Wakefield by-election

11 hours agoLabour has won the Wakefield by-election with 13166 votes - a majority of 4925 - taking the traditional Red Wall seat back from the Conservatives. Labour open as short-priced favourites.

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. 16 hours agoThe polls closed in the hotly anticipated Wakefield by election at 10pm on Thursday July 23 and the votes are now being counted in the citys Thornes Park stadium. 9 hours agoElection 2019 results Wakefield On that occasion Conservatives won 473 per cent of the vote Labour 398 per cent the Brexit Party 61. The two seats in West Yorkshire and Devon were won by the.

Polls have officially opened for the by-elections in Wakefield and in Tiverton and Honiton. The closures reduced the city from more than 50000 manufacturing and coal industry jobs in 1981 to just 19000 in 2019. As Wakefield faces a by-election this month the fall-out from the closures which brought deprivation hardship and years of unemployment to the borough will be one of the issues facing the candidates.

But on Thursday the prime minister will face two critical tests by the voters who really matter. Defeat for the Tories would be laid firmly at the door of Boris Johnsons. Wakefield is a Red Wall seat where 62 per cent of.

Labour has won the Wakefield by-election to regain the West Yorkshire seat it lost to the Conservatives at the 2019 General Election. He has now been jailed. By election results 2022.

Simon Lightwood defeated Tory candidate Nadeem Ahmed by 4925. The election is due to be held on 23 June. Wakefield in West Yorkshire was part of Labours red wall which crumbled to the Conservatives in the 2019 general election.

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16 hours agoTurnout in the Wakefield by-election was 3909 per cent while 523 per cent of Tiverton and Honitons electorate cast their votes. If Keir Starmer wants an ideal practice run for a general election this is it. Mary Creaghs five-percentage point majority was replaced by a seven-point Tory one.

The Conservatives won Wakefield from Labour at the 2019 general election the first time the seat had elected a Tory since 1931. Wakefield a former industrial town in the North of England is a different proposition. The hotly-anticipated poll comes after former MP Imran Ahmed Khan resigned after he was convicted of sexually assaulting a teenage boy in 2008.

Click to Refresh the page and keep up-to-date with the live results. Sir Keir Starmer knows Labour needs to win it back in next weeks by. Wakefield was held by Labour for more than 87 years before the Conservatives took the seat in 2019 with a majority of 3358.

NHS worker Simon Lightwood will now represent. 0146 22062022 - Not all results are in. Wakefield By-Election Odds.

These are the candidates. Once the bet is settled get a 10 free fixed odds bet plus a 5 free Total Goals football spread bet. Wakefield and Tiverton and Honiton both Conservative-held have come under serious threat from Labour and the Liberal Democrats respectively.

1 day agoThe polls have opened it todays Wakefield by election as voters in the West Yorkshire constituency decide who should be there next MP. Fifteen candidates have been confirmed to stand for election in Wakefield after former Conservative MP Imran Ahmad Khan resigned. 1 day agoThe by-election in Wakefield was called when former MP Imran Ahmad Khan resigned after being jailed following a conviction for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy.

Polling stations are open from 7am to. Sir Keir was in the Yorkshire constituency just a. By-elections for the governing party are rarely plain sailing but even so - the recent history for Boris Johnson has been rather choppy waters.

Keir Starmer hailed Wakefield as the birthplace of the next Labour government as he seized on the by-election win to stabilise his leadership. The second 10 free fixed odds bet and second 5 free Total Goals football spread bet will be credited 24 hours later. He stood down after he was convicted of sexually assaulting a 15.

Now the Tories will have to defend a so-called red wall seat gained in 2019 and the bookies do not expect them to do so. 21 hours agoTwo key by-elections in different corners of the country have been fought with great intensity by the opposition parties. With 15 names on the ballot voters faced a choice between all the major English political parties plus numerous smaller parties and two independent candidates.

16 hours agoThe by-elections are seen as a test for Boris Johnson the prime minister and represent an opportunity for Sir Keir Starmers Labour and Sir Ed Daveys Lib Dems to win seats Geraldine Scott. A pair of byelections.

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