A woman who calls herself "a priestess of Avalon and an ancestral healer" is hoping to cause an upset in the election battle in the Wells Constituency, which includes Shepton Mallet.

Susie Quatermass of the newly-formed Motherworld Party is one of five candidates hoping to secure the public's support when they go to the polls on December 12.

The seat will also a rematch of the 2015 and 2017 contests, with Liberal Democrat challenger Tessa Munt hoping to unseat the incumbent Conservative candidate James Heappey.

Labour and a local independent candidate make up the remaining candidates, with the Green Party not standing this time around.

The full list of candidates for the seat has been published after the deadline for nominations passed at 4pm on Thursday (November 14).

The candidates standing are as follows:

Dave Dobbs (Independent)

Kama McKenzie (Labour)

Susie Quatermass (Motherworld Party)

Ms Quatermass has managed Goddess Temple Gifts in Glastonbury for the past six years.

Ms Munt – who currently represents Wells on Somerset County Council – won the seat by 800 votes in 2010, but was defeated by Mr Heappey in 2015.

In their 2017 rematch, both candidates saw their share of the vote rise – but Mr Heappey held on with a slightly smaller majority.

Posting on Twitter on November 7, Mr Heappey said: "The message in Cheddar is crystal clear. People are backing Boris to get Brexit done."

In a post on her official Instagram account on Thursday (November 14), Ms Munt said she was "the only candidate who can beat the Conservatives here".

She said: "Decemnber 12 is your opportunity to elect a true voice for Wells. Politics has been at a standstill for the past three-and-a-half years.

"For too long our politicians have cared more about staying in power than staying true to the needs of the people they represent."

Under the Unite to Remain pact, the Lib Dems, Greens and Plaid Cymru will not compete against each other in 60 target seats; instead, the party out of the three deemed most likely to take each seat will run for election.

In Somerset, the Greens have agreed to stand aside in both Wells and Taunton Deane.

Labour candidate Kama McKenzie said people should not trust Ms Munt considering her party's record during the coalition government of 2010-15.

She told Channel 4 News on Thursday (November 14): "I completely understand people's passion when it comes to getting the Tories out – I think everybody feels that way because we know the impact and the devastation caused by them.

"But when the Liberal Democrats were in power here before, they voted alongside [the Conservatives on] a lot of the cuts to welfare, a lot of the cuts to local authority funding – there's not much difference between the two [of them]."

Mr Dobbs previously stood for the Birthday Party in the Bristol mayoral elections in 2012, but came last out of 15 candidates with less than 0.5 per cent of the vote.