Newcastle has become the first general election constituency to declare, with Labour's candidate Chi Onwurah holding the seat.
It beat Houghton and Sunderland South, which has been the fastest to declare for the past six elections.
Newcastle Central declared at 11pm, just an hour after polling stations closed. Labour's candidate Onwurah
won 24,071 votes, comfortably beating the Tory candidate Steve Kyte who had 9,134 votes.
Nick Cott, the Liberal Democrat candidate, secured 1,812 votes and David Muat, the Ukip candidate, won 1,482 votes. The Green candidate Peter Thomson won 595 votes.
FOR ADVERTS CALL +234 8065046533 OR 7010528147 OR SEND US AN EMAIL ON dpaschalblog@gmail.com.
FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @dpaschalblog
No comments:
Post a Comment