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LABOUR HOLDS ALYN AND DEESIDE

DELYN CONSERVATIVE GAIN

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Labour has been left with just one seat in North Wales following the party's worst election result for 90 years.

Mark Tami hung onto to his Alyn and Deeside seat with the narrowest of margins but it took a recount in Coleg Cambria's sports hall in Connahs' Quay to eventually decide the result.

Delyn has a new MP, Tory Rob Roberts beat Labour's David Hanson by over 800 votes in a seat which he been held since 1992.

Rob Roberts said the result showed “people wanted a change, to move forward and get things done“ 

David Hanson said, “it has been a privilege to do this job for 27 years and I will miss it tremendously 

I'm proud of what I stood for, I think Brexit was a bad idea and a terrible idea for the people of Delyn, I stood on that and if I've lost on that I'm still proud I held true to my principles.“

 

Mark Tami's majority in Alyn and Deeside was cut to just 213 from 5,200.

The initial count was so close Conservative party candidate Sanjoy Sen was offered a recount by returning officer Colin Everett which he duly accepted.

Even the recount didn't convince Mr Sen who asked for the bundles to be checked and following that the two candidates shook hands and Mr Tami was declared the winner at around 4.30am.

Mark Tami returns to the Alyn and Deeside seat which he has held since 2001, he said, "We've obviously suffered a very bad defeat and I've lost many colleagues, I've just about hung on,"

"There are a number of issues - Brexit was an issue, the leadership of the party was an issue and we really have to look at ourselves and decide which was we go forwards.

Turnout in Delyn 70.51%, down 2.3% in Alyn and Deeside it was 68.6% down 2.4% from 2017.

 

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