General Election 2024: All you need to know about the Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross constituency
A general election is due to take place on July 4, 2024. The Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross constituency has been expanded since the last election in 2019.
Liberal Democrat Jamie Stone is the incumbent candidate. He has a majority of just 204 votes over the SNP.
The candidates standing in this seat in the 2024 election are:
• Lucy Beattie – SNP
• Steve Chisholm – Alba
• Fiona Fawcett - Conservative
• Eva Kestner – Labour
• Sandra Skinner – Reform UK
• Jamie Stone – Liberal Democrat
• Anne Thomas – Green
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Make your vote count
In order to vote in the election, you will need to be registered to vote with the Electoral Commission. If you are not already registered, you can do that at https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote
A new change in the law means that if you are voting in person at a polling station for this election you will need to bring along photo ID, such as a passport or driving licence, older persons or disabled persons bus pass, or Young Scot card.
More information about the types of acceptable identification can be found at https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/voting-and-elections/voter-id/accepted-forms-photo-id
If you do not have any of the acceptable ID, you can apply for a Voter Authority Certificate. The deadline to apply for a Voter Authority Certificate to vote in the general election on July 4 is 5pm on Wednesday, June 26.
Postal and proxy voting
The deadline to apply for a postal vote in the general election is 5pm on Wednesday, June 19. You must also be registered to vote by 11:59pm on Tuesday, June 18.
You can apply to vote by post at https://www.gov.uk/apply-postal-vote
If you know that you won’t be able to get to the polling station on polling day, you can ask someone you trust to cast your vote on your behalf. This is called a proxy vote and the person casting your vote is often referred to as your proxy.
The person voting on your behalf can either go to your polling station to cast your vote, or can apply to vote on your behalf by post.
You can apply online to nominate a proxy at https://www.gov.uk/apply-proxy-vote
• More information on voting is available at https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/voting-and-elections. If further advice is required email ero@highland.gov.uk or call 0800 393 783.
All in-person voters are reminded to check their poll card carefully when they receive it. It will provide details of which constituency the person is voting in and where they need to go to cast their vote on polling day.
