Labour win first seat as Sunderland South declare first

  • 2 months ago
Shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson has been elected MP for Houghton and Sunderland South, as the constituency in North East England wins the race to declare their results first. Report by Jonesia. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Can I have your attention please. I am ready to declare the result for Houghton and Sunderland
00:07South. I, Patrick Neelyer, Acting Returning Officer, hereby give notice that the total
00:17number of votes for each candidate for the Houghton and Sunderland South constituency
00:23is as follows.
00:53The number of rejected ballot papers was 101, the turnout was 51.2% and that Bridget
01:17May-Phillipson has been duly elected to serve as Member for the said constituency.

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