Two-thirds of this latest tranche come with a caveat that applicants may be deselected if the boundary review goes ahead.
Concluding our ConservativeHome series on the key contests in each region or nation.
The last of our profiles looks at a region that witnessed another Liberal Democrat extinction event and the undoing of the People’s Army.
Our whistle-stop tour heads to the South East, where the Tories and Labour are fighting it out and two minor parties have everything at stake.
Health is a key issue at local as well as national level, and 11 of these troubled institutions are in Conservative-held seats.