UK Conservative party wins last seat in 2010 general election

May 28, 2010

The Conservative Party has won the last seat of the, taking the seat of with a majority of over 11,000. Voting in the constituency had been delayed by the death of the United Kingdom Independence Party candidate in the run-up to the original polling date of May 6, 2010.

The new MP,, took over 52% of the vote, with the – partners with the Conservatives in the  – in second place. Despite the relationship between the parties in government, the Liberal Democrat candidate Howard Keal had promised that there would be a "full-on fight" for the seat. The came third, although the fall in its share of the vote was described by political opponents as "catastrophic" for the party.

McIntosh, formerly MP for the constituency, said that she was "delighted", adding that it was a "very exciting time" in politics. Keal said that he was "grateful and humbled" for the support he had been given. Jonathan Roberts, the Labour Party candidate, said that it was "an extraordinary election, undertaken in extraordinary circumstances in an extraordinary constituency."

This was the first election held for the constituency, which was formed from parts of two former Conservative-held seats ( and Vale of York). The Conservatives' share of the vote (compared to notional figures for the new constituency based on the 2005 election results) rose by 0.2%, with the Liberal Democrats up 5% and the Labour Party down 11.6%.


 * Results
 * Anne McIntosh (Conservative) – 20,167 (52.87%)
 * Howard Keal (Liberal Democrat) – 8,886 (23.30%)
 * Jonathan Roberts (Labour) – 5,169 (13.55%)
 * Toby Horton (UKIP) – 2,502 (6.56%)
 * John Clark – 1,418 (3.72%)
 * Total votes: 38,142 (turnout of 50.3%)