Sensational gain in Chesham & Amersham

Congratulations to the Liberal Democrats’ newest MP Sarah Green! Sarah took the rock-solid Conservative seat of Chesham & Amersham in a spectacular by-election yesterday.

Until now Chesham & Amersham has never been anything other than Conservative. But a 16,000 Conservative majority is now an 8,000 Liberal Democrat one.

The increasingly extreme and out-of-touch Conservative Party is showing itself to be vulnerable in the traditional ‘blue wall’ South of England. Here in Cambridgeshire it has lost the County Council to No Overall Control. Liberal Democrats are now the largest party in a three-way Joint Administration. And it has lost the Mayoralty to Labour.

In South Cambridgeshire, the Conservative majority over the the Liberal Democrats at the last election was 2,904.

In South East Cambridgeshire, it was 11,490.

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