Next Tory Leader. Which MP is backing whom. | Conservative Home

With four candidates left in the race to become leader of the Conservative Party the next stage of the contest moves to Party Conference in Birmingham.

What follows is a list of candidates and their declared supporters which will be frequently updated and amended.

Dame Priti Patel was knocked out in the first ballot (4/9), Mel Stride in the second (11/9), leaving Tom Tugendhat and James Cleverly joint third on 21 votes, Kemi Badenoch second on 28 and Robert Jenrick in front on 33.

119 votes were cast in that second ballot. 118 in the first. It is understood Rishi Sunak has not voted in either.

We name the four left in the race in alphabetical order and all those who’ve publicly declared for the candidates and the date the MP in question made a statement.

We have also included, for reference, below that list, all those who declared for the two candidates who have been knocked out, at the time they were still in the race and indicated where they have moved their vote if they have said so.

Kemi Badenoch (18)

• Alex Burghart (26/7)
• Julia Lopez (26/7)
• Andrew Griffith (28/7)
• Andrew Bowie (28/7)
• Jesse Norman (30/7)
• Ben Obese-Jecty (12/8)
• Ben Spencer (21/8)
• Gareth Bacon (21/8)
• Nigel Huddleston (28/8)
• Laura Trott (31/8)
• Alan Mak (1/9)
• Chris Philp (1/9)
• Claire Coutinho (2/9)
• Kieran Mullan (3/9)
• Helen Whately (5/9)
• Andrew Snowden (8/9)
• James Cartlidge (9/9)
• Kevin Hollinrake (9/9)

James Cleverly (9)

• Peter Fortune (24/7)
• Simon Hoare (24/7)
• Gagan Mohindra (25/7)
• Charlie Dewhirst (28/7)
• Ashley Fox (28/8)
• Shivani Raja (2/9)
• Blake Stephenson (8/9)
• Alec Shelbrooke (11/9)
• Greg Smith (11/9)

Robert Jenrick (22)

• Danny Kruger (24/7)
• Edward Leigh (25/7)
• Caroline Johnson (25/7)
• Mark Pritchard (28/7)
• Jack Rankin (2/8)
• Esther McVey (2/8)
• John Hayes (2/8)
• Gareth Davies (4/8)
• John Cooper (16/8)
• Matt Vickers (19/8)
• Chris Chope (21/8)
• John Lamont (23/8)
• Mark Francois (30/8)
• Neil O’Brien (31/8)
• Peter Bedford (2/9)
• Ed Argar (2/9)
• Andrew Rosindell (2/9)
• Bradley Thomas (9/9)
• Victoria Atkins (9/9)
• Katie Lam (9/9)
• Lewis Cocking (10/9)
• Desmond Swayne (12/9)

Tom Tugendhat (6)

• Nick Timothy (28/7)
• Patrick Spencer (28/7)
• Karen Bradley (29/7)
• Neil Shastri-Hunt (29/7)
• James Wild (30/7)
• Harriet Cross (19/8)

This list accounts for 55 of the 121 MPs in the Conservative parliamentary party.

The third and fourth ballots which will end with a final two candidates take place in the week commencing the 7th of October 2024

The final two will be voted on by the membership of the Conservative party. The result will be announced on 2nd November 2024.

For Reference:

Of the two candidates knocked out in the first and second ballot there follows a list of those who declared for them before those ballots were held.

Priti Patel (5)

• Alec Shelbrooke (23/7) Now for JC
• Greg Smith (25/7).        Now for JC
• Saqib Bhatti (28/7)
• Andrew Snowden (28/7) Now for KB
• Wendy Morton (28/8)

Mel Stride (7)

• Mark Garnier (27/7)
• George Freeman (28/7)
• Desmond Swayne (28/7)  Now for RJ
• Jerome Mayhew (28/7)
• David Reed (29/7)
• Mims Davies (23/8)
• Andrew Murrison (25/8)