Full list of Mid-Bedfordshire by-election candidates after Nadine Dorries' resignation

Nadine Dorries formally resigned as an MP in August 2023. Credit: PA

The runners and riders hoping to become Mid Bedfordshire's new MP - and succeed former cabinet minister Nadine Dorries - have been finalised.

A by-election will take place on 19 October for the constituency, previously held by the Conservative MP from 2005 to 2023.

Ms Dorries formally resigned on 26 August from her elected post, 78 days after she announced she was stepping down as an MP with immediate effect on social media.

Her initial resignation announcement came after months of speculation that the former culture secretary was to be handed a peerage in Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list.

But she was not included on the list when it was published, an hour after she tweeted her resignation.

Ms Dorries won 60% of the vote in the constituency of Mid Bedfordshire at the 2019 general election, well ahead of Labour in second place on 22%.

She increased her majority from 20,983 in 2017 to 24,664 in 2019, with a swing of 2.4% from Labour to the Conservatives.

The list of candidates in the by-election are:

- Festus Akinbusoye, The Conservative Party

- Sid Cordle, Christian Peoples Alliance

- Prince Ankit, Love Emperor of India

- Dave Holland, Reform UK

- Emma Louise Holland-Lindsay, Liberal Democrats

- Ann Kelly, The Official Monster Raving Loony Party

- Gareth Mackey, Independent

- Chris Rooney, Mainstream

- Cade Sibley, Green Party

- Alistair Luke Strathern, Labour Party

- Alberto George Thomas, Heritage Party

- Alan Victor, True & Fair Party

- Antonio Daniel Vintello, English Democrats "Putting England First"

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