical by candidate surname)
- Cllr Deirdre Alden (Birmingham Edgbaston)
- Dr Ken Andrew (Carshalton & Wallington)
Cllr Richard Bell (Westmorland & Lonsdale)RESIGNEDMark Bigley (Southport)RESIGNED- Cllr Andrew Bingham (High Peak)
- Robert Buckland (South Swindon)
- Richard Cook (East Renfrewshire)
- Nick de Bois (Enfield North)
- Mark Formosa (Taunton)
- Lorraine Fullbrook (South Ribble)
- Cllr Mark Garnier (Wyre Forest)
- Robert Halfon (Harlow)
- Karen Lumley (Redditch)
- Penny Mordaunt (Portsmouth North)
- Nicky Morgan (Loughborough)
- Cllr Caroline Nokes (Romsey)
Paul Offer (City of Chester)RESIGNED- Christopher Pincher (Tamworth)
- Iain Stewart (Milton Keynes South West)
- Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon)
- Maggie Throup (Solihull)
- Marcus Wood (Torbay)
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