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Full list of General Election candidates published

The general election is on June 8.
The general election is on June 8.

The starting gun has officially been fired on the general election campaign with all of the candidates vying for your vote formally named.

A total of 56 prospective MPs will battle it out for the chance to represent the north and north-east in the next Westminster parliament.

Parties had less time than normal to select their contenders following Theresa May’s decision to call a snap election last month.

The deadline for nominations for the June 8 poll was 4pm yesterday.

Prominent names such as Alex Salmond, Angus Robertson and Alistair Carmichael are joined on the lists by others who will be less well known.

All of the 12 elected as MPs in 2015 – 11 SNP candidates and one Liberal Democrat – are standing again.

Both of these parties, as well as Labour and the Conservatives, are fielding candidates in every north and north-east constituency.

Additionally, there are two candidates for the Scottish Christian Party, one for Something New, one for Ukip and four independents.

Meanwhile, the Scottish Greens have confirmed they will only fight three seats across of the whole of Scotland, none of which are in the region.

The SNP, which won all bar three Scottish constituencies two years ago, is widely expected to triumph again north of the border.

But recent opinion polls suggest the Conservatives may take seats off the nationalists, with one predicting the Tories could win up to 12 constituencies in Scotland, which would be an increase of 11.

In terms of the north and north-east, the Tories are targeting West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, which is third on their Scottish list.

Fourth and fifth are Moray and Banff and Buchan where support for Brexit in last year’s EU referendum was high.

Senior party figures also believe Aberdeen South and Gordon are in play.

The Lib Dems, who only returned one MP in Scotland in 2015 – Mr Carmichael – also hope to make gains in the area.

Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross is fourth on their Scottish target list, followed by Ross, Skye and Lochaber, the late Charles Kennedy’s former seat, and then Gordon.

Labour also only won a single seat two years ago – Ian Murray in Edinburgh South – and the party faces an uphill struggle to improve its fortunes this time around.