Who's standing in Boston & Skegness & how close is it?

Candidates

• Robert West - British National Party

• Matt Warman - Conservative

• Victoria Percival - Green

• Chris Pain - Independence from Europe

• Peter Johnson - Independent

• Paul Kenny - Labour

• David Watts - Liberal Democrats

• Lyn Luxton - The Pilgrim Party

• Robin Hunter-Clarke - UKIP

A Conservative seat since 1997, this is also one of UKIP's strongest seats. They received 9.5% of the vote in 2010, their second highest, and they topped the polls in the 2013 County Council elections.

The Conservative MP Mark Simmonds stood down this year.

It's a largely rural seat where tourism and agriculture dominate.

2010 election

• Conservative: 21325 (49.4%)

• Labour: 8899 (20.6%)

• Liberal Democrats: 6371 (14.8%)

• BNP: 2278 (5.3%)

• UKIP: 4081 (9.5%)

• Independent: 171 (0.4%)