Blog

  • CONSTITUENCY RESULT : Edinburgh South West

    Candidate name Party Gender Number of votes Share (%) Change vs. 2017 for party (percentage points)
    Joanna Cherry Scottish National Party Female 24,830 47.6% +12.0
    Callum Laidlaw Conservative Male 12,848 24.6% -8.7
    Sophie Cooke Labour Female 7,478 14.3% -12.4
    Tom Inglis Liberal Democrat Male 4,971 9.5% +5.2
    Ben Parker Green Male 1,265 2.4% 0.0
    David Ballantine Brexit Party Male 625 1.2% 0.0
    Mev Brown Social Democratic Party Male 114 0.2% 0.0

     

    Election statistics
    Majority
    Votes 11,982
    Percent 23.0%
    Rank (1 = highest %) 333
    Turnout
    Constituency 70.9%
    Region 68.1%
    UK 67.3%
    Constituency in 2017 69.4%
    Size of electorate 73,501
    Valid votes cast 52,131
  • CONSTITUENCY RESULT : Edinburgh South

    Candidate name Party Gender Number of votes Share (%) Change vs. 2017 for party (percentage points)
    Ian Murray Labour Male 23,745 47.7% -7.2
    Catriona MacDonald Scottish National Party Female 12,650 25.4% +3.0
    Nick Cook Conservative Male 8,161 16.4% -3.3
    Alan Beal Liberal Democrat Male 3,819 7.7% +4.8
    Kate Nevens Green Female 1,357 2.7% 0.0

     

    Election statistics
    Majority
    Votes 11,095
    Percent 22.3%
    Rank (1 = highest %) 337
    Turnout
    Constituency 75.1%
    Region 68.1%
    UK 67.3%
    Constituency in 2017 74.1%
    Size of electorate 66,188
    Valid votes cast 49,732
  • CONSTITUENCY RESULT : Edinburgh North and Leith

    Candidate name Party Gender Number of votes Share (%) Change vs. 2017 for party (percentage points)
    Deidre Brock Scottish National Party Female 25,925 43.7% +9.7
    Gordon Munro Labour and Co-operative Male 13,117 22.1% -9.1
    Iain McGill Conservative Male 11,000 18.5% -8.7
    Bruce Wilson Liberal Democrat Male 6,635 11.2% +6.6
    Steve Burgess Green Male 1,971 3.3% +0.3
    Robert Speirs Brexit Party Male 558 0.9% 0.0
    Heather Astbury Renew Female 138 0.2% 0.0

     

    Election statistics
    Majority
    Votes 12,808
    Percent 21.6%
    Rank (1 = highest %) 350
    Turnout
    Constituency 73.0%
    Region 68.1%
    UK 67.3%
    Constituency in 2017 71.2%
    Size of electorate 81,336
    Valid votes cast 59,344
  • CONSTITUENCY RESULT : Edinburgh East

    Candidate name Party Gender Number of votes Share (%) Change vs. 2017 for party (percentage points)
    Tommy Sheppard Scottish National Party Male 23,165 48.4% +5.9
    Sheila Gilmore Labour Female 12,748 26.7% -8.0
    Eleanor Price Conservative Female 6,549 13.7% -4.9
    Jill Reilly Liberal Democrat Female 3,289 6.9% +2.6
    Claire Miller Green Female 2,064 4.3% 0.0

     

    Election statistics
    Majority
    Votes 10,417
    Percent 21.8%
    Rank (1 = highest %) 346
    Turnout
    Constituency 68.9%
    Region 68.1%
    UK 67.3%
    Constituency in 2017 66.0%
    Size of electorate 69,424
    Valid votes cast 47,815
  • CONSTITUENCY RESULT : Eddisbury

    Candidate name Party Gender Number of votes Share (%) Change vs. 2017 for party (percentage points)
    Edward Timpson Conservative Male 30,095 56.8% -0.1
    Terry Savage Labour Male 11,652 22.0% -11.6
    Antoinette Sandbach Liberal Democrat Female 9,582 18.1% +12.6
    Louise Jewkes Green Female 1,191 2.2% +0.7
    Andrea Allen UK Independence Party Female 451 0.9% -1.3

     

    Election statistics
    Majority
    Votes 18,443
    Percent 34.8%
    Rank (1 = highest %) 188
    Turnout
    Constituency 71.9%
    Region 65.6%
    UK 67.3%
    Constituency in 2017 73.0%
    Size of electorate 73,700
    Valid votes cast 52,971
  • CONSTITUENCY RESULT : Eastleigh

    Candidate name Party Gender Number of votes Share (%) Change vs. 2017 for party (percentage points)
    Paul Holmes Conservative Male 32,690 55.4% +5.0
    Lynda Murphy Liberal Democrat Female 17,083 29.0% +3.3
    Sam Jordan Labour Male 7,559 12.8% -7.2
    Ron Meldrum Green Male 1,639 2.8% +1.5

     

    Election statistics
    Majority
    Votes 15,607
    Percent 26.5%
    Rank (1 = highest %) 290
    Turnout
    Constituency 70.3%
    Region 70.2%
    UK 67.3%
    Constituency in 2017 70.5%
    Size of electorate 83,880
    Valid votes cast 58,971
  • CONSTITUENCY RESULT : East Yorkshire

    Candidate name Party Gender Number of votes Share (%) Change vs. 2017 for party (percentage points)
    Greg Knight Conservative Male 33,988 64.4% +6.1
    Catherine Minnis Labour Female 11,201 21.2% -9.2
    Dale Needham Liberal Democrat Male 4,219 8.0% +4.0
    Tim Norman The Yorkshire Party Male 1,686 3.2% +1.3
    Mike Jackson Green Male 1,675 3.2% +1.4

     

    Election statistics
    Majority
    Votes 22,787
    Percent 43.2%
    Rank (1 = highest %) 84
    Turnout
    Constituency 65.2%
    Region 64.3%
    UK 67.3%
    Constituency in 2017 66.6%
    Size of electorate 80,923
    Valid votes cast 52,769
  • CONSTITUENCY RESULT : East Worthing and Shoreham

    Candidate name Party Gender Number of votes Share (%) Change vs. 2017 for party (percentage points)
    Tim Loughton Conservative Male 27,107 51.0% +2.1
    Lavinia O’Connor Labour Female 19,633 37.0% -2.4
    Ashley Ridley Liberal Democrat Male 4,127 7.8% +3.0
    Leslie Groves Williams Green Female 2,006 3.8% +1.4
    Sophie Cook Independent Female 255 0.5% 0.0

     

    Election statistics
    Majority
    Votes 7,474
    Percent 14.1%
    Rank (1 = highest %) 446
    Turnout
    Constituency 70.7%
    Region 70.2%
    UK 67.3%
    Constituency in 2017 70.3%
    Size of electorate 75,194
    Valid votes cast 53,128
  • Boris Johnson – 2021 Comments on Beating Crime Plan

    Boris Johnson – 2021 Comments on Beating Crime Plan

    The comments made by Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, on 27 July 2021.

    When I first stood on the steps of Downing Street as Prime Minister, I promised to back the police and make people safer, because we cannot level up the country when crime hits the poorest hardest and draws the most vulnerable into violence.

    That is why my government has remained unstinting in its efforts to protect the British public and this plan delivers a fresh commitment, as we emerge from the impacts of the pandemic, to have less crime, fewer victims and a safer society.

  • Liz Kendall – 2021 Comments on Government’s Social Care Plan

    Liz Kendall – 2021 Comments on Government’s Social Care Plan

    The comments made by Liz Kendall, the Shadow Social Care Minister, on 24 July 2021.

    Two years since his promise to the nation on the steps of Downing Street, the British people are no closer to seeing Boris Johnson’s plan to ‘fix the crisis in social care’.

    After ten years of the Tories in power, Britain deserves better. Either the Prime Minister lied about having a plan to fix social care or he lied about not raising taxes.

    Every day the Government delays their plans for fixing the crisis in social care is another day that staff don’t get the pay and training they deserve, another day that thousands of people go without the basic help they need, to do things like get up, washed, dressed and fed, and another day that families are pushed to breaking point.

    Ministers must now put in place a ten-year plan for investment and reform that puts social care on a sustainable footing, and provides all older and disabled people with the dignity and security they deserve.