Candidates for 2025 Internal Elections
The LGBT+ Liberal Democrats are pleased to see 150 candidates standing for the more than 60 positions available in our party's triennial internal elections. Many of these candidates are members and allies of LGBT+ Liberal Democrats.
With a very long ballot to consider, we encourage all voting members to give the following candidates preference votes -
Key:
LGBT+ Lib Dems members we recommend giving top preferences for.
Candidates known to us to have made positive, proactive statements of support for LGBT+ rights, particularly trans+ rights, who we recommend giving high preferences for.
President and Vice President:
Prue Bray, Josh Babarinde
Victoria Collins, Kamran Hussain
Federal Board:
Prue Bray, Adrian Hyyrylainen-Trett, Janey Little, Neil Fawcett, Hannah Kitching
Lucy Nethsingha
Federal Board Councillor Rep:
Prue Bray, Gareth Epps
Lucy Nethsingha, Sudhakar Achwal
Federal Council:
Charley Hasted, Adrian Hyyrylainen-Trett, Caron Lindsay, Aaron Williams, Fraser Graham, April Preston, James Baillie, Matt Downey, Richard Flowers, Victor Chamberlain, Andrew Brown, Archie McCann, Edward Sainsbury, Charles Edward Lord
Donna Harris, Joe Toovey, Janice Turner, Sarah Cheung Johnson, Abrial Jerram, Nichola Martin, Edna Murphy, Adrian Van de Weyer, Jenny Wilkinson, Richard Cole
Federal Council Councillor Rep:
Andrew Brown
Aidan Van de Weyer, Tim Pickstone, Gareth Roberts, Sudhakar Achwal
FPC:
Rebecca Jones, Brandon Masih, James Baillie
Ulysse Abbate, Laura Gordon, Mohsin Khan, Lucy Nethsingha, Janice Turner, Sarah Dobson, Marcus Foster, Richard Cole, Imad Ahmed
FPC Councillor Rep:
Daniel Oliver, Rory Clark
FCC:
Jennie Rigg, Charley Hasted, Lucas North, Fraser Graham, Nicholas da Costa, Gareth Epps, Hannah Kitching, Simon Lepori
Callum Robertson, Joe Toovey, Julie Adnams-Hatch, Helen Cross, James Gurling, Eleanor Kelly
FIRC:
Adrian Hyyrylainen-Trett, Rowan Fitton, Larry Ngan
Hannah Bettsworth, David Chalmers, Antoine Godbert, Kai Pischke, Eleanor Rylance
ALDE Delegation:
Adrian Hyyrylainen-Trett, Helen Belcher, Rowan Fitton, Arthur Wu
Hannah Bettsworth, David Chalmers, Antoine Godbert, Chloe Hutchinson, Eleanor Kelly, Eleanor Rylance
You can read our statement about the diversity quota rules for these elections here.