from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests

req = requests.session()


def getCandidateList():
    candidateURLs = []
    url = "http://vote.labour.org.uk/all-candidates"
    r = req.get(url).text
    soup = BeautifulSoup(r)
    candidateList = soup.find("div", {"class": "candidate-results"})
    for candidate in candidateList.findAll("li"):
        candidateURL = candidate.find("a", href=True)["href"]
        if candidateURL[0] == "/": candidateURL = candidateURL[1:]
        candidateURLs.append("http://vote.labour.org.uk/" + candidateURL)
    return candidateURLs