34 Candidates. Clacton Should Hear From All of Them.

Self-funded Independent candidate and founder of Clacton.org. His campaign focuses on healthcare and care, local housing, transport, jobs, crime, accessibility, local business and direct accountability to residents.

Spent 35 years in state education and now volunteers with community organisations. His campaign stresses listening first, evidence over slogans and long-term work on employment, housing, healthcare, education and investment.

Says he has lived in Clacton for more than ten years and worked in health and social care for more than 30 years. His priorities include high streets, employment opportunities and a local voice at Westminster.

Describes himself as a serious and genuinely local alternative to the media contest around the best-known candidates. He says he has known and served local communities for decades and would put service before party interests.

Campaigning on jobs, policing, the high street, healthcare, the coast and having a visible constituency MP. He says he does not currently live in Clacton but would become part of the community if elected.

Leader of Freedom Alliance. His published Clacton statement focuses on individual liberty, accountable government, strong local communities, local businesses, cash, digital ID and reducing the influence of party whips.

Standing as an Independent while developing Essex People. His latest statement says he would move to Clacton if elected and proposes an online direct-democracy system in which local members instruct their MP how to vote.

Campaigning for what he calls a New Greater Clacton. Priorities include employment, better buses, quicker ambulance responses, affordable housing, waterfront improvements and reducing crime and shoplifting.

Leader of UK Voice. His Clacton statement focuses on the high street, antisocial behaviour, public services, transport, local businesses, opportunities for young people and community investment.

National leader of the SDP. His campaign themes include migration, the rule of law, investment, energy prices and British control of important national assets.

Former Conservative Member of the European Parliament. He says the by-election should allow Clacton voters to pass judgement on Brexit and begin the process of the UK rejoining the European Union.

Small-business owner, former Conservative association officer and former chairman of Kingsnorth Parish Council. He says he would concentrate on constituency work, regular surgeries and cross-party cooperation.

Business owner, property investor and employer. Her published campaign priorities include financial education, support for entrepreneurs, housing and better value for taxpayers.

Independent candidate campaigning prominently on abolishing inheritance tax. She argues that it taxes previously earned wealth and can place pressure on families, farms and businesses.

A lawyer and campaigner who previously stood as a Conservative candidate in Surrey. During this campaign she has taken part in local hustings and argued that the by-election should focus seriously on Clacton and its residents.

Independent candidate and former Labour adviser. He has taken part in locally organised hustings and has argued that voters wanting a serious alternative should not automatically default to a novelty candidate.

Independent candidate who previously stood as a Conservative candidate in Frinton and as Reform UK's parliamentary candidate in Maldon in 2024. Her current public profile contains limited detailed Clacton-specific policy material.

Independent candidate. A public candidate profile and photo are available, but there is still limited detailed Clacton-specific policy material on the main candidate database.

Campaigning around technology ethics, children's online safety, artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency and cybersecurity, alongside concerns about governance in open-source software communities.

Forward Party candidate with public Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok links. His main candidate profile currently carries limited detailed Clacton-specific policy information.

Independent candidate. A public Facebook profile and candidate photo are now listed, but the main candidate database still contains little detailed policy or background information.

Independent candidate. A candidate photo is available, but there is still very little published campaign or policy information on the main public candidate profile.

Independent candidate. There is currently very little verified public campaign information on the main candidate database, and no candidate photo is listed there.

Independent candidate. The main public candidate profile currently contains very little verified campaign information and does not yet provide a candidate photograph.

Retired carpenter Tom Darwood is standing under the campaign name Joseph 77. His published material links his campaign to the biblical Joseph and says he intends to campaign partly through songs and verse.

Standing as an Independent under the name shown on the ballot. Public material links to a sustainability-focused website, with limited detailed Clacton-specific policy information on the main candidate profile.

Says politics should examine human psychology more deeply. His party describes its mission in very broad terms around individual empowerment, solving problems and fulfilling people's ambitions.

A longstanding Monster Raving Loony candidate. His published Clacton material includes the comic proposal to abolish January and February as a way of cutting winter fuel bills.

A longstanding Monster Raving Loony candidate. His Clacton statement includes comic proposals such as renaming Clacton-on-Sea as Eric and reducing hospital waiting lists by using a smaller font.

His published comic policies include saving the dodo, giving Clacton Pier a seat in the House of Lords and placing toll booths across the English Channel.

An established satirical election character whose campaigns mix comedy, protest politics and deliberately comic manifesto pledges. He has stood in several prominent elections around the country.

Leader of Reform UK and Clacton's MP from 2024 until his resignation in July 2026. He is standing again in the by-election and campaigns through Reform UK, his own website and national media appearances.

Actor, political activist and founder of the Reclaim Party. Reclaim campaigns on patriotism, borders and working-class communities. Fox lives in the neighbouring Colchester district.

Describes himself and his party as nationalist and strongly opposed to immigration. His published statement presents the British Democrats as a nationalist alternative to Reform UK and other candidates.