
Polls open today for voters in Batley and Spen to select a successor to popular Labour MP Jo Cox who was killed earlier this year.
Mrs Cox died in June after being shot and stabbed shortly before she was due to hold a constituency surgery.
Former Soap actress Tracy Brabin is standing for the Labour Party, but the other main parties are not fielding candidates out of respect for Mrs Cox.
There remain though ten candidates in all for voters to choose from and the other nine representing smaller parties or running as independents are:
- Corbyn Anti - English Independence;
- Jack Buckby - Liberty GB;
- Richard Charles Edmonds - National Front;
- David Furness - British National Party;
- Therese Hirst - English Democrats:
- Waqas Ali Khan - Independent;
- Garry Mervyn Kitchin - Independent;
- Ankit Love - One Love Party;
- Henry Edmund Burke Mayhew - Independent.
Votes will be counted after the polls close at 10pm at Cathedral House in Huddersfield and a result is expected in the early hours of the morning.
When Mrs Cox claimed the seat in 2015, she did so with a majority of 6,051.