Stockport Borough General Election Results: Conservatives 2 Labour 2

Following yesterday’s General Election, parliamentary seats across the borough of Stockport remain the same.

In Stockport, Labour has kept control where Navendu Mishra held the seat for Labour with a majority of more than 10,000 votes, following the departure of veteran former Labour MP Ann Coffey.

After being declared MP for Stockport, Mr Mishra said:

“I want to thank the people of Stockport for electing me to be your MP. I know that together we can build a brighter future for Stockport and labour. A future where no one goes hungry, no one is homeless and no one lives in poverty”.

In the constituency area including Reddish, Heaton Norris and Heaton Chapel, Andrew Gwynne, also representing the Labour Party was re-elected. The constituency straddles the boroughs of Tameside and Stockport and has been held Mr Gwynne since 2005.

Andrew said:

“I’m so honoured to have been re-elected as the MP for my home constituency where I have lived, gone to school, grown up and brought my own family up.

“It’s more than a job, it is an honour beyond words, and I vow tonight that I will continue to serve the people of Audenshaw, Denton, Haughton Green, Heaton Chapel, Heaton Norris and Reddish with with unstinting service and dedication for the next five years.”

In Hazel Grove, the Conservative party’s William Wragg retained his seat. On his Twitter page he said:

“Thank you to everyone who voted for me! I look forward to continuing to serve the Hazel Grove Constituency as your Member of Parliament.”

The Conservatives have held onto the Cheadle constituency. Mary Robinson was re-elected with 25,694 votes over the Lib Dems’ Tom Morrison, on 23,358.

Mary Robinson said:

“Thank you so much to the people of Cheadle for again giving me the privilege of representing you in Parliament. I’m so proud to be our area’s voice in Westminster and I’m delighted that my positive campaign received an equally positive endorsement from fellow residents.”

Boris Johnson secured the largest Tory majority in a generation and once again promised to “get Brexit done” saying:

“As the nation hands us this historic mandate, we must rise to the challenge and to the level of expectations. And parliament must change so that we in parliament are working for you the British people.”

Following the UK election results where the Conservative Party were outright winners and now take control of Parliament, Simon Brownbill of Stockport based Hurst Accountants said:

“Over time, most of our clients were accepting of Brexit, but wanted our departure to be properly managed with a withdrawal agreement in place. There was frustration that parliament had failed to get behind previous deals and, in that sense, many of our clients, despite not necessarily being natural Conservative supporters, were rooting for an outright Conservative victory.

“Coupled with this, many of our clients were deeply fearful of Labour’s economic strategy and the perceived damage this would do to the prospects of businesses and their employees.

“All in all, this is a positive outcome for business given the current state of UK politics.”

There are four parliamentary constituencies covering the borough of Stockport. Each constituency has one MP who represents their constituency in Westminster and are available at their local regular advice surgeries to meet with constituents.