By Joe Locker, Local Democracy Reporter
The Conservative Party has been left with just one Nottinghamshire MP after suffering a thumping defeat both locally and nationally.
With leader Sir Keir Starmer now at the helm, Labour successfully ousted Ben Bradley in Mansfield, Brendan Clarke-Smith in Bassetlaw, Sir Mark Spencer in Sherwood Forest, Darren Henry in Broxtowe and Ruth Edwards in Rushcliffe.
It was a historic night in some constituencies, with Rushcliffe turning red for the first time in 54 years.
Their strong majorities in 2019 were left in tatters after disenfranchised voters took to the polls on July 4, and the Conservative vote was left fragmented.
Only the Conservative Party’s Robert Jenrick kept his seat in Newark, albeit with a vastly reduced majority.
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has been cited as one reason for the significant Conservative losses, particularly in Nottinghamshire, including by Mansfield’s former MP Mr Bradley who said it had “massively hurt our chances”.
Reform’s Lee Anderson retained his Ashfield seat with a 5,509-vote majority.
He had defected from the Conservative Party having been suspended for claiming “Islamists” had “got control” of the mayor of London.
On top of winning six seats from the Conservatives, Labour retained its strong grip on the three Nottingham constituencies, in what was a landmark General Election that has had a profound change on the county – and country’s – political landscape.
Below are all constituency results in full:
Ashfield
Turnout: 58 per cent
Electorate: 68,929
Majority: 5509
Lee Anderson (Reform): 17,062 (E)
Alexander Coates (Green): 1,100
Daniel Holmes (Lib Dem): 619
Rhea Keehn (Lab): 11,554
Debbie Soloman (Con): 3,271
Jason Zadrozny (Ash Ind): 6,276
Bassetlaw
Turnout: 57.61 per cent
Electorate: 78161
Majority: 5768
Brendan Clarke-Smith (Con): 12708
Rachel Sara Reeves (Green): 1947
Helen Tamblyn-Saville (Lib Dem): 1996
Frank Ward (Reform): 9751
Jo White (Lab): 18476 (E)
Broxtowe
Turnout: 66.7 per cent
Electorate: 70,440
Majority: 8403
Juliet Campbell (Lab): 19,561 (E)
James Collis (Lib Dem): 3,807
Dr John Doddy (Ind): 1,034
Darren Henry (Con): 11,158
Teresa Needham (Green): 3,488
Joseph Oakley (Reform): 8,402
Maqsood Syed (Workers Party of Britain): 388
Gedling
Turnout: 63.5 per cent
Electorate: 77,006
Majority: 11,881
Dominic Berry (Green): 3122
Simon Christy (Reform): 8211
Tad Jones (Lib Dem): 2473
Irenea Marriott (Ind): 241
Michael Payne (Lab): 23278 (E)
Tom Randall (Con): 11397
Mansfield
Turnout: 55 per cent
Electorate: 74,535
Majority: 3485
Zen Bilas (Ind): 85
Ben Bradley (Con): 12563
Peter Michael James Dean (The Socialist Labour Party): 423
Wesley Milligan (Ind): 335
Karen Rachel Mary Seymour (Trade Union and Socialist Coalition): 123
Philip Shields (Green): 1326
Matt Warnes (Reform): 9385
Michael Wyatt (Lib Dem): 799
Steve Yemm (Lab): 16048
Newark
Turnout: 67.25 per cent
Electorate: 80028
Majority: 3,572
Michael Ackroyd (Green): 2345
Saj Ahmad (Lab): 17,396
Adrian Charles Amer (Ind): 809
Matthew Darrington (English Democrats): 156
Lyn Galbraith (Ind): 329
Robert Jenrick (Con): 20,968
Robert Palmer (Reform): 8,280
Collan Siddique (Workers Party of Britain): 150
David Watts (Lib Dem): 3026
Nottingham North and Kimberley
Turnout: 48 per cent
Electorate: 73,768
Majority: 9427
Sam Harvey (Green): 3351
Caroline Henry (Con): 6787
Golam Kadiri (Reform): 7053
Alex Norris (Lab): 16480 (E)
David Reuben Schmitz (Lib Dem): 1336
Nottingham South
Turnout: 51 per cent
Electorate: 64255
Majority: 10,294
Shaghofta Naz Akhtar (Ind): 449
Paras Ghazni (Workers Party of Britain): 1496
Lilian Greenwood (Lab): 15579 (E)
Mykel Hedge (Reform): 4936
Christina Morgan-Danvers (Lib Dem): 2059
Zarmeena Abdul Quraishi (Con): 5285
Dr Mohammed Sayeed (Ind): 152
Cath Sunderland (Green): 2923
Nottingham East
Turnout: 53 per cent
Electorate: 69395
Majority: 15,162
Issan Ghazni (Workers Party of Britain): 2465
Ali Khan (Ind): 372
Johno Lee (Con): 3925
Rosey Palmer (Green): 4332
Anita Prabharkar (Lib Dem): 1741
Naveed Rashid (Ind): 494
Debbie Stephens (Reform): 3578
Nadia Whittome (Lab): 19494 (E)
Ruschliffe
Turnout: 73.22 per cent
Electorate: 79,160
Majority: 7,426
Ruth Edwards (Con): 17,865
James Grice (Reform): 6,353
Lynn Irving (Ind): 549
Richard Mallender (Green): 4,367
James William Naish (Lab): 25,291 (E)
Harbant Kaur Sehra (Ind): 186
Greg Webb (Lib Dem): 3,133
Sherwood Forest
Turnout: 62 per cent
Electorate: 78,894
Majority: 5,443
David Dobbie (Lib Dem): 1838
Sheila Greatrex-White (Green): 2216
Helen Rose O’Hare (Reform): 11320
Mark Spencer (Con): 13398
Jeremy Paul Spry (Ind): 183
Lee Waters (Ind): 864
Michelle Welsh (Lab): 18841 (E)
