The declaration is made for Tipton and Wednesbury in the 2024 General Election
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00:00So I'm now going to declare the election result for the Titton and Wensbury constituency.
00:29I, Shona Plough, being the acting returning officer of the above election, do hereby give notice that the number of votes recorded for each candidate at the said election is as follows.
00:42Bailey Sean Stephen, the Conservative Party candidate, 8,370.
00:50Vance Antonio Kaye, Labour Party, 11,755.
00:58Hussein Abdel, Independent, 660.
01:04Hussein Mohammed Yassin, commonly known as Hussein Bila Mohammed Yassin, Independent, 945.
01:14Reading Mark Nicholas, the Green Party, 1,509.
01:22Rochelle Mark, Liberal Democrats, for a fair deal, 592.
01:29Salawa Jack, Reform UK, 8,019.
01:35The number of ballot papers rejected was as follows.
01:39Want of an official mark, zero.
01:42Voting for more candidates than voter was entitled to, 75.
01:47Writing or mark by which voter will be identified, zero.
01:52Being unmarked or wholly void for uncertainty, 64.
01:57Rejected in part, zero.
01:59The total number of ballot papers rejected was 139.
02:04This was one vacant seat in an electorate of 74,098 with 31,991 ballot papers verified and a turnout of 43.17%.
02:20And I do hereby declare that Antonio Kaye Vance is duly elected.
03:04Good evening, everyone. Good morning, everyone.
03:07I want to begin by thanking the returning officer, our staff, our counsellors, our security staff, everyone.
03:15In this country, everyone's vote counts the same.
03:19You make it so, and thank you.
03:22I want to say thanks too to my opponents.
03:26This campaign has been gruelling for all of us.
03:30Be proud today that you stood up for what you believed in.
03:34In particular, Sean, thank you always for your service and for always championing this very special bit of the black country.
03:45I want to thank my family, mum, dad, my brothers who are here today, my partner and our darling daughter.
04:01And I want to thank the local Labour Party, our local unions, all our brilliant counsellors and activists from near and from far.
04:12We did it together.
04:21Being elected as the MP for Tipton, Wainsbury and Cosley is the honour of my life.
04:28To everyone who lives here, no matter how you vote it, I will work for you.
04:33And if today you trusted Labour with your vote for the first time, thank you.
04:40I will do everything I can to repay your trust.
04:44It has been 14 long years.
04:4914 years of watching funding through our councils cut and cut and cut.
04:5514 years of the NHS on its knees.
04:5914 years of too many of our kids not having enough to eat.
05:07Today, standing here, I'm thinking of some of the hundreds of people I've met in the course of this campaign.
05:15The shop owner fighting for customers when no one has much to spare and the high street is fading away around her.
05:23The young man living in a caravan on his parents' drive because you can't afford to rent anywhere on a zero hours contract.
05:33And above all, the young woman I met in the high street in Wainsbury with two young kids living in temporary accommodation, one hotel room, shared kitchen, infested with ants.
05:46They need a Labour government.
05:50They need a Labour government to have their backs and a local MP who will fight for them and that is what I will do.
05:59Today is the start of a Labour government, we hope.
06:04We will transform the lives of so many working class kids in places just like this.
06:11We did it before and we will do it again.
06:14We are focused on what matters to working people.
06:18Economic security.
06:20Cheaper bills.
06:22Safer streets.
06:23Our NHS back on its feet.
06:25Secure borders and better opportunities.
06:28What all of our kids.
06:30The scale of the challenges we face is huge.
06:33We have practical, common sense plans to fix them.
06:37Politicians and politics should serve people.
06:42And Keir Starmer will put government at the service of working people once again.
06:49It's time to end the chaos and dysfunction in Westminster and rebuild our country.
06:56I will be a local MP who puts these towns first and the values that I take with me down to Parliament are solidarity, equality and dignity.
07:07Dignity above all because we are a proud working class community.
07:13We don't want charity.
07:15We want what we are due.
07:17We want our future back.
07:20And the work to deliver it starts right now.
07:24Thank you from the bottom of my heart.