Labour candidate John Cowan has been suspended after boasting about his sexual exploits online.
He also admitted illegally paying his cleaner cash-in-hand and said he would not want his children to marry a Muslim.
In the 2005 General Election, the gap between Conservative and Jonathan Chatfield was just over 8,000 and the Labour Party came in third place, but with just under 12,000 votes.
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