General Election 2019: MPs who GAINED seats - who are they?
THE CONSERVATIVES have won the election with a landslide number of seats compared to the opposition. But who are the new Conservative MPs who gained seats in this election?
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The Conservatives stormed to victory overnight, with votes propelling them to 364 seats, higher than the 326 needed for a majority. It was a proud moment for Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who addressed a group of Conservative Party workers in Central London, starting his victory speech with “well, we did it - we pulled it off, didn’t we?”
Elsewhere in the political sphere, Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party suffered a crushing loss of seats, with many tumbling into Conservative hands.
Large numbers of seats came from the Labour Party’s so-called Red Wall, declining industrial heartlands once hostile to Johnson’s party.
Brexit, which has shattered old party loyalties and divided Britain along new fault lines, was the cause of the shift.
In the Red Wall, a majority of voters favoured leaving the European Union and rejected Mr Corbyn’s ambiguous stance on the issue.
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It was Mr Corbyn’s refusal to declare his and his party’s position on Brexit which is being blamed by many for the significant seat losses.
One symbolic win saw the Conservatives take Sedgefield, a seat once held by former Prime Minister Tony Blair, Labour’s most successful leader.
Educated at Eton, the country’s most elite private school, and known for his bombastic rhetoric, Johnson seemed to critics to be an unlikely candidate to win over working-class communities, but Brexit helped him redraw the electoral map.
In his victory speech, he addressed voters who had deserted Labour in his favour, saying he knew how hard it must have been to change parties.
Mr Johnson said: “Your hand may have quivered over the ballot paper before you put your cross in the Conservative box, and you may hope to return to Labour next time round, and if that is the case, I am humbled that you have put your trust in me.”
Who are the MPs who gained seats?
Below is a list of MPs who either gained seats from other parties or have replaced previous Tory MPs who resigned or lost the Whip.
Aberconwy: Robin Millar - replaced Guto Bebb
Arundel: Andrew Griffith
Ashfield: Lee Anderson - gain from Labour
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Aylesbury: Rob Butler
Barrow in Furness: Simon Fell - gain from Labour
Bassetlaw: Brendan Clarke-Smith - gain from Labour
Beaconsfield: Joy Morrissey - replaced Dominic Grieve after he lost the Tory Whip
Bedfordshire North East: Richard Fuller
Birmingham Northfield: Gary Sambrook - gain from Labour
Blackpool South: Scott Benton - gain from Labour
Blyth Valley: Ian Levy - gain from Labour
Bolsover: Mark Fletcher - gain from Labour
Bolton North East: Mark Logan - gain from Labour
Bosworth: Dr Luke Evans - Replaced David Tredinnick
Bracknell: James Sunderland
Brecon and Radnorshire: Fay Jones - gain from Lib Dem
Bridgend: Jamie Wallis - gain from Labour
Broadland: Jerome Mayhew
Broxtowe: Darren Henry
Buckingham: Greg Smith
Burnley: Antony Higginbotham - gain from Labour
Burton: Kate Griffiths
Bury North: James Daly - gain from Labour
Bury South: Christian Wakeford - gain from Labour
Carshalton and Wallingford: Elliott Colburn - gain from Labour
Cities of London & Westminster: Nickie Aiken
Clwyd South: Simon Baynes - gain from Labour
Colne Valley: Jason McCartney
Crewe and Nantwich: Kieran Mullan - gain from Labour
Darlington: Peter Gibson - gain from Labour
Delyn: Rob Roberts - gain from Labour
Derby North: Amanda Solloway - gain from Labour
Derbyshire Dales: Sarah Dines
Devizes: Danny Kruger
Devon East: Simon Jupp
Dewsbury: Mark Eastwood - gain from Labour
Don Valley: Nick Fletcher - gain from Labour
Dover and Deal: Natalie Elphicke
Dudley North - Marco Longhi - gain from Labour
Eastbourne: Caroline Ansell - gain from Lib Dem
Eastleigh: Paul Holmes
East Devon: Simon Jupp
East Surrey: Claire Coutinho
Eddisbury: Edward Timpson
Gedling: Tom Randall - gain from Labour
Grantham and Stamford: Gareth Davies
Great Grimsby: Lia Nici - gain from Labour
Guildford: Angela Richardson
Hastings and Rye: Sally-Ann Hart
Hertford and Stortford: Julie Marson
Heywood & Middleton: Christopher Clarkson - gain from Labour
High Peak: Robert Largan - gain from Labour
Hyndburn: Sara Britcliffe - gain from Labour
Ipswich: Tom Hunt - gain from Labour
Keighley: Robbie Moore - gain from Labour
Kensington: Felicity Buchan - gain from Labour
Leigh: James Grundy - gain from Labour
Lincoln: Karl McCartney - gain from Labour
Loughborough: Jane Hunt
Meon Valley: Flick Drummond
Meriden: Saqib Bhatti
Mid Sussex: Mims Davies (a 2017-2019 MP, but in a new seat)
Milton Keynes North: Ben Everitt
Montgomeryshire: Craig Williams
Newbury: Laura Farris
Newcastle-under-Lyme: Aaron Bell - gain from Labour
Norfolk North: Duncan Baker - gain from Lib Dem
Norfolk North West: James Wild
North Devon: Selaine Saxby
North East Bedfordshire: Richard Fuller
North West Durham: Richard Holden - gain from Labour
Orpington: Gareth Bacon
Penrith and the Border: Dr Neil Hudson
Peterborough: Paul Bristow - gain from Labour
Redcar: Jacob Young - gain from Labour
Rother Valley: Alexander Stafford
Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner: David Simmonds
Runnymede and Weybridge: Ben Spencer
Rushcliffe: Ruth Edwards
Rutland and Melton: Alicia Kearns
Scunthorpe: Holly Mumby-Croft - gain from Labour
Sedgefield: Paul Howell - gain from Labour
Sevenoaks: Laura Trott
South Cambridgeshire: Anthony Browne
South Ribble: Katherine Fletcher
South West Hertfordshire: Gagan Mohindra
Stafford: Theo Clarke
Stockton South: Matt Vickers - gain from Labour
Stoke-on-Trent Central: Jo Gideon - gain from Labour
Stoke-on-Trent North: Jonathan Gullis - gain from Labour
Stourbridge: Suzanne Webb
Stroud: Siobhan Baillie - gain from Labour
Totnes: Anthony Mangnall
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Truro and Falmouth: Cherilyn Mackrory
Wakefield: Imran Ahmad-Khan - gain from Labour
Wantage: David Johnston
Warrington South: Andy Carter - gain from Labour
Watford: Dean Russell
West Bromwich East: Nicola Richards - gain from Labour
West Bromwich West: Shaun Bailey - gain from Labour
West Dorset: Chris Loder
Wolverhampton North East: Jane Stevenson
Workington: Mark Jenkinson - gain from Labour
Wrexham: Sarah Atherton - gain from Labour
Vale of Clwyd: Dr James Davies - gain from Labour
Ynys Môn: Virginia Crosbie - gain from Labour