A landslide victory in Sheffield for Labor as they win all six seats

It was a landslide victory for Sheffield Labor as they won all six seats in the city.

Labor was predicted to do well as people across the city headed to the polls on Thursday (July 4). Despite this, the exit polls still came as a shock to many as they showed Labor with a massive majority and the Conservatives down by just over 100 seats.

In Sheffield, the biggest surprise came when Conservative Miriam Cates lost her seat in Penistone and Stocksbridge – which had been the only Conservative constituency left in Sheffield.

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And the story is largely the same in South Yorkshire, with every seat in the area now held by Labour.

Before the election, Labor controlled five out of six seats in Sheffield, with Louise Haigh, Clive Betts, Olivia Blake and Gill Furniss all fighting for re-election.

After 236,119 votes were cast by voters across the city, they are now joined by two new Labor MPs – Abtisam Mohamed for Sheffield Central, who took over from Labour’s Paul Blomfield, and Marie Tidball, who took the seat of Penistone and Stocksbridge out of a mess. shows Miriam Cates with 43.6 percent of the votes.

And it was truly a landslide victory for the party. In many of the constituencies, union candidates from Sheffield won with significant majorities. In Sheffield Central, Labor MP Abtisam Mohamed got 16,569 votes (52.1 per cent), while Tory candidate Lucy Stephensone got just 2,339 (7.4 per cent).

Marie Tidball also managed to secure victory with 43.6% of the vote in Stocksbridge, while Louise Haigh was comfortably re-elected with 55% of the vote in Heeley.

Talk of the Lib Dems taking Olivia Blake’s Sheffield Hallam seat was also dismissed. Sky News’ analysis of exit polls suggested there was a 97% chance he would steal the seat. However, the results showed that she won comfortably, securing 46.3% of the votes cast.

Marie and Abtisam were the first two to take to the stage to deliver the winner’s speech, with both candidates saying “change” needs to happen now that Labor is back in power. Abtisam spoke of putting the conflict in the Middle East at the forefront of his agenda.

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Labour’s other winners also took to the stage to address the crowds, including Clive Betts, who was re-elected in the Sheffield South East constituency for a ninth time, and Louise Haigh, who retained her Heeley seat behind the nine years. run.

Speaking at the podium, Betts said: “Tonight was a great victory for the Labor party nationally. But the hard work starts now,” as Haigh reiterated plans to bring Sheffield’s buses and rail network back under public control.

For now, Rishi Sunak has conceded defeat and a new government will be formed by Keir Starmer and the Labor Party as 14 years of Conservative Party rule come to an end in Britain. The next general election seems like a lifetime away, but Labor will know it must make use of the mandate it has been given if it hopes to be in power five years from now.