A beauty queen and a ‘dairy farmer’s wife’ are just some of the candidates standing to become new MPs in Buckinghamshire at the next general election.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has ruled out holding a general election on the same day as the local elections – May 2.

He suggested that polling day would be in the second half of 2024, while former chancellor George Osborne suggested it could be in November.

Despite an election date not yet being set, Buckinghamshire has already seen major electoral changes, with the creation of the new Milton Keynes Central constituency in the north of the county.

A Boundary Commission for England review also resulted in the new ‘mid Buckinghamshire’ constituency and other changes, such as the Hazlemere ward moving from Wycombe to Chesham and Amersham.

READ MORE: Prime Minister rules out May 2 general election

Across Buckinghamshire’s eight constituencies, some 30 candidates have already been announced, including the county’s seven most recent Conservative and Lib Dem MPs.

Some of the most recent candidates to launch their campaigns include Carissma Griffiths, a 34-year-old manager in the construction industry, who was crowned ‘Ms Voluptuous UK’ in 2022, and is standing for Labour in Mid Buckinghamshire.

Another new candidate includes Reform UK’s Jane Anne Duckworth, a self-described ‘dairy farmer’s wife and business owner’ who has pledged to improve local services in Milton Keynes North.

Here is a full run-down of the candidates announced so far:

Aylesbury

Conservative: Rob Butler

Labour: Laura Kyrke-Smith

Lib Dems: Steven Lambert

Green: Julie Atkins

Reform UK: Lesley Taylor

Workers Party of Britain: Jan Gajdos

Social Democratic Party: Richard Lewis Wilding

 

Beaconsfield

Conservative: Joy Morrissey

Labour: Matthew Patterson

Lib Dems: Anna Crabtree

Green: Dominick Pegram

Reform UK: John Halsall

Independent: Cole Caesar

Social Democratic Party: Catherine Harker

Independent: Pippa Allen

 

Buckingham and Bletchley

Conservative: Iain Stewart

Labour: Callum Anderson

Lib Dems: Dominic Dyer

Green: Amanda Onwuemene

Reform UK: Jordan Cattell

 

Chesham and Amersham

Conservative: Gareth Williams

Labour: Chris Chilton

Lib Dems: Sarah Green

Green: Justine Fulford

Reform UK: Laurence Jarvis

Workers Party of Britain: Muhammad Pervez Khan

Heritage Party: Julian Foster

 

Mid Buckinghamshire

Conservative: Greg Smith

Labour: Carissma Griffiths

Lib Dems: Anja Schaefer

Green: Greg Smith

Reform UK: Stephanie Harwood

Social Democratic Party: Yvonne Wilding

Climate Party: Wisdom Methodious Da Costa

 

Milton Keynes Central

Conservative: Johnny Luk

Labour: Emily Darlington

Lib Dems: James Cox

Green: Frances Bonney

Reform UK: To be announced

 

Milton Keynes North

Conservative: Ben Everitt

Labour: Chris Curtis

Lib Dems: Clare Tevlin

Green: Alan Francis

Reform UK: Jane Anne Duckworth

 

Wycombe

Conservative: Steve Baker

Labour: Emma Reynolds

Lib Dems: Toni Brodelle

Green: Catherine Bunting

Reform UK: Richard Phoenix

Climate Party: Ed Gemmell

Independent: Ajaz Rehman

Workers Party of Britain: Khalil Ahmed

Independent: Mark Smallwood