# Endorsements in the October 2022 Conservative Party leadership election

This is a list of public endorsements for declared candidates for the October 2022 leadership election for the Conservative Party of the United Kingdom.

## Members of Parliament

| No. | Boris Johnson (62) | Penny Mordaunt (27) | Rishi Sunak (197) |
| 1 | Paul Bristow | Derek Thomas | Crispin Blunt |
| 2 | James Duddridge | Bob Seely | Julie Marson |
| 3 | Nadine Dorries | Maria Miller | Richard Holden |
| 4 | Brendan Clarke-Smith | John Lamont | Angela Richardson |
| 5 | Michael Fabricant | Damian Collins | Steve Double |
| 6 | Stephen McPartland | Andrea Leadsom | Kevin Hollinrake |
| 7 | Marco Longhi | Robbie Moore | Jo Gideon |
| 8 | Andrea Jenkyns | Kieran Mullan | John Glen |
| 9 | Andrew Stephenson | Craig Tracey | Simon Hart |
| 10 | Christopher Chope | Nicola Richards | Andrew Bowie |
| 11 | Amanda Milling | Roger Gale | Anthony Mangnall |
| 12 | Shaun Bailey | John Penrose | Dominic Raab |
| 13 | Lia Nici | Caroline Dinenage | John Stevenson |
| 14 | Karl McCartney | Harriett Baldwin | Gary Streeter |
| 15 | Andrew Rosindell | Caroline Ansell | Andrew Murrison |
| 16 | David Morris | Lee Anderson | Craig Williams |
| 17 | Holly Mumby-Croft | Heather Wheeler | Paul Maynard |
| 18 | Peter Bone | Elliot Colburn | Simon Jupp |
| 19 | Jane Hunt | James Davies | James Cartlidge |
| 20 | Scott Benton | Neil Hudson | Bim Afolami |
| 21 | Mark Eastwood | Mary Robinson | Nick Gibb |
| 22 | Jill Mortimer | Marcus Fysh | Maggie Throup |
| 23 | James Cleverly | Tracey Crouch | Alex Chalk |
| 24 | Trudy Harrison | Damian Green | Fay Jones |
| 25 | Richard Drax | Luke Evans | Edward Timpson |
| 26 | Philip Hollobone | Michael Fabricant | Laura Trott |
| 27 | Sheryll Murray | Giles Watling | Huw Merriman |
| 28 | Jacob Rees-Mogg | George Freeman | Laura Farris |
| 29 | James Grundy | | Simon Fell |
| 30 | Kelly Tolhurst | | Helen Whately |
| 31 | Shailesh Vara | | Jonathan Djanogly |
| 32 | Maria Caulfield | | Mark Garnier |
| 33 | Edward Leigh | | Siobhan Baillie |
| 34 | Nigel Adams | | Rehman Chishti |
| 35 | Ian Levy | | Damian Hinds |
| 36 | Henry Smith | | James Morris |
| 37 | Tom Pursglove | | Victoria Prentis |
| 38 | Mark Pritchard | | Guy Opperman |
| 39 | Jane Stevenson | | Robert Jenrick |
| 40 | Gareth Johnson | | Robert Goodwill |
| 41 | Matthew Offord | | Richard Graham |
| 42 | Jonathan Gullis | | Mel Stride |
| 43 | Leo Docherty | | Robin Walker |
| 44 | Ben Wallace | | Claire Coutinho |
| 45 | Caroline Johnson | | Robert Syms |
| 46 | Simon Clarke | | Simon Hoare |
| 47 | Alok Sharma | | Gavin Williamson |
| 48 | Antony Higginbotham | | Liam Fox |
| 49 | Anne-Marie Trevelyan | | Simon Baynes |
| 50 | Daniel Kawczynski | | Bob Neill |
| 51 | Joy Morrissey | | Anthony Browne |
| 52 | Bill Cash | | Gareth Davies |
| 53 | Chris Heaton-Harris | | James Gray |
| 54 | John Whittingdale | | Steve Brine |
| 55 | Ben Everitt | | David TC Davies |
| 56 | Priti Patel | | Mark Harper |
| 57 | Greg Smith | | Robert Halfon |
| 58 | Bob Stewart | | George Eustice |
| 59 | Lee Anderson | | Ruth Edwards |
| 60 | Ben Bradley | | Mike Wood |
| 61 | Sarah Atherton | | Stephen Hammond |
| 62 | Chris Clarkson | | Greg Clark |
| 63 | | | Andrew Jones |
| 64 | | | John Baron |
| 65 | | | Julian Sturdy |
| 66 | | | Nigel Mills |
| 67 | | | James Daly |
| 68 | | | Julian Smith |
| 69 | | | Philip Dunne |
| 70 | | | Mark Logan |
| 71 | | | David Rutley |
| 72 | | | Andrew Bridgen |
| 73 | | | James Wild |
| 74 | | | Gillian Keegan |
| 75 | | | Chris Philp |
| 76 | | | Sajid Javid |
| 77 | | | Lucy Frazer |
| 78 | | | Jonathan Lord |
| 79 | | | Johnny Mercer |
| 80 | | | Duncan Baker |
| 81 | | | Steve Barclay |
| 82 | | | Andrew Percy |
| 83 | | | Andrew Mitchell |
| 84 | | | Stephen Crabb |
| 85 | | | Sally-Ann Hart |
| 86 | | | Rebecca Pow |
| 87 | | | Jeremy Quin |
| 88 | | | Jamie Wallis |
| 89 | | | Oliver Dowden |
| 90 | | | Matt Hancock |
| 91 | | | Tom Tugendhat |
| 92 | | | Alan Mak |
| 93 | | | Tobias Ellwood |
| 94 | | | Mark Menzies |
| 95 | | | Miriam Cates |
| 96 | | | Richard Bacon |
| 97 | | | Martin Vickers |
| 98 | | | Caroline Nokes |
| 99 | | | Selaine Saxby |
| Threshold of 100 MP nominations required to stand ||||
| 100 | | | Robert Largan |
| 101 | | | David Mundell |
| 102 | | | David Simmonds |
| 103 | | | John Howell |
| 104 | | | Philip Davies |
| 105 | | | Iain Stewart |
| 106 | | | Aaron Bell |
| 107 | | | Paul Howell |
| 108 | | | Helen Grant |
| 109 | | | Chris Grayling |
| 110 | | | Peter Bottomley |
| 111 | | | Flick Drummond |
| 112 | | | Fiona Bruce |
| 113 | | | David Johnston |
| 114 | | | Desmond Swayne |
| 115 | | | Oliver Heald |
| 116 | | | Andrew Selous |
| 117 | | | Greg Hands |
| 118 | | | Paul Beresford |
| 119 | | | Graham Stuart |
| 120 | | | David Davis |
| 121 | | | Kemi Badenoch |
| 122 | | | Alun Cairns |
| 123 | | | Tom Hunt |
| 124 | | | Tim Loughton |
| 125 | | | Paul Holmes |
| 126 | | | Greg Knight |
| 127 | | | Daniel Poulter |
| 128 | | | Justin Tomlinson |
| 129 | | | Andrew Lewer |
| 130 | | | Chris Loder |
| 131 | | | Steve Baker |
| 132 | | | Mike Freer |
| 133 | | | Gagan Mohindra |
| 134 | | | Geoffrey Cox |
| 135 | | | Jesse Norman |
| 136 | | | Grant Shapps |
| 137 | | | Mark Pawsey |
| 138 | | | Theresa Villiers |
| 139 | | | Chloe Smith |
| 140 | | | Matt Vickers |
| 141 | | | Stuart Andrew |
| 142 | | | Peter Gibson |
| 143 | | | Will Quince |
| 144 | | | Michelle Donelan |
| 145 | | | Neil O'Brien |
| 146 | | | Suella Braverman |
| 147 | | | Nus Ghani |
| 148 | | | Michael Tomlinson |
| 149 | | | James Heappey |
| 150 | | | Kevin Foster |
| 151 | | | Jerome Mayhew |
| 152 | | | Felicity Buchan |
| 153 | | | Nadhim Zahawi |
| 154 | | | Chris Clarkson |
| 155 | | | David Morris |
| 156 | | | Anna Firth |
| 157 | | | Shailesh Vara |
| 158 | | | Jeremy Hunt |
| 159 | | | Jonathan Gullis |
| 160 | | | Edward Argar |
| 161 | | | Pauline Latham |
| 162 | | | James Duddridge |
| 163 | | | Alex Burghart |
| 164 | | | Leo Docherty |
| 165 | | | James Cleverly |
| 166 | | | Robert Courts |
| 167 | | | Maria Caulfield |
| 168 | | | Scott Mann |
| 169 | | | Priti Patel |
| 170 | | | Michael Gove |
| 171 | | | Louie French |
| 172 | | | Danny Kruger |
| 173 | | | Andrew Stephenson |
| 174 | | | John Whittingdale |
| 175 | | | Mark Spencer |
| 176 | | | Victoria Atkins |
| 177 | | | Robert Buckland |
| 178 | | | Tom Randall |
| Support of more than half of Conservative MPs ||||
| 179 | | | Peter Aldous |
| 180 | | | Simon Clarke |
| 181 | | | Gordon Henderson |
| 182 | | | Mims Davies |
| 183 | | | Andrew Griffith |
| 184 | | | Brandon Lewis |
| 185 | | | Jason McCartney |
| 186 | | | Lucy Allan |
| 187 | | | Richard Fuller |
| 188 | | | Virginia Crosbie |
| 189 | | | Jeremy Wright |
| 190 | | | Royston Smith |
| 191 | | | Chris Heaton-Harris |
| 192 | | | Dean Russell |
| 193 | | | Iain Duncan Smith |
| 194 | | | Amanda Milling |
| 195 | | | Tom Pursglove |
| 196 | | | George Freeman |
| 197 | | | Kate Kniveton |
* ↑ Initially endorsed Jeremy Hunt, then switched to Sunak after Hunt ruled himself out of the leadership contest.
* 1 2 3 Initially endorsed Boris Johnson, then switched to Mordaunt after Johnson ruled himself out of the leadership contest.
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Initially endorsed Boris Johnson, then switched to Sunak after Johnson ruled himself out of the leadership contest.
* ↑ Initially endorsed Penny Mordaunt, then switched to Sunak.

## Peers
### Boris Johnson

* The Lord Cruddas, banker and businessman

### Jeremy Hunt

* The Lord Desai, economist

### Rishi Sunak

* The Lord Ashcroft, deputy party chair (2005–2010)
* The Baroness Davidson of Lundin Links, leader of the Scottish Conservatives (2011–2019)
* The Lord Frost, Chief Brexit Negotiator (2019–2020)
* The Lord Hague of Richmond, Foreign Secretary (2010–2014) and party leader (1997–2001)
* The Lord Howard of Lympne, Home Secretary (1993-1997) and party leader (2003-2005)

## Directly-elected mayors
### Boris Johnson

* Ben Houchen, Mayor of Tees Valley (2017–present)

## Organisations
### Jeremy Hunt

* Bloomberg News

## Individuals
### Penny Mordaunt

* Iain Dale, broadcaster (Independent)

### Rishi Sunak

* Piers Morgan, broadcaster