All the Folkestone and Hythe General Election candidates after your vote in 2024

Tom van Klaveren

3 July 2024 at 8:23 am·1-min read

Eight candidates are standing for your vote in Folkestone and Hythe in the 2024 General Election — -Credit: (Image: KentLive)

The constituency of Folkestone and Hythe will see voters have the choice between eight candidates including representatives from all of the major parties.

It is another seat that could possibly be close between the Conservatives’ Labour and Reform. Folkestone and Hythe is currently held by Tory MP Damian Collins.

Mr Collins won the seat with a majority of more than 21,000 votes in 2019 but this time around a closer race is forecast.

As well as Mr Collins for the Conservatives, candidates for Labour, the Lib Dems, Green Party, Reform UK, the Fairer Voting Party, the Trade Unionist and Socialist Party and the Socialist Party are all standing.

A full list of candidates for Folkestone and Hythe constituency is listed below:

David Allen, Fairer Voting
Marianne Brett, Green
Damian Collins, Con
Momtaz Khanom, Trade Unionist and Socialist
Larry Ngan, Lib Dem
Andy Thomas, Socialist Party
Tony Vaughan, Lab
Bill Wright, Reform

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