Two candidates have now declared their intention to stand for election to the House of Keys this September.

Keiran Hannifin’s declaration to stand for Middle comes after Sarah Maltby’s announcement earlier this month that she would be standing for Douglas South for the Manx Labour Party.

All 24 seats in Tynwald’s lower house will be contested when the public heads to the polls on September 23.

Liberal Vannin has set its sights on achieving the party’s best electoral performance in its history later this year. Three candidates were elected in the last election.

One, Julie Edge, later resigned from the party, while Kate Costain retired last year.

Party chairman Paul Weatherall said: ’We’re going to do our best to improve on what we did at the last Tynwald elections. Our goal is to repeat or better that performance. If we can manage to field more candidates than that we will but we’re aiming for a steady improvement and getting new MHKs in to support our existing MHK Lawrie Hooper.’

The party hopes to announce local authority election candidates in March and potential general election candidates after that.

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