We contacted all of the candidates vying for your vote to be the next MP for the Glastonbury and Somerton constituency, asking each of them the same questions. We've taken their responses exactly as they were sent to us - so you know where each of the candidates stand, to help you decide who to vote for.

Here's their responses to the question:

Please tell us a bit about yourself and your background. What is your relationship with Glastonbury and Somerton? How long have you been connected to this area, and in what capacities?

Jon Cousins (Green Party):

I was born in Somerset and have always lived and worked in the South West. I moved to Glastonbury over twenty years ago. When I was younger, I did labouring jobs, but since the late 1990s, I have worked in education and the community-based 'VCSE' sector – and it was my work with community 'time bank' projects that brought me to Glastonbury. I am passionate about community and have helped establish a number of local groups, charities, and social enterprises, including Avalon Community Energy, Plotgate Community Farm, and the Glastonbury Information Centre.

I am currently a Board Member of the Glastonbury Town Deal, and work as a Project Lead with the National Lottery's Big Local programme.

I joined the Ecology Party in 1981 – before it changed its name to the Green Party – and have been a 'Green' Town Councillor in Glastonbury since 2011 and a Mendip District Councillor from 2019-23. I have had the huge privilege and honour of being Mayor of Glastonbury four times.

Sarah Dyke (Liberal Democrats):

I'm the Liberal Democrat candidate for the new seat of Glastonbury and Somerton and I overturned a 19,000 vote Conservative majority to become the MP for Somerton and Frome in July 2023. I grew up locally on my family farm, I live in the constituency, and I can trace my farming family back more than 250 years in the area. After studying Business and Agricultural Marketing at Harper Adams University, I spent several years working in London before moving back to the West Country to manage a grant funding programme which delivered millions of pounds of regeneration investment into Somerset and the surrounding areas. I continue to serve as a councillor and was previously Somerset Council's Executive Lead for Environment and Climate Change.

Hal Hooberman (Labour):



I am from the new Glastonbury and Somerton constituency, which both Street and Glastonbury are in. I was born at Yeovil Hospital, grew up and went to state school in Bruton which is in the east of the new constituency, and my family is here. I grew up visiting, playing football, and shopping in both Glastonbury and Street. My uncle lives between Glastonbury and Street whilst my dad ran a bar in the Avalon Field at the festival. I love where I come from - I will always put it first. I work for a Labour Member of Parliament, working day in day out to support constituents and challenge this rotten Conservative Government on their demonisation of minorities, sky-high taxes, and our broken public services.

Tom Carter (Reform UK):

No response received

Faye Purbrick (Conservative)

No response received