General Election Hitchin | Full list of candidates

14 June 2024, 08:02

UK polling station
UK polling station. Picture: Alamy

The candidates for the upcoming General Election in Hitchin have been announced.

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The deadline for General Election candidates to be confirmed was Friday, June 7.

The list of candidates confirmed as standing so far are:

  • Bim Afolami (Conservative and Unionist Party)
  • Charles Spencer Bunker (Reform UK)
  • Sid Cordle (Christian Peoples Alliance)
  • William Lavin (Green Party)
  • Chris Lucas (Liberal Democrats)
  • Alistair Strathern (Labour Party)

Voters across the country will go to the polls on July 4.

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