The Conservative Party's top Liberal Democrat targets

Further to yesterday's launch of the 'Yellow to Blue' campaign; ConHome's effort to raise funds for ousting Liberal Democrat MPs, here are the candidates standing against sitting Lib Dem MPs (or notional Lib Dem seats) in order of where they are on the target list (on Rallings and Thrasher figures), up to the 200th target seat:

1. Maggie Throup - Solihull (Loreley Burt)
2. Julian Sturdy - York Outer (New seat, notionally Lib Dem ultra-marginal)
3. Caroline Nokes - Romsey and Southampton North (Sandra Gidley)
4. Mark Coote - Cheltenham (Martin Horwood)
5. Annunziata Rees-Mogg - Somerton and Frome (David Heath)
6. Maria Hutchings - Eastleigh (Chirs Huhne)
7. Gareth McKeever - Westmorland and Lonsdale (Tim Farron)
8. Jesse Norman - Hereford and Herefordshire South (Sitting Lib Dem MP retiring)
9. Ken Andrew - Carshalton and Wallington (Tom Brake)
10. Mark Formosa - Taunton Deane (Jeremy Browne)
11. Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones - Chippenham (New seat, notionally Lib Dem marginal)
12. Marcus Wood - Torbay (Adrian Sanders)
13. Philippa Stroud - Sutton and Cheam (Paul Burstow)
14. Sian Flynn - Cornwall North (Dan Rogerson)
15. Zac Goldsmith - Richmond Park (Susan Kramer)
16. Ben Jeffreys - Cheadle (Mark Hunter)
17. Flick Drummond - Portsmouth South (Mike Hancock)
18. Sarah Newton - Truro and Falmouth (New seat, notionally Lib Dem marginal)
19. Brenda Porter - Southport (John Pugh)
20. Julia Mulligan - Leeds North West (Greg Mulholland)
21. Suzy Davies - Brecon and Radnorshire (Roger Williams)
22. George Eustice - Camborne and Redruth (Julia Goldsworthy)
23. Anne-Marie Morris - Newton Abbot (Richard Younger-Ross)
24. Philip Milton - Devon North (Nick Harvey)
25. Sheryll Murray - Cornwall South East (Sitting Lib Dem MP retiring)
26. Caroline Righton - St Austell and Newquay (New seat, notionally Lib Dem marginal)
27. Steve Brine - Winchester (Sitting MP retiring)
28. John Lamont MSP - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (Michael Moore)
29. Gary Mulvaney - Argyll and Bute (Alan Reid)
30. Nick King - Dorset Mid and Poole North (Annette Brooke)
31. Nicola Blackwood - Oxford West and Abingdon (Evan Harris)
32. Fabian Richter - Bath (Don Foster)
33. Will Quince - Colchester (Bob Russell)
34. Nicola Bates - Sheffield Hallam (Nick Clegg)
35. Andrew Jones - Harrogate and Knaresborough (Sitting Lib Dem MP retiring)
36. Jason Sugarman - Lewes (Norman Baker)
37. Trevor Ivory - Norfolk North (Norman Lamb)
38. Kevin Davis - Yeovil (David Laws)
39. Alex Johnstone MSP  - Aberdeenshire West and Kincardine (Robert Smith)
40. Helen Whateley - Kingston and Surbiton (Ed Davey)
41. Deborah Thomas - Twickenham (Vince Cable)
42. Annesley Abercorn - Hazel Grove (Andrew Stunell)

Click here to read about the Yellow to Blue campaign.

Jonathan Isaby