Yorkshire Results Election 2017

Their share of the vote was down, reflecting

Welcome to a special edition of Look North

after a night of election shocks here in Yorkshire.

They've taken four seats from the Conservatives and Lib Dems

This time last year you called for Corbyn to step down.

Yeah, and I think he's proved his critics wrong.

The Conservatives fail to make the gains they wanted.

And the Lib Dems are wiped out in Yorkshire, as their former leader

Nick Clegg loses his seat in Sheffield Hallam.

In politics you live by the sword and you die by the sword.

Our reporters are out around Yorkshire on a momentous morning.

One which the pundits completely failed to predict yet again.

We might not know the shape of the next government yet

but here in Yorkshire it's been a very good night for Labour.

Even some of the party's MPs admit they're stunned.

They've taken Keighley and the Colne Valley

They've also wiped out the Lib Dems in Yorkshire,

beating Greg Mulholland in Leeds North West and perhaps

notably of all, the former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg

We're going to start there with our reporter Tom Ingall.

Tell us the latest. It was a surprise election and it has had a

surprise result. For the first time we think about the entire Sheffield

political map is coloured red. They finally managed to get onto that

irritating corner, Sheffield Hallam, Conservative seat until 1997 and

then went to the Lib Dems and specifically for the last 12 years

it's been the seat of Nick Clegg. Let me take you through the numbers.

This is how it broke down. Are really for the Conservatives

compared to 2015, but still well behind the Lib Dems and Labour.

Let's go back to the main man, former leader of the Lib Dems,

formerly Deputy Prime Minister, and formerly an MP.

Just seven years ago it seemed everyone agreed with Nick.

Now instead he had a long walk to the podium to hear someone else

deliver the victor's speech for Sheffield Hallam.

Everybody who has a physical disability like me or has any

I will be your ally and friend and champion in Westminster.

Let's all go on this journey together, guys.

We must try and reach out to each other to try and find common

ground if we are to heal those profound divisions.

Because if we do not, if we do not, if we do not,

it is my judgement that our country will endure unprecedented hardship

A plea for all to work together on Brexit and then

It was left to other Liberal Democrats to explain

We've seen a massive increase in people turning out and voting.

Jeremy Corbyn offered a manifesto we think not well costed

but he promised many free things in there.

Clearly, the vote's happened and we must respect that now.

I hereby declare that Jill Furniss has been duly elected.

It was a night of smiles and cheers for Labour with some stonking

Not just in Sheffield, but right across South Yorkshire.

This time, Ed Miliband didn't have to carry a party on his back

and he has praise for the man who succeeded him, Jeremy Corbyn.

I think he's proved his critics wrong.

He won, not only the parliamentary party, but he's now gained seats

for Labour and I think, as I say, he's proved his critics

wrong and I think he deserves huge credit for this.

Elections come and go, faces change, but it's the red flag

which still captures the political wind in South Yorkshire.

Worth saying it wasn't all plain sailing for Labour down this way. In

Stockbridge, they got closely by the Conservatives, Angela Smith, the

Labour MP, her majority cut from 7000 down to 1000, but she hung on

in there however to the south, it's all change in North East Derbyshire.

Natasha Engel losing to the Conservatives. A night some will

want to remember, some will want to forget. Tom, thank you.

So a dramatic night in Sheffield and also in lots of other

Our data journalist David Rhodes has been up all night crunching

the numbers and looking at the big picture.

Another breathtaking evening of election results.

Labour gaining seats, whilst the Tories have stood

still and the Lib Dems have been wiped out.

So let's look at the election map of Yorkshire as it

North Yorkshire was dominated by the Conservatives with Labour

holding only York Central and that remains the same this morning.

If you live in North Yorkshire nothing has changed here.

Let's go to South Yorkshire, and Labour's dominance in this

Every seat in South Yorkshire is held by Labour after they unseated

The Conservatives made one gain in the North Midlands taking

But it's in West Yorkshire where the most seats changed hands.

Labour unseated the other Yorkshire Lib Dem Greg Mullholland

Young voters in this constituency appeared to have

Whilst in Colne Valley and Keighly, areas that were divided

by Brexit nearly 50/50, here Labour made big gains.

But what are the underlying trends of this election?

Well here are the total vote shares for our region in 2015.

Labour dominate but UKIP picked up one in every six votes.

Fast forward two years and watch this.

Many voters asking themselves after Brexit what is Ukip for?

The Lib Dems they had a terrible night in 2015.

They thought that was as low as they could go, but no,

more voters here in Yorkshire have turned their back on the party.

And it leaves us in a rare situation where both Labour

and the Conservatives have actually both increased their share

We think most of the Ukip vote has gone to the Conservatives but some

Ukip-ers will have gone back to Labour.

But for Labour they've picked up votes from the Lib Dems and we think

they've also been boosted by a growing number of young

and disaffected voters who have this time turned out for Jeremy Corbyn.

Labour did not expect to see these results this morning,

the Conservatives certainly didn't but in parts of Yorkshire

When you look at those results on the screen, it was a successful

night in Yorkshire for the Labour Party.

Joining me now is Dr Felicity Matthews, a politics expert

And James Vincent, our political correspondence both of its been a

long night. It's been tiring. Felicity, you didn't predict this

result. Nobody would've predicted the seven weeks ago. It seems a long

time ago when Theresa May had a 20% lead over Jeremy Corbyn and now

that's all changed and the Conservatives have lost that

majority, they've lost it. We're in a situation now of hung parliament

so what happens now? There's a certain procedure followed now,

Cabinet manual but sets out clearly what happens. The incumbent

government is entitled to stay in place to see a big form another

government, it doesn't have to be a majority government so Theresa May

effectively has got first dibs on government formation and. If she

can't do that, we have to have a viable alternative, perhaps the

coalition, a Labour led minority government. Felicity, thank you.

Eight seats in Leeds. Labour got very excited when they saw the exit

poll and started whispering about what seats they could take in west

Yorkshire from the Conservatives and in the end they settled for one and

this is what happened in Leeds overnight. Leeds was not supposed to

be this interesting. CHEERING

They start of the night were the Lib Dems sweating it out in Leeds North

West, thousands came out to see Jeremy Corbyn there this campaign,

and ultimately it was the end for Lib Dem Greg Mulholland. Theresa

May's a snap election cost him his job. She's going to lose a majority,

some of her ministers been losing their seats tonight, and it shows

appalling judgment. Someone like that is not fit to lead the country

and they don't think she has credibility now as an MP and it's

time she stood down and walked away. But walk me into Westminster, his

replacement, Alex Sobel. This is down to young people and we saw

people coming to Labour right across all age groups. Labour had got all

excited, the exit poll had them telling tales of toppling the

Conservatives in Pudsey. They went far off to be honest. Stuart Andrews

still won but his majority was reduced from over 4000 to just over

300. I think it wasn't the best campaign we've ever had and we need

to be honest about that. What was wrong with the campaign? Perhaps we

needed to get out of it more because that's what people want to. I think

we've got to learn that lesson and reflect on that and deal with it for

the future. Andrea Jenkins was the story last time out, beating Ed

Balls. She merely got to see how that felt. She retained his seat,

and she increased her slim majority. What a night. I've actually got no

nails left after this evening. It was really tense. A good night for

Labour and they will be pleased. They came together during the

campaign but will some still be against Jeremy Corbyn when they go

back to Parliament? A disappointing night for Greg Mulholland after 12

years in the Leeds North West seat. Is it all about the student vote?

Yes and no. If you member the scenes of Jeremy Corbyn with thousands of

students supporting him, Leeds North West up the newest voters, basically

students, but voting was down on two years ago but Greg Mulholland will

have realised his goose was caught when he saw the students turning out

for Jeremy Corbyn in Hyde Park. Indeed, thank you very much for now.

As we've been hearing, Labour took two seats in West Yorkshire

Colne Valley turned from blue to red with Thelma Walker

beating Jason McCartney, who had been the MP for seven years.

Our correspondent Danni Hewson was at the count and joins us

A surprising results, Danny? Yes, that's right. You can see last of

the summer Wine country behind me with a town of Holmfirth nestled in

the Valley back there. It has been conservative for the last seven

years. Jason McCartney took the seat back in 2010 and he increased his

majority last time out. But this is a bellwether seat the mood and last

night that mood turned it red. Let's look at the members. Thelma Walker

got 28,000 votes were the Conservatives less than a thousand

behind and everybody else just disappeared in their dust. It has to

be said, even Thelma Walker herself, a retired headteacher, was rather

surprised but you said over the last few weeks, the mood on the doorstep

had been changing. Eye could see people over the weeks listening to

our message on the doorstep. They had been reading the manifesto and

they were saying, this is good for them this is what we want. And then

seeing Jeremy on the television in the role of a strong leader coming

through with a strong message. And they think that has been

communicated on a national level. And on a local level. So we began

the last few weeks thinking we could do this and we have. Of course it's

not just national issues. One interesting part of this campaign

had been concerns about plans to change hospital provision in nearby

Super Holmfirth. When Jeremy Corbyn came to the area and said he would

look at plans, that played well. Voters were up as well but tonight

it was Labour's night here in Colne Valley. Thank you.

Another place waking up with a new MP this

With a very tight majority of just over 300 votes,

John Grogan took the seat from Kris Hopkins.

Spencer Stokes is in Keighley for us this morning.

Another shocker, Spencer? Yes, this is the Keighley constituency, the

Keighley half down their bathed in sunshine and the town waking up with

a new Labour MP. But only just because look at these figures. Last

night, the former MP Kris Hopkins for the Conservatives took 23,800

votes, John Grogan from Labour, 24,000. It gives him a majority of

just 239, one of the slimmest majority is in the whole of the

country. John Grogan said to me he felt the mood changing in the last

couple of days when he was campaigning in Keighley. Young

people were asking for photographs, something they went doing a couple

of years ago. At one point last night we thought there could be a

shift on the Conservatives to Labour in the neighbouring constituency of

Shipley, but it didn't happen. The Conservative MP there, Philip

Davies, hung on, but he saw his majority cut in half. He had some

quite critical words for Theresa May and also of the Conservative

campaign when I spoke to him a few hours ago. I think we made a pig 's

year of the National campaign, I think the stuff on social care, I've

no idea where any of that came from. It came from thin air, it seemed and

that was a mistake. I think Jeremy Corbyn tapped into the feeling of

anti-austerities in the country and I'd picked that up on the doorstep.

People were waning of austerity and wanted to hear something different.

The Prime Minister went in with an overall majority and appears, early

indications, we will come out without an overall majority. By

anybody's standards, that's not a good place to be. Nobody can talk a

lot up as a successful so I'm certainly not going to do that.

Philip Davies re-elected as the Shipley MP. Keighley has a new

Labour MP this morning, John Grogan, and if it's a name you recognise, up

until 2010, he was the MP for Selby until Lazio was abolished, and man

now preparing to head back to Westminster. Spencer, thank you.

Well we saw John Grogan there, the new Labour MP for Keighley.

We're also joined by former Conservative minister

I'd like to start with Theresa May calling the selection for what she

called a strong and stable government going into the Brexit

talks. Should she go? That's entirely a matter for her how she

take things forward now. Do you think she should go? No, I don't

think so, not now. You can talk about the campaign, we can analyse

it for a long time. It's an unusual result except the Conservatives had

more votes, more vote share than they had before, and they also have

the most seats, so... She launched the manifesto in Halifax and Labour

increased it threefold. I'm not saying it's not disappointing, but

we've now got to be very calm and collected about this. Her job as

Prime Minister, never mind watching what might want to do, her

obligation is to see the majority with as large a number of seats,

whether she can form a government and if she can, a responsible one

common and also a government which can take forward proposals in a way

Parliament will approve them for the Queen's Speech, that's what you has

to do. If she is able to do that, fair enough. If not, then obviously

constitutionally we have to move on to different territory. But I'd do

think what this election has said, if you look at the increase in

turnout, younger people, we've always been encouraging younger

people to vote, more of them turned out on this general election and

their voice was heard and the results to some extent reflect that

voice and that voice is going to continue in the areas of major areas

of policy which no doubt, if we form the government, we have to reflect

on very carefully indeed. Congratulations, John Grogan. Thank

you. The Labour Party but resources into retaining seeds in Leeds and

South Yorkshire. Were you surprised by your vote? Yes, I was. It got

closer as the election went on that when we started, the Labour Party 's

entire strategy was defending seats like Halifax. What won it for you,

do you think? The manifesto infused people and the Tories started making

mistakes over social care and local issues about schools and so on, and

they think the Tories made the mistake that they went defending

their marginals and they were on the offensive and didn't defend places

like Keighley and we snuck through Fulford I expected to be at

Headingley next Tuesday rather than voting for the Speaker of the House

of Commons will be turned it around. Want to make a Jeremy Corbyn? He's

had a marvellous campaign. I did not vote for him but you've got to take

your hat off to him. I doubt whether we will get power this time around.

John McDonnell said we will offer ourselves as a minority government

but probably another Tory leader and the minority government with

unionists, but if Jeremy has not given as power, this time he has

governed the country and those young people we were talking about, it's

an unusual thing for a man of 56 to be wondering around wanting selfie

is with me because I'm the closest thing to that man. Felicity, there's

no winners in this election. We have a hung parliament. What happens now

because this was supposed to be to give us a clear direction in Brexit,

for the next five years but there is no clarity at all? There is clarity

in that there's a referendum result that stance, both major parties are

to honouring the referendum result and they guess the question will be

now what happens going into the negotiations and who goes into the

negotiations because they are meant to start in just 11 days but I think

there are winners in this election. I think it's democracy itself.

Turnout has increased, everybody thought it was going to be another

catastrophe, not another election, Brenda in Bristol, but young people

having gauged, so there's a lot of good for the longer term. The whole

parliament will want to be involved in the Brexit the gauche Asians now.

No longer will it be acceptable, Theresa May and a few advisers do it

behind closed doors and then two years down the line, every MP will

want to be involved. Plenty of time to give talking now you've been

elected. Thank you to all of you. So far we've focused on the seats

which have changed hands. But there were plenty of stories

elsewhere in Yorkshire. First let's go to York

from where Phil Bodmer rounds up The ballot boxes and the county

tables have been put away. Who knows for how long so watch changed in

North Yorkshire over the last 24 hours? The truth is, nothing,

because the MPs elected in 2015 of staging post and once again we have

this sea of blue with just one seat that is read right in the middle. In

tipping a majority, Rachel Maskell easily saw off the Tory challenge in

York Central on a night a few surprises. I'm utterly delighted

that York Central is so strongly Labour. And of course, our country,

because Labour offers the answers to people's real concerns at this time.

Julie Stirling held onto York Outer but admitted Tory results elsewhere

were disappointing. The national campaign has uncovered itself in

glory. Some good colleagues have lost their seats tonight. Elsewhere,

Conservative Andrew Jones returned as MP for Harrogate. Fellow Tory

Nigel Adams retained Selby. Kevin Holling rate and Robert Goodwood

returned. Julian Smith kept Skipton and Ripon, a story in North

Yorkshire. Now results elsewhere in the region. Lots of reasons for the

region 's Labour candidates to smile. Absolutely. In South

Yorkshire, the political map is much the same this morning as it was last

night. Nick Clegg 's departure was the only drama the early hours in

Sheffield as Labour retained the rest of the city seats while the

Doncaster, Barnsley and Rotherham seat Stade read, to. -- Stade read,

to. Political commentators have kept a close eye on some of our marginal

seats with Halifax expected to be a battle ground but Holly Lynch didn't

just hang on, she increased her majority from just over 400 to more

than 5000. I'm humbled and delighted that after just two years I'd been

returned to continue my work with an increased majority. Meanwhile, no

change for Calder Valley. It's been a tough night, roller coasters

election campaign, but the great thing is that the people have put

their faith in me for a third term and of course we are delighted. A

particularly strong performance for Labour in Bradford. They thought of

a challenge on the independent candidate. In West Yorkshire, Brexit

capital, Wakefield, Mary pray held on despite a strong remain stance.

Adduced the Daugherty. The Ukip vote collapsed and the Greens won less

than half the number of votes they did two years ago. And there was

little room for the new kids on the block but the Yorkshire party could

celebrate beating the Liberal Democrats to third place in

Wakefield. When I came in here, I hope that get 500 vote and got

double that and I'd beat the Lib Dems which isn't something I'm

expecting to do and we also bid the Lib Dems in the constituency so we

are delighted by that. The night belonged to Labour in Yorkshire.

Well yet again the British voter has surprised us all.

James Vincent has followed the campaign trail closely over

How would you sum up the result, James?

If you look at where Theresa May came to Yorkshire to campaign, those

red seeds, those target seats for the Conservatives, she missed all of

their targets and she could not hit a barn door in Yorkshire. Labour

Party gained two from the Lib Dems, two and we have no others, your are

either red or blue in Yorkshire these days and when we get to Brexit

the gauche Asians, we will make sure we're either together or even more

divided. James, thank you. So we leave you on an historic

morning after an historic election. The Conservatives are the largest

party after a campaign which saw this, a new phenomenon

on our streets. Jeremy Corbyn supporters arriving

to greet him in huge numbers. Perhaps this was the first sign

of what was to come. But none of us saw

it coming, did we? Join us for lots more on Look North

tonight at lunchtime and 6.30. negotiations, I think duty calls and

she will stay. Viewers are joining us from around the UK.

We better say goodbye, Gus, thanks very much. The former Cabinet

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