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SNP MPs are not automatically reselected to stand, the party has a full open reselection process. To be nominated to take part in a selection contest a party member requires either a nomination by their local campaigns committee, or 50 local branch members.
Previous incumbent MP Stewart Hosie did not stand. Gethins was previously MP for North East Fife 2015–2019. Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber: Scottish National: Brendan O'Hara: Scottish National Party: MP for predecessor seat of Argyll and Bute: Arundel and South Downs: Conservative: Andrew Griffith: Conservative: Ashfield: Conservative: Lee ...
In 2015, after the SNP landslide victory in Scotland, he narrowly defeated the SNP candidate, Emma Harper by 798 votes, and was the only Scottish Conservative MP elected. [6] However, following the SNP's losses at the 2017 snap general election , the Conservatives gained 12 seats in Scotland, with Mundell increasing his majority to 9,441 votes.
Five independent MPs were elected in England, the highest number of independent MPs since 1945. Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn held his seat in Islington North, after being expelled from the party. The other four independent gains were in previously safe Labour seats: Blackburn, Birmingham Perry Barr, Dewsbury and Batley and Leicester South.
In the past, only male adult property owners could stand for Parliament. In 1918, women acquired the right to stand for Parliament, and to vote. To be eligible to stand as an MP, a person must be at least 18 years old and be a citizen of the UK, a Commonwealth nation, or Ireland. A person is not required to be registered to vote, nor are there ...
The constituency's first MP was Douglas Alexander, who had held the seat since its creation in 2005 and its predecessor Paisley South since 1997. Alexander was the Shadow Foreign Secretary, and has previously held Cabinet posts such as Transport Secretary and Scottish Secretary (2006–07; joint), and International Development Secretary (2007–10).
This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) who held seats at the end of the 58th Parliament of the United Kingdom and did not stand for re-election in the 2024 general election. A total of 132 Members of Parliament did not stand for re-election, including a record number of Conservative MPs.
Stockton West is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. [2] Further to the completion of the 2023 periodic review of Westminster constituencies, it was first contested at the 2024 general election, [3] when it was won by Matt Vickers of the Conservative Party (previously MP for Stockton South from 2019 to 2024).
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