Samantha Dixon elected new Labor MP for Chester with 61%
By Thanasis Gavou
With a comfortable and widened majority, Britain’s opposition Labor Party retained the parliamentary seat of Chester, in its first – albeit expected – electoral defeat. Rishi Sunak as leader of the ruling Conservative Party.
The snap election took place on Thursday after Labor MP Christian Matheson resigned over two allegations of sexual harassment.
Samantha Dixon was elected the new Labor MP in Chester with 61% of the vote and with a difference of almost 11,000 votes from the Conservative candidate.
In the 2019 election the margin in favor of Labor was just over 6,000 votes. This means that in yesterday’s elections there was a shift of voters from the Conservatives to the Labor Party at a rate of 13.8%.
Candidate Liz Wardlaw’s 22.4% of the vote is the lowest for the Conservatives since 1832 in this historic and volatile constituency.
Winner Ms Dixon said Labour’s landslide victory showed the people were giving them a “resounding mandate” and that “the Tories’ time in power is numbered as the people want change”.
However, political commentators in Britain point out that defeat for the Conservatives was a foregone conclusion and cannot be blamed on Rishi Sunak, who has been in charge of the party for just over a month.
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