EYES will be on the West Oxfordshire ward of Witney during the May 7 general election count to see whether Prime Minister David Cameron successfully retains his seat for a third term of office.

Regarded a 'safe' Conservative seat, Mr Cameron has held Witney since 2001, a constituency which includes the Cotswold town of Chipping Norton where Mr Cameron has a home, and was elected leader of the Conservative party in 2005. He became Prime Minister in the 2010 elections.

Those hoping to topple him from that seat include a consultant cancer specialist, a heavy goods vehicle driver, a professor and a candidate on his seventh attempt to get into parliament.

Duncan Enright, LabourCotswold Journal:

Mr Enright represents Witney East on town and district councils. He lives in Witney with his wife and two children and is a governor at their school, Wood Green. He owns a small scientific publishing business. He has fought to make politics more open, to improve the A40 and NHS, and for better services and equal opportunities for all residents.

Andy Graham, Liberal Democrats.Cotswold Journal:

Andy Graham has worked in education ever since he qualified as a teacher at the age of 23 years old and is a published playwright and children's writer.

"I set up my own business, the internationally acclaimed Snap Theatre Company in Hertfordshire which as director, ran successfully for 26 years completing 120 projects for young people in schools and reaching over three million children producing literally classics to contemporary work and addressing personal, health and social education issues in schools.

"My education work includes training teacher's in Romania, Bangladesh, Rwanda as well as the UK.

"I have been a councillor for 16 years in East Hertfordshire District Council and 9 years on the local council where I also served as Mayor before moving to Churchill, near Chipping Norton.

"I have a track record of getting things done working, protecting the green belt ensuring schools and houses are built on appropriate sites with infrastructure, petitioned to save hospitals and overseen an arts complex project for the community to completion."

Simon Strutt, UKIPCotswold Journal: Mr Strutt asks: "Does your local MP represent your views – on the EU, on immigration, on local building plans and on local transport? The voters of West Oxfordshire have a rare opportunity to create a shock-wave on May 7, by supporting UKIP."

He says his party offers a fair EU referendum, to sort the A40 'logjams' once and for all and stop plans to build 10,500 houses across the rural constituency.

Stuart MacDonald, Green.Cotswold Journal:

Stuart Macdonald is a local candidate, having lived in Witney for over 20 years. He has a wife and four children and works as a professor in a management school. He is also the management school’s union representative. He says the country desperately needs the radical change only the Greens offer.

"Massive inequality divides the community, with the super rich more entrenched than ever. There is no trickle down of their wealth. The common good has been sacrificed to individual greed, and our children suffer most. There is nowhere better to say this than in David Cameron’s own constituency, where inequality is huge – and politely ignored."

Colin Bex, Wessex RegionalistsCotswold Journal:

Colin Bex says he has been campaigning for forty years to recast the "fatally flawed, irredeemably corrupt Westminster establishment government system".

He has stood for parliament six times since 1974 to secure an autonomous Regional Assembly for the eight-county Wessex region with powers similar to those which Scotland will acquire, but with ‘bottom up’ majority democratic power vested at ground level throughout the parishes of the region.

This is his second campaign for Witney.

Bobby Smith, Give Me Back ElmoCotswold Journal:

He is a 33-year-old HGV driver. He says: "I think the people of Witney deserve a full time MP and also to try and reform family law.

I went through the family courts for three-and-a-half years and at the end of it realised that not only do fathers have absolutely no rights in law but in fact the whole system needs reforming for everyone involved, including mothers. The practice of conviction on the balance of probability in a secret court has a negative effect on thousands of children, parents and grandparents.

Excluding good fathers from children's lives is one of the greatest atrocities of our time and it has to stop.

Clive Peedell, National Health Action.Cotswold Journal:

Dr Clive Peedell is a consultant cancer specialist and co-founder and co-leader of the National Health Action Party. He was born and grew up in Oxfordshire, but now works in Middlesbrough. His is married with two children aged 11 and eight. He formed the party in response to the coalition government's top down reorganisation of the NHS. He strongly opposes the increasing commercialisation and privatisation of NHS services, and the damaging effects of austerity and wealth inequality on wider society. As leader of the National Health Action Party he is standing in Witney to hold David Cameron to account for his actions over his Government's damaging NHS reforms.

Chris Tompson, Independent; details not yet supplied.

Vivien Saunders, Reduce VAT in Sport; details not yet supplied.

Nathan Handley, details not yet supplied

Deek Jackson, Land Party; details not yet supplied.