Applications to register to vote had to be received by
Manchester City Council by 28 January. The Statement of Persons Nominated was published at 5 pm on 29 January 2014. The result was declared at around 2.30am GMT on Friday, 14 February. Mike Kane, a former Manchester councillor and the acting chief executive of Movement for Change, was confirmed as the
Labour Party candidate, on 24 January. In a selection process described as "quick-fire",
London interviews on 22 January produced a short list of five local councillors and ex-councillors: Rosa Battle and Suzannah Reeves of
Manchester City Council, Catherine Hynes and Sophie Taylor of
Trafford Borough, and Mike Kane. The Wythenshawe branch of the
Conservative Party chose Daniel Critchlow, a Trafford-based vicar, on 23 January 2014. The
Liberal Democrats chose a Manchester City councillor, Mary di Mauro, on 26 January 2014. On 24 January 2014, the
British National Party announced Eddy O'Sullivan as its candidate. O'Sullivan had been a candidate in
Salford local elections and stood for the BNP at the
2012 Manchester Central by-election, where his party's share of the vote was reduced. The
UK Independence Party selected John Bickley, 60, a former Labour supporter who grew up in Wythenshawe. Bickley, who runs a mobile app firm, told
The Guardian that he felt Parliament needed to "take responsibility" having "outsourced running of the country to the EU". Bickley added that he felt "Labour had let down the working class" and that Labour's behaviour would mean his former
trade unionist father would be "turning in his grave". The
Green Party selected Nigel Woodcock, a further education lecturer at
The Manchester College. The
Official Monster Raving Loony Party put forward Captain Chaplington-Smythe as its candidate on 25 January 2014. ==Polling==