The 38 seats in England yet to select a Conservative Parliamentary candidate

• Ashfield
• Ashton-Under-Lyne
• Barnsley Central
• Barnsley East
• Bishop Auckland

• Blaydon
• Bolton South-East
• Bootle
• Burnley
• Charnwood

• Copeland
• Dagenham and Rainham
• Denton and Reddish
• Don Valley
• Doncaster Central

• Doncaster North
• Fareham
• Faversham and Mid-Kent
• Gateshead
• Hemsworth

• Islington North
• Islington South
• Jarrow
• Hull East
• Knowsley

• Leeds North-West
• Leigh
• Makerfield
• North Dorset
• North Tyneside

• Penistone and Stocksbridge
• Scunthorpe
• Sheffield Brightside
• Sheffield Central
• South Shields

• Stockport
• Wallasey
• Wigan

• Guido Fawkes today cited a figure of 97 seats within the UK without a candidate – 79 if Northern Ireland is subtracted.

• He cited and linked to the original research by Peter Botting and Anthony Gearing.

• As I wrote this morning, Downing Street and CCHQ’s gaze is fixed on the 40/40.  One source I spoke to said that number of seats without a candidate “is very high for this point in the cycle”.

• The seats I list above are as recently given to the Party Board.

Midnight update: A senior Conservative source said: “Since the Board papers went out, we’ve also selected Ashfield, Bishop Auckland and Copeland – and we’re selecting Charnwood tonight.”