General Election 2024: Labour hold onto Brightside & hillsborough with re-election of Gill Furniss

The Star, Sheffield

Labour have held onto Brightside & Hillsborough with the reelection of Gill Furniss, winning with a majority of 11,600.

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00:00for Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough constituency.

00:07I, Jane Dunne, being the returning officer for the Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough constituency

00:14at the election held on the 4th of July, 2024, do hereby declare that

00:21the total number of votes cast across Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough

00:26at the UK parliamentary election was 32,131.

00:35The total number of votes given to each candidate was as follows.

00:41Maxine Bowler, Independent, 2,537.

00:51Jill Furness, Labour Party, 16,300.

01:04Christine Gilligan-Kubo, Green Party, 4,701.

01:15Aaron Jacob, Conservative Party Candidate, 4,069.

01:26William Harvey Safwa, Liberal Democrats, 1,694.

01:37Jeremy Turner, Social Democrat Party, 873.

01:44Mark Tyre, Workers' Party of Britain for Gaza, 1,447.

01:54The total number of ballot papers rejected was 529.

02:01Therefore, I give notice that Jill Furness is duly elected as a Member of Parliament

02:07for the Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough constituency.

02:11I would like to be more than grateful for my congratulations to Jill,

02:15and in fact hope to make a short speech as well.

02:27Well, thank you very much everybody here.

02:29I want to start by thanking all the people who counted the votes,

02:33the police, the staff in this place,

02:37and all the people who actually put their trust in me when I was small.

02:42I particularly want to thank my fantastic team.

02:46One of them, my agent, Tony Southshire, who has been here until ten minutes ago

02:51but is now on his way to the East Midland Airport to begin his holiday.

02:56I owe him a great deal to actually give him a call this time for the last six weeks.

03:03I think tonight is a very, very remarkable night for the Labour Party.

03:09It's been 14 long years of much suffering by people in this constituency,

03:16like the Tory equivalent, and I've just found this quite emotional

03:22now that it's sunk in to me that we will be forming a Labour government tomorrow

03:29for the first time in 14 years,

03:32something that many of us in this room will have worked for tirelessly during that time

03:38and have seen our constituents, particularly in the last few years,

03:43be deprived of the essential services that they need and require in a government,

03:50to have an NHS that is completely broken,

03:54and most of all, more recently, the cost of living crisis,

03:59which has led to many, many, many tragedies that have happened

04:05because of people's lack of finances and being unable to pay their bills.

04:10I think it's fair to say that I'm so proud that I and the people of my constituency

04:17have voted for me once more, and I would like to say that it is fantastic

04:24that I'm still representing the constituency that I was born in,

04:29that I was grown up in, where I worked and where I went to school,

04:34and I promise to all my constituents yet again that I will work tirelessly

04:39to make sure that their lives are better,

04:42the lives that only a Labour government can provide for them.

04:46The change that only a Labour government can provide for them,

04:51and we will all begin tomorrow.

04:53Thank you everybody.

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