Weston-super-Mare General Election results in full as Labour win

Weston-super-Mare voters have gone to the polls - and have elected a new Labour MP.

Conservative John Penrose has held the seat for almost 20 years. Pollsters were tipping it to be a narrow Labour gain - and they were proven right

First elected in 2005, Mr Penrso won it from Liberal Democrat Briain Cotter who had held the seat since 1997, the town’s only non-Conservative MP since Liberal Frank Murrell’s fleeting stint as MP in 1924. But MRP polls now suggest the town could go Labour for the first time in its history - and so it proved

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This is the first general election where voters will need to take an accepted form of photo ID with them to vote at a polling station. It is also the first election with new constituency boundaries, which see most of the villages east of Locking and Elborough move into the Wells and Mendip Hills constituency.

FULL RESULTS

Lab win - gain from notional C

Dan Aldridge (Lab) 16,310 (38.48%)

+John Penrose (C) 11,901 (28.08%)

Richard Pearse (Reform) 7,735 (18.25%)

Patrick Keating (LD) 3,756 (8.86%)

Thomas Daw (Green) 2,688 (6.34%)

Lab maj 4,409 (10.40%)

Notional 19.71% swing C to Lab

15.20% boundary change

Electorate 70,504; Turnout 42,390 (60.12%)

2019 notional: C maj 13,310 (29.02%) - Turnout 45,872 (64.86%)

C 26,210 (57.14%); Lab 12,900 (28.12%); LD 5,382 (11.73%); Green 1,380 (3.01%)