VOTERS in Batley and Spen will go to the polls tomorrow to select a successor to Labour MP Jo Cox who was killed earlier this year.

Mrs Cox died in June after being shot and stabbed shortly before she was due to hold a constituency surgery at Birstall library.

There are a total of ten candidates standing in the by-election, with the main parties agreeing not to contest the seat out of respect for the 41-year-old.

Former Coronation Street actress Tracy Brabin is standing for the Labour Party, as well as nine others representing smaller parties or running as independents.

The candidates are:

  • Corbyn Anti - English Independence;
  • Tracy Lynn Brabin - Labour Party;
  • Jack Buckby - Liberty GB;
  • Richard Charles Edmonds - National Front;
  • David Furness - British National Party;
  • Therese Hirst - English Democrats:
  • Waqas Ali Khan - Independent;
  • Garry Mervyn Kitchin - Independent;
  • Ankit Love - One Love Party;
  • Henry Edmund Burke Mayhew - Independent.

The by-election takes place tomorrow with polling booths opening in the constituency from 7am to 10pm.

Votes will be counted after the polls close at Cathedral House in Huddersfield and a result is expected in the early hours of the morning.

The number of people eligible to vote in the by-election is close to 80,000.

When Mrs Cox claimed the seat in 2015, she did so with 21,820 votes, some 43 per cent of the votes cast.

She also had a majority of 6,051 over the next candidate.

The Batley and Spen seat has been vacant since Mrs Cox’s death four months ago, although her constituency office has remained open in order to continue helping people until her successor is in place.

Constituency staff have been working under the supervision of neighbouring Labour MP, Holly Lynch, who represents Halifax.

A by-election also takes place in Witney the same day as the Batley and Spen poll, after Conservative former Prime Minister David Cameron resigned as an MP early in September.