Labour Takes Kingswood Seat From UK Tories in Blow to Sunak
- Starmer’s party overturns another large Conservative majority
- Result will boost opposition party’s morale after setbacks
Damien Egan after being declared the winner in the Kingswood by-election in Thornbury, UK.
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Keir Starmer’s poll-leading UK Labour Party took another parliamentary seat from Rishi Sunak’s governing Conservatives, overturning a significant majority and denting the prime minister’s hopes of wrestling back momentum ahead of a nationwide vote expected in the second half of the year.
Labour’s Damien Egan won 11,176 votes, a 44.9% share, in the special election in Kingswood, outside the southwest city of Bristol. Conservative Sam Bromiley got 8,675 votes. Reform UK’s Rupert Lowe came third, the Green Party’s Lorraine Francis followed and Andrew Brown finished fifth for the Liberal Democrats.