Danny Kruger elected at Conservative MP for East Wiltshire
He received 16,849 votes
Last updated 5th Jul 2024
Danny Kruger has been elected as the Conservative Member of Parliament for the new constituency of East Wiltshire.
The votes were as follows:
Conservative 16,849 - Danny Jruger
Labour 12,133 - Rob Newman
Liberal Democrats 8204 - David Kinnaird
Reform UK 7885 - Stephen Talbot
Green 1844 - Emily Herbert
True & Fair 278 - Pete Force Jones
Despite winning by more than four thousand votes - what's happened nationally has hindered his celebrations.
Mr Kruger said:
"I'm so disappointed that after the tremendous victory four years ago we have ended up reversing all of those gains and conservative colleagues including here in Wiltshire are going out and loosing their seats, so something very bad has happened to my party tonight."
He added:
"I was pleased with the investment that the last government, the government I supported was making into defence, I'm not convinced Labour are going to make the same commitment so I'm going to be holding them firmly to account in supporting our armed forces."
It stayed Blue across South Wiltshire with John Glen being re-elected as the Conservative MP for Salisbury.
The Test Valley's Caroline Nokes and Kit Malthouse, Desmond Swayne in the New Forest and Andrew Murrison in South West Wiltshire all remain MP's across the region.