General Election Result

I expect that like me Labour’s stunning election result has filled you with an immense feeling of relief. At last we have a government which puts public service and country first over party, and the hard work of rebuilding the country after 14 years of Tory destruction can begin.

Gosport Results

In Gosport, whilst we didn’t share in the national win we did come a good second – Caroline Dinenage polled 17,830 votes and our Labour candidate, Edward Batterbury 11,776 taking Dinenage’s majority from 23,278 to 6,054, a drop of over 17k. Whilst this was in part due to the Reform vote, Labour’s vote share went up by over 8%: all this in one of the safest Conservative seats in the country!

We had even better news in the Grange and Alver Valley by-election where Jonathan Brown, who was pipped to the post by 11 votes in the May local elections won a resounding victory with a majority of 110 over the Tory candidate. Jon will make an excellent local councillor in Gosport, and will join June Cully and Alan Durrant in the Labour Group.