Wellingborough by-election: Who's standing to replace Peter Bone as the next MP?
Voters will go to the polls on 15 February to elect a successor to former Wellingborough MP Peter Bone.
He was ousted by a recall petition in November after having been suspended from the Commons.
Mr Bone was suspended for six weeks after being found to have bullied and committed sexual misconduct.
The current candidates, in alphabetical order according to their party, are below.
Jay Mala Post-Mortem - Ankit Love JKNPP
Alex Merola - Britain First - Stop The Boats
Helen Harrison - Conservative Party
Helen Harrison is a councillor on North Northamptonshire Council where she represents the Oundle ward, and was formerly executive member for adults, health and wellbeing.
She has previously stood to become an MP in 2017, fighting the seat of Bolsover in Derbyshire.
Ms Harrison is the partner of former Wellingborough MP Peter Bone.
Will Morris - Green Party
A resident of Bozeat near Wellingborough for the last 25 years, Will Morris previously stood for a seat on North Northamptonshire council in the Irchester and Rushden South ward in 2021.
He currently works as a underwriting director for the London-based firm Carbon Underwriting.
Mr Morris is 55 years old, married with two children and was born in Leamington Spa.
Marion Turner-Hawes - Independent
Environmental campaigner Marion Turner-Hawes lives in Wellingborough and is an Independent member of the town council.
She has stood as a Green Party candidate in previous elections.
Last year she headed a group campaigning to save an avenue of lime trees from being cut down in Wellingborough.
Kevin Watts - Independent
Kevin Watts has been councillor on Irchester Parish Council for more than 10 years.
He was born in Wellingborough and has lived and worked in the area all his life.
He previously worked for Northamptonshire Police.
Andre Pyne-Bailey - Independent
Gen Kitchen - Labour Party
Having been born and schooled in Northamptonshire, Gen Kitchen has already fought to become an MP in the county.
She stood as the Labour candidate for South Northamptonshire in 2019 where she lost out to current Conservative MP Andrea Leadsom.
Before moving back to the county, she was a charity worker in Newham in east London where she was also a councillor.
Ana Savage Gunn - Liberal Democrats
A care home worker, Ana Savage Gunn has spent many years working in the county in which she was born.
She worked for Northamptonshire Police in the 1980s before moving to the United States where she helped run security at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. After the pandemic, she retrained as a healthcare assistant and is trustee of Northamptonshire Carers.
She has previously stood for election, unsuccessfully running to become the Northamptonshire Police and Crime Commissioner in 2021.
Ben Habib - Reform UK
Born in Karachi in Pakistan, Ben Habib has been the co-deputy leader of Reform UK since last year.
He works in the finance industry and is chief executive of property investment company First Property Group.
He was previously a member of the Conservative party, but left in 2019 to join the Brexit Party (now Reform UK) and was elected an MEP for London in that year's European Parliament election.
Nick the Flying Brick - The Official Monster Raving Loony Party
Nick the Flying Brick is the Loony Party Shadow Minister for the ‘Abolition of Gravity’.
He has previously stood in twelve elections, most recently running unsuccessfully in the hartlepool by-election in 2021.
He is currently living in a rural part of Derbyshire.
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