Labour has made record gains after overturning two Tory majorities in the Wellingborough and Kingswood by-elections.
The party overturned majorities of 11,220 and 18,540, delivering the Government's ninth and tenth by-election defeats of the current parliament.Gen Kitchen took the seat in Wellingborough in the early hours of Friday, a seat which had been held by ousted Tory MP Peter Bone since 2005. She won a majority of 13,844 votes compared to Tory candidate Helen Harrison, who received 7,408, giving the Labour MP a majority of 6,436.
He won 11,176 votes, while Tory candidate Sam Bromiley polled 8,675, giving Labour a majority of 2,501.The turnout was 24,905, which is around 37.1% of eligible voters in the constituency.The results have given a major boost to Labour despite the party’s recent turmoil over an anti-Semitism row that forced it to drop candidate Azhar Ali in the upcoming Rochdale by-election and backlash over the U-turn on its flagship £28 billion green pledge.
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