Full by-elections candidates list

Full list of candidates standing in Thursday's by-elections.

Preston

Greg Beaman, UK Independence Party. Charity support worker.

Terence Cartwright, Lancashire Socialist Alliance.

Bill Chadwick, Liberal Democrat Party. Councillor on Preston and Lancashire councils. Formerly worked for the Equal Opportunities Commission.

David Franklin-Braid, Battle of Britain Christian Alliance Party.

Peter Garrett, Preston Alliance - Christian Peoples Alliance.

Mark Hendrick, Labour Party. Former MEP for Lancashire Central. An electronics engineer and college lecturer. Former Salford city councillor.

Christian Jackson, British National Party.

Richard Merrick, Green Party. Part-time theatre nurse at Royal Preston Hospital.

Graham O'Hare, Conservative Party. Sales executive for a plastics company.

West Bromwich West

Adrian Bailey, Labour Party. Deputy leader, Sandwell borough council. Co-operative Party national organiser for the Midlands region.

Karen Bissell, Conservative Party. Deputy leader, Conservative Group on Sandwell borough council. Lawyer in the commercial property department for a Birmingham law firm.

Nicholas Griffin, British National Party.

Jon Oakton, UK Independence Party. Former Referendum Party candidate for Birmingham Edgbaston at the 1997 general election.

Sadie Smith, Liberal Democrat Party. Leader, Lib Dem group on Sandwell borough council. Former adviser to Age Concern on hospital discharge and other health policy matters.

Glasgow Anniesland: Westminster

Dorothy Luckhurst, Conservative Party. Freelance editor. Stood for Clydebank and Milngavie at the 1999 Scottish Parliament elections.

William Lyden, Family Action Movement.

Charlie McCarthy, Scottish Socialist Party.

Chris McGinty, Liberal Democrat Party. Management consultant. Stood in Anniesland in 1997.

John Robertson, Labour Party. Donald Dewar's former election agent; chairman of the local constituency Labour party.

Grant Thoms, Scottish National Party. Community Worker. Had previously been selected to fight the Anniesland constituency at the forthcoming Westminster general election.

Glasgow Anniesland: Scottish Parliament

Bill Butler, Labour Party. Secretary of Labour group on Glasgow city council; involved in Campaign for Socialism.

Tom Chalmers, Scottish National Party. Glasgow solicitor. Member of the SNP's national executive committee.

Judith Fryer, Liberal Democrat Party. Press officer, University of Strathclyde. Scottish Parliamentary candidate in 1999 for Glasgow Baillieston.

Rosie Kane, Scottish Socialist Party.

Dr Kate Pickering, Conservative Party. Glasgow GP. Contested Glasgow Ballieston and was No. 3 on the Glasgow list in the 1999 Scottish Parliament elections.

Murdo Ritchie, Socialist Labour Party.

Alastair Whitelaw, Scottish Green Party.