Who Does Southampton Independents Endorse At The 2024 General Election?

 

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Answer: Nobody.

Why?

Because we are impartial and have tried to make sure that our coverage of the Election has been impartial and fair.

We have tried to give equal treatment to all candidates, even when some have failed to co-operate with our questions, our requests for interview, or even to take up our fair offers of a right of reply when we have published information about them.

State of the Candidates - Who has co-operated with the Southampton Independents coverage?

Most importantly, the residents of Southampton. And 6 candidates in total - both Test and Itchen TUSC candidates, both Test and Itchen Reform UK candidates, one of the Conservative candidates in Southampton Test, and the Workers Party of Great Britain candidate in Southampton Test. You can click the links below to find out more and search the website for more too.

State of the Candidates - Who has not co-operated?

Unsurprisingly, almost all of the candidates of the Westminster parties. That is 7 in total - the Test and Itchen Greens refused to answer any questions and never took up an offer of a right of reply, both Test and Itchen Labour candidates did not respond to our questions, nor any request at all, and the Conservative Itchen candidate never responded to anything at all - not our questions, nor any request at all. You can click the links below to find out more about these unco-operative candidates and search the website for more too, including our investigations into them.

 

 

Why Southampton Independents Is Covering the 2024 General Election

To say again, Southampton Independents recommends no particular candidate in the 2024 General Election. We publish this information and the information about the other candidates to help inform Southampton residents.

Information about candidates is on the articles published over the campaign. You can use the Search. Or you can start here, or see below:

2024 General Election Candidates in Southampton

 

Which Constituency Am I In? Who Can I Vote For?

This will be on your poll card, which also tells you where you should vote. Remember that you need photo ID to vote now, since the Election Act 2022. We would send you to the Council advice on types of ID, but sadly at the time of writing, the Council website WAS DOWN (eve of polling day).

Council website DOWN Eve of Polling Day 3rd July 2024
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Luckily, the gov.uk site was not down and you can find out what ID is acceptable there. But if you don't have any of those forms of ID, you will not be able to vote. And if you did not register to vote in time, you also will not be able to vote.

You can find out which Constituency you are in by going to the Write To Them website here. 

Or if you know which constituency you are in:

In the Southampton Itchen Constituency, the candidates are listed here. It has been updated with the answers and non-answers from candidates. You can also search the site for articles on the candidates.

In the Southampton Test Constituency, the candidates are listed here. It has been updated with the answers and non-answers from candidates. You can also search the site for articles on the candidates.

In the Romsey and Southampton North Constituency, the candidates are listed here.

 

What's Your Choice for 4th July? 

You can choose to:

1. vote for one candidate by putting an X in one box only, or 
2. choose not to vote at all or 
3. choose to positively spoil your ballot by writing "none of the above". 

It's your choice.

We have provided this free public service for Southampton residents to better inform your choice.

We know that this service has been used, from our website statistics, and from what residents have told us.

Tell us what you think of our coverage, and our website. You can comment below, or you can contact us here.