Constituency profile: Boston and Skegness

In Boston and Skegness, it promises to be another tight race.

An opinion poll from February had Conservatives and Ukip neck and neck in what has traditionally been a safe Tory seat. The gap between the two parties was just 3%.

Results in 2010:

  • Conservative: 21,325 (49.4%)

  • Labour: 8,899 (20.6%)

  • Liberal Democrat: 6,371 (14.8 %)

  • UK Independence Party 4,081 (9.5%)

  • British National Party 2,278 (5.3%)

  • Independent 171 (0.4%)

2015 candidates:

  • Robin Hunter-Clarke (UKIP)

  • Peter Johnson (Independent)

  • Paul Robert Kenny (Labour)

  • Lyn Luxton (The Pilgrim Party)

  • Chris Pain (Independence from Europe)

  • Victoria Percival (Green)

  • Matt Warman (Conservative)

  • David Kenneth Watts (Lib Dem)

  • Robert Malcolm Brian West (BNP)