Julian Brazier wins his fifth Canterbury parliamentary mandate
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MP for Canterbury Julian Brazier
No surprise after yesterday's elections
Canterbury remains a faithful region for conservatives as Julian Brazier keeps his seat in the House of Commons. The electorate in Canterbury showed once again its political preference and voted in consequence. As in all the constituencies throughout the country, in Canterbury was no time for anything else than counting votes. And, after a white night the results put Conservatives at the top, with 44.8 per cent of the votes. Liberal Democrats came second with 32.5 per cent while by now former government party, Labour are third with a share of just 16.1 per cent.
Even if Julian Brazier, MP for Canterbury since 1992 won with a secure margin, receiving an impressive number of 22,050 votes, the conservatives lost 5,4 per cent to Lib Dems' Guy Voizey who was voted by 16,000 people. Click here to see a detailed situation over Canterbury elections.
Kent map is entirely blue
The same conservative victory could be seen in all Kent. In fact, every seat in the next Parliament is now held by the Conservative Party. In Dartford, the electoral battle has been won by Gareth Johnson with over 10,000 votes. Sittingbourne and Sheppey saw the biggest swing to the Conservatives in Kent at 12.7 per cent, which had been listed as Labour's top target seat. Therefore, Tory candidate Gordon Henderson has been attributed with 50 per cent of the votes, while the Labour Angela Harrison was down by more than a half, 24.6 per cent.
The Tories also seized power from Labour in Chatham and Aylesford, where Labour's Minister for the South East Jonathan Shaw was ousted by Tory candidate Tracey Crouch in a 11.05 per cent swing to the Conservatives.
Ms Crouch said: "It shows that people desperately want change in Chatham and Aylesford and across Kent. Kent has turned entirely Conservative, so it is a good result."
Julian Brazier clashes with tuition fees in his new parliamentary term
Conservative MP for Canterbury in the last four Parliaments, Julian Brazier declared in March that he stands for the students in Canterbury, but suggested calm and balance in tackling the expected rise in tuition fees, in what meant one of the hottest topics of the electoral campaign:
