Here’s the full list of selection contests in the coming month available for Lib Dems on the approved parliamentary candidates’ list, together with the closing date for applications. They include five of the seats on the party’s top 50 target list: Edinburgh South, York Outer (following Nick Emmerson’s withdrawal), Devon West and Torridge, Bristol North West, and Chelmsford.
The following seats have selections in progress and are currently advertising for candidates:
- Chorley, 11th February
Bexhill and Battle, 14th February
Edinburgh South, 14th February
South Norfolk, 14th February
Broadland, 17th February
Selby & Ainsty, 17th February
York Outer, 17th February
Epsom and Ewell, 21st February
Torridge & West Devon, 21st February
Eltham, 22nd February
Erith and Thamesmead, 22nd February
Greenwich and Woolwich, 22nd February
Arundel & South Downs, 24th February
Daventry, 24th February
Mid Sussex, 24th February
East Devon, 7th March
Bristol East, 14th March
Bristol North West, 14th March
Bristol South, 14th March
Exeter, 14th March
Chelmsford, 21st March
Further information, including Returning Officer contact details, can be found on the Lib Dem members’ website: http://ldmembers.libdems.org.uk/ and then once you have logged in by following the links: Our Party > Selection Adverts – Latest News. Note you will need to register online and login in order to access the advert webpage.
* Stephen was Editor (and Co-Editor) of Liberal Democrat Voice from 2007 to 2015, and writes at The Collected Stephen Tall.
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David wilkinson 10th Feb ’14 – 8:05am More of Cleggie’s lambs for the 2015 slaughter
Clegg …. …. the Little Bo Peep of politics?
A seat selecting a candidate a year out from the general election is not a top target. It really goes to show the shambolic state of the party. It is really back to the disaterous days when the Liberal Party didn’t field enough candidates to win even if they had all been elected. At least then though the party could comfort itself with the thought that there were untapped areas of support.
Moving on in history, in 1964 for example the party gain 11% of the vote, with just 365 candidates, and could assume that had it fielded 630 candidates, it could have polled nearer 18% . What does it say about Cleggs leadership that the partyy is stuck with a lower level of support than in 1964 and that according to his team this is party of the strategy !
May we please now hve list ofconstituencies which have begun selection contests only to abandon them for lack of applicants? I believe that I live in one of them.
If theres a shortage of candidates then part of the reason might be the constant chorus of Doom from a noisy minority.
I’m not part of any “noisy minority”, Paul; I am a member of the majority who belong to no political party.
But, Paul, if would-be candidates are deterred by a “noisy minority”, they can’t have much backbone.
paul barker 10th Feb ’14 – 1:06pm
If theres a shortage of candidates then part of the reason might be the constant chorus of Doom from a noisy minority.
Some people call it “doom”, others an objective assessment of where the party is after 6 years of Clegg. Even his big splash statement on the Observer front page has been described as vague and not really party policy, not really anything. So the leader of the party devotes a week to visiting Brazil, Colombia and Mexico and gets a less than distinct policy proposal covered in a newspaper which in the old days might have been considered sympathetic to us. It is a policy area which will not win many votes, even if any of us can work out what his proposal actually is.
We are 15 months from a General Election four years since the last election when our number of MPs went down. We are expected to do badly on Thursday, badly in May in local elections and MEP elections. We have whole stretches of the country where the party is so moribund it cannot attract a single application to be ppc. If you do not call that “doom”, what do you call it? Perhaps devotees of the Orange Book call it a wonderful success? Maybe they coud tell us?
BTW – I do not cal it “doom” but it is most certainly a continuing slide in that direction. Clegg like some downhill ski novice who has forgotten his skis is just tumbling clueless downwards.
Out of curiosity, is there a complete (public) list anywhere of seats which have already selected?
With the loyalists’ favourite pollster ICM now showing the LIb Dems on 10%, one would have thought that even the diehards would acknowledge there is a real problem here.