SOUTH West Surrey Conservatives were due to announce their new parliamentary candidate to replace current MP Virginia Bottomley, at a meeting of the association on Wednesday evening.
There are believed to be four prospective candidates in the running, none of them women.
The Herald has learned that the winning candidate is expected to be chosen from two London-based men, Mark Page and Tim Charlesworth, and two people with local connections, Jeremy Hunt from Shere, near Guildford, a former public schoolboy from Charterhouse, and Mark Hudson. All are believed to be aged between 30 and 40.
Somewhere between 300 and 400 members of the association were thought to be likely to turn out for the final vote.
Last month, during the run-up to the final selection process, somebody claiming to be a Liberal Democrat phoned The Herald and said a member of the selection panel had been kicked off the panel for asking awkward questions on the eruo and the single currency.
The Herald was told that during interviews with prospective candidates, questions on Europe had caused friction and the long process to find a candidate could have to start again from scratch.
While the chairman of the local association Warren Lister later confirmed that "someone had left the committee", he defended the selection process as "working within party rules".
More than 100 candidates including a number of women were believed to have put their names forward for selection.