Wakefield by-election

The hotly-anticipated poll comes after former MP Imran Ahmed Khan resigned after he was convicted of sexually assaulting a teenage boy in 2008. Simon Lightwood defeated Tory candidate Nadeem Ahmed by 4925.

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Voters go to polls in Wakefield by-election.

. By election results 2022. A pair of byelections. Polling stations are open from 7am to.

Labour has won the Wakefield by-election to regain the West Yorkshire seat it lost to the Conservatives at the 2019 General 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. On paper this is it.

0146 22062022 - Not all results are in. NHS worker Simon Lightwood will now represent. Wakefield and Tiverton and Honiton both Conservative-held have come under serious threat from Labour and the Liberal Democrats respectively.

Keir Starmer hailed Wakefield as the birthplace of the next Labour government as he seized on the by-election win to stabilise his leadership. Sir Keir was in the Yorkshire constituency just a. 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. Sir Keir Starmer can lead Labour to a big by-election win if the odds are to be believed. 17 hours agoTurnout in the Wakefield by-election was 3909 per cent while 523 per cent of Tiverton and Honitons electorate cast their votes.

Prof Menon believes a Labour victory in Wakefield will send a powerful signal that it can begin to win back its Red Wall heartland seats 20 per cent of which it lost in the 2019 election and will be a real test for its leader Sir Keir Starmer. A by-election for the United Kingdom parliamentary constituency of Wakefield will be held on 23 June 2022. 17 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.

It was triggered by the resignation on 3 May 2022 of Member of Parliament MP Imran Ahmad Khan who was elected as a Conservative at the 2019 general election. Wakefield was held by Labour for more than 87 years before the Conservatives took the seat in 2019 with a majority of 3358. Held by Labour between 1931 and 2019 it is also slightly older and less ethnically diverse than the.

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. The election will be held the same day as the Tiverton and Honiton by-election in. Wakefield in West Yorkshire was part of Labours red wall which crumbled to the Conservatives in the 2019 general.

21 hours agoTwo key by-elections in different corners of the country have been fought with great intensity by the opposition parties. The Conservatives won Wakefield from Labour at the 2019 general election the first time the seat had elected a Tory since 1931. Mary Creaghs five-percentage point majority was replaced by a seven-point Tory one.

He has now been jailed. Fifteen candidates have been confirmed to stand for election in Wakefield after former Conservative MP Imran Ahmad Khan resigned. 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.

The Wakefield poll is being held on the same day as the Tiverton and Honiton by-election which was called after Tory MP Neil Parish resigned over his viewing of pornography in the Commons. The election is due to be held on 23 June. 10 hours agoElection 2019 results Wakefield On that occasion Conservatives won 473 per cent of the vote Labour 398 per cent the Brexit Party 61.

Click to Refresh the page and keep up-to-date with the live results. These are the candidates. This is the by-election that will be hard fought and that will tell the tale of so-called Red Wall England.

1 day agoPolling station for both by-elections will be open from 7am to 10pm on Thursday with the results expected between 4am and 6am on Friday. Labour open as short-priced favourites. Sir Keir not taking potential by-election win for granted.

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. Wakefield By-Election Odds. He stood down after he was convicted of sexually assaulting a 15.

Wakefield goes to the polls next Thursday in a closely-watched by-election. 1157 Tuesday 19th April 2022 - 4 minute read. 17 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.

Wakefield a former industrial town in the North of England is a different proposition.

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