Mid Bedfordshire by-election: Polls closed with result due later

Polling stations across the Mid Bedfordshire area opened at 07:00

Polling stations have closed as voters in Mid Bedfordshire wait to find out who will be their new MP after the resignation of Nadine Dorries.

Voting in the by-election has taken place after Ms Dorries, the serving Tory MP, stood down in the summer.

Thirteen candidates have stood, representing major and minor parties, and two independents.

Counting is taking place at the council offices in Chicksands with the result expected in the early hours of Friday.

The candidates in alphabetic order are:

• Festus Akinbusoye - Conservative

• Sid Cordle - Christian Peoples Alliance

• Dave Holland - Reform UK

• Emma Holland-Lindsay - Liberal Democrat

• Ann Kelly - Monster Raving Loony Party

• Prince Ankit Love, Emperor of India - independent

• Gareth Mackey - independent

• Chris Rooney - Mainstream

• Cade Sibley - Green Party

• Alistair Strathern - Labour

• Alberto Thomas - Heritage

• Alan Victor - True and Fair

• Antonio Vitiello - English Democrat

A by-election has also been taking place in Tamworth in Staffordshire following the resignation of Conservative MP Chris Pincher.

• Live updates: Reporting from the counts in Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth