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Campaigning begins across Bristol area as general election announced
Labour members in Thornbury & Yate were informed on Thursday that their parliamentary candidate for the upcoming general election is recently elected Bristol councillor, Rob Logan.
But party members were also told that “because we have been recognised as a no-win seat, our members have been asked to help canvas in the Filton & Bradley Stoke constituency”.
Over in Filton & Bradley Stoke, the Labour candidate is Claire Hazelgrove who appears to have taken a leaf out of West of England metro mayor Dan Norris’ campaigning playbook by having a dog join her for a photoshoot.
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Norris will be up against Jacob Rees-Mogg in the newly created North East Somerset & Hanham constituency, with some commentators predicting a ‘Portillo moment’ if Norris wins.
Another new constituency to be contested on July 4 will be Bristol North East, with Damian Egan – who was only recently voted in as the new MP for Kingswood – likely to return to Westminster in a seat that former Bristol mayor Marvin Rees failed to be selected in by Labour members.
These are the constitiencies in the Bristol area where candidates have so far been announced:
Bristol Central
Robert Clarke (Reform)
Nicholas Coombes (Lib Dem)
Thangam Debbonaire (Labour)
Carla Denyer (Green)
Bristol East
Dan Conaghan (Conservative)
Kerry McCarthy (Labour)
Tony Sutcliffe (Lib Dem)
Naseem Talukdar (Green)
Bristol North East
Matthew Bamford (Reform)
Damian Egan (Labour)
Lorraine Francis (Green)
Louise Harris (Lib Dem)
Rose Hulse (Conservative)
Tommy Trueman (SDP)
Bristol North West
Caroline Gooch (Lib Dem)
Darren Jones (Labour)
Mary Page (Green)
Laura Saunders (Conservative)
Ben Smith (Reform)
Bristol South
Jai Breitnauer (Green)
Liz Brennan (Conservative)
Andrew Brown (Lib Dem)
Scarlett O’Connor (Reform)
Karin Smyth (Labour)
Filton & Bradley Stoke
Benet Allen (Lib Dem)
Claire Hazelgrove (Labour)
Jack Lopresti (Conservative)
James Nelson (Green)
Gareth Watson (Reform)
North East Somerset & Hanham
Edmund Cannon (Green)
Paul MacDonnell (Reform)
Dan Norris (Labour)
Jacob Rees-Mogg (Conservative)
Dine Romero (Lib Dem)
North Somerset
Sadik Al-Hassan (Labour)
Ashley Cartman (Lib Dem)
Alexander Kokkinoftas (Reform)
Oscar Livesey-Lodwick (Green)
Thornbury & Yate
Andrew Banwell (Reform)
Alexandra Jenner-Fust (Green)
Luke Hall (Conservative)
Rob Logan (Labour)
Claire Young (Lib Dem)
Main photo: Claire Hazelgrove
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