{"id":141339,"date":"2018-06-14T22:14:11","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T22:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/votes-counted-in-lewisham-east-by-election\/"},"modified":"2018-06-14T22:14:11","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T22:14:11","slug":"votes-counted-in-lewisham-east-by-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/votes-counted-in-lewisham-east-by-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Votes counted in Lewisham East by-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Heidi Alexander\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/5F20\/production\/_102025342_heidialexander_ukparliament.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  UK Parliament<figcaption>Image caption                                      Heidi Alexander has quit Parliament after eight years                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">Polls have closed in the Lewisham East by-election, which was triggered by the resignation of Heidi Alexander.<\/p>\n<p>The Labour MP announced in May she was quitting Parliament to work for Mayor of London Sadiq Khan.<\/p>\n<p>She was among shadow ministers to resign from the front bench in June 2016, arguing that Labour could not win power under Jeremy Corbyn&#039;s leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Labour won the south London seat at the 2017 general election with 32,072 votes - a majority of more than 20,000. <\/p>\n<p>The Conservatives were second with 10,859. The Lib Dems came third with 2,086 while the Greens got 803 and UKIP 798.<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  Getty Images<figcaption>Image caption                                      Sir Vince Cable has been on the campaign trail in Lewisham East                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But the Lib Dems will be hoping to improve their performance in the constituency - Lewisham voted to remain in the EU during the 2016 referendum and Lib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable has been on the campaign trail alongside the party&#039;s candidate, Lucy Salek.<\/p>\n<p>Heidi Alexander, who became an MP in 2010 and was shadow health secretary between 2015 and 2016, is leaving to become the new deputy mayor for transport.<\/p>\n<p>She has been a prominent pro-EU voice on the opposition benches and has been co-chair of Labour Campaign for the Single Market.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year she accused Labour of failing to come with a &quot;common and coherent&quot; Brexit position.<\/p>\n<p>She is the latest Labour MP to leave Parliament for a job outside the Commons.<\/p>\n<p>Another former shadow health secretary, Andy Burnham, is now the mayor of Greater Manchester, Tristram Hunt became director of the Victoria and Albert Museum and Jamie Reed left for a job in the nuclear industry.<\/p>\n<p>The full list of candidates in Lewisham East was:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah - Green Party<\/li>\n<li>Ross Archer - Conservative<\/li>\n<li>Charles Carey - no description<\/li>\n<li>Janet Daby - Labour<\/li>\n<li>Massimo DiMambro - Democrats and Veterans Party<\/li>\n<li>Sean Finch - Libertarian Party<\/li>\n<li>Patrick Gray - Radical Party<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Hall - Young People&#039;s Party<\/li>\n<li>Howling Laud Hope - Monster Raving Loony Party<\/li>\n<li>David Kurten - UKIP<\/li>\n<li>Maureen Martin - Christian Peoples Alliance<\/li>\n<li>Mandu Reid - Women&#039;s Equality Party<\/li>\n<li>Lucy Salek - Liberal Democrats<\/li>\n<li>Anne Marie Waters - For Britain Movement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright UK ParliamentImage caption Heidi Alexander has quit Parliament after eight years Polls have closed in the Lewisham East by-election, which was triggered by the resignation of Heidi Alexander.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}