General Election 2024: Labour's Louise Haigh re-elected to Sheffield Heeley
Louise Haigh re-elected to Sheffield Heeley with a huge majority of 15,304 votes.
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00:00I hereby declare that the total number of votes cast across Sheffield Healy at the UK
00:25Parliamentary election was 39,084. The total number of votes given to each candidate was
00:35as follows. Rebecca Rachel Louise Atkinson, Liberal Democrats, 3,863.
00:48Lexi James Diamond, Green Party, 5,926.
01:02Louise Hague, Labour Party, 21,230.
01:09Helen Clare Jackman, Social Democratic Party, 711.
01:26Lorna Dorothy Maginnis, Conservative Party candidate, 5,242.
01:37Louise Macdonald, Party of Women, 482.
01:44Stephen Roy, Workers' Party, 594.
01:52Nick Suter, Unionist and Socialist Coalition, 398.
01:58The total number of ballot papers rejected was 638.
02:04Therefore, I give notice that Louise Hague is duly elected as a member of Parliament for the
02:10Sheffield Healy constituency. I would like to be the first to offer my congratulations to Louise
02:16and invite her to give a short speech.
02:19I would like to start by thanking the polling agents, the accounting staff, the police, the security and of course my fellow candidates, all of whom are unassuming heroes of our democracy.
02:44I would like to thank my agent Liz Pemberton and her partner in crime, Bob, my fabulous campaign team and of course the people of Sheffield Healy.
02:55For the past nine years it has been my immense privilege to represent you and together we have fought for our public services, for our community and against the worst excesses of Tory austerity and decline.
03:12Tonight Sheffield Healy has delivered the biggest mandate for change in a generation and that demand has finally been echoed across the country.
03:25Labour have heard that demand and the next Labour government under Keir Starmer will deliver the change that our city and our country are crying out for.
03:38The world's leading action on the climate crisis. To once again rescue our NHS from the depths of Tory degradation.
03:49To make work pay for the biggest expansion of workers' rights in our history and to put the public back in our public transport system, bringing our buses under public control and our railways back under public control.
04:08Each generation of British people have looked to the Labour Party to rebuild and to remake our country and 2024 is now that generational moment.
04:22Sheffield made me the person I am today and every day I will fight for you, for our city and for our community.
04:32I will be your voice in Westminster and your voice at the heart of the next Labour government so that together we can rebuild our city and our country and finally deliver the change our community deserves. Thank you.