Yahoo News General Election 2024: The only Nottinghamshire constituency which is expected to elect a Conservative MP
As it stands, the Conservatives are only expected to retain one seat in Nottinghamshire at the General Election - according to the Ipsos exit poll. A landslide Labour victory is being predicted as they are forecast to win 410 seats to the Tories' 131 - which would be the lowest number of MP's the Conservatives have held since records began.
In Nottinghamshire, Labour is also expected to dominate, even heavily so in Rushcliffe, one of the safest Conservative seats in the country and one they've held since 1970. In fact, according to the Ipsos poll, conducted by BBC, ITV and Sky News, only one area is predicted to have a Tory MP from today onwards.
That area, according to the poll, is Newark - a seat the Tories and Robert Jenrick currently hold. According to the poll, Mr Jenrick has a very good chance of retaining his seat, currently standing at 83 percent. This means that Labour have a 17 percent chance to gaining the seat - a percentage which is, of course, only a prediction.
Elsewhere in the county, Reform UK - forecast to win 13 seats overall in the General Election - are just up on Labour's Jo White in Bassetlaw. Reform have been given a 56 percent chance of winning the seat compared to Labour at 44 percent.
Candidate Frank Ward's claim is that he would be the oldest person to enter the House of Commons for the first time if elected.
Newark candidates
Green
Michael Ackroyd
Labour
Saj Ahmad
Independent Network
Adrian Amer
English Democrats
Matthew Darrington
Independent
Lyn Galbraith
Conservative
Robert Jenrick
Reform
Robert Palmer
Workers Party of Britain
Collan Siddique
Liberal Democrats
David Watts
