There will be a slate of seven candidates standing in the Putney constituency during the general election on 4 July – the most since the 1997 election in which Tony Blair rose to power.
As well as the main three parties – Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats – this election will also see representatives from the Green Party, Reform UK, Rejoin EU and the Workers Party.
And while seven candidates is an unusually high number, it is actually lower than the rest of London, where there is an average of 7.7 candidates for every constituency.
Across the UK as a whole, there are seven people on average for each of the 650 Member of Parliament posts, which comes out to 4,515 individuals putting themselves forward from an extraordinary 98 different political parties – the highest number of candidates since records began.
What has already made this election extraordinary is that, according to the polls, the result is already known: a huge and persistent 20-point gap between Labour and the Conservatives points to Labour receiving the largest majority in the House of Commons since the 1930s.
Of the seven candidates for Putney, two live in the constituency, four live in neighbouring parts of London and one lives in Exeter. The first hustings for the election will take place tomorrow in Roehampton.
The full candidate list is:
- Fleur Anderson, Labour Party
- Felix Burford-Connole, Rejoin EU
- Peter Hunter, Reform UK
- Heiko Bernard Khoo, Workers Party
- Kieren Michael McCarthy, Liberal Democrats
- Fergal Joseph McEntee, Green Party
- Lee Jamie Roberts, Conservative Party
