General Election 2024: Candidates for Fareham and Waterlooville - who can I vote for and how to vote

The newly formed constituency, created following the 2023 boundary review, will feature candidates from all major parties. The new seat represents parts of Fareham and Meon Valley, combining the eastern half of the previous Fareham constituency with Waterlooville, Southwick, Denmead, Wickham, and Knowle.

The former Fareham and Meon Valley constituencies were previously held by Suella Braverman and Flick Drummond of the Conservative Party, respectively. Braverman has been elected three times in Fareham since 2010, securing 63.7 per cent of the vote in the last election in 2019. Fellow Conservative Flick Drummond has represented Meon Valley since 2019 and was the MP for Portsmouth South between 2015 and 2017.

NOW READ: Candidates for both Portsmouth seats

The candidates

• Suella Braverman – The Conservative Party
• Kevan Chippindall-Higgin – Reform UK
• Edward Dean – Rejoin EU
• Gemma Furnivall – Labour Party
• Bella Hewitt – Liberal Democrats
• Robert Holliday – Hampshire Independents
• Baz Marie – Green Party

How to vote

Residents must register to vote by 11.59pm on Tuesday, June 18. Applications can be made online at: www.gov.uk/register-to-vote. For postal votes, applications must reach the electoral registration officer by 5pm on Wednesday, June 19. Applications can be made online at www.gov.uk/apply-postal-vote. Proxy votes, or votes done on behalf of someone else, must be registered by 5pm on Wednesday, June 26. Applications can be made online at: www.gov.uk/apply-proxy-vote.

If voting in person at a poll station you’ll need one of the following types of photo ID to vote:

• a UK or Northern Ireland photocard driving licence (full or provisional)
• a driving licence issued by an EU country, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, the Isle of Man or any of the Channel Islands
• a UK passport
• a passport issued by an EU country, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein or a Commonwealth country
• a PASS card (National Proof of Age Standards Scheme)
• a Blue Badge
• a biometric residence permit (BRP)
• a Defence Identity Card (MOD form 90)
• a national identity card issued by the EU, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein
• a Northern Ireland Electoral Identity Card
• a Voter Authority Certificate
• an Anonymous Elector’s Document

You can also use one of the following travel passes as photo ID when you vote:

• an older person’s bus pass
• a disabled person’s bus pass
• an Oyster 60+ card
• a Freedom Pass
• a Scottish National Entitlement Card (NEC)
• a 60 and Over Welsh Concessionary Travel Card
• a Disabled Person’s Welsh Concessionary Travel Card
• a Northern Ireland concessionary travel pass