{"id":141375,"date":"2018-06-15T00:47:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T00:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/labours-janet-daby-wins-lewisham-east-in-by-election\/"},"modified":"2018-06-15T00:47:19","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T00:47:19","slug":"labours-janet-daby-wins-lewisham-east-in-by-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/labours-janet-daby-wins-lewisham-east-in-by-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour&#8217;s Janet Daby wins Lewisham East in by-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Janet Daby\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/83BB\/production\/_102032733_janetformp.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  Labour Party<figcaption>Image caption                                      Janet Daby is the new MP for Lewisham East                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">Labour&#039;s Janet Daby has won the Lewisham East by-election, which was triggered by the resignation of Labour MP Heidi Alexander.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-deputy mayor of Lewisham won with 50.2% of the vote, and said she felt &quot;humbled and delighted&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Alexander announced in May she was quitting Parliament to work for Mayor of London Sadiq Khan.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Daby was picked as a candidate from a shortlist of black and ethnic minority women.<\/p>\n<p>She received 11,033 votes, the Lib Dem candidate Lucy Salek 5,404 (24.6%) and the Conservative candidate Ross Archer 3,161 (14.4%).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Labour chooses by-election candidate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In her acceptance speech Ms Daby said her victory meant &quot;we will not tolerate an extreme Brexit in Lewisham East&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We refuse to stand by and let a Tory government devastate our schools, our health service and our housing,&quot; she added.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 21,979 people turned out to vote in the by-election - representing 33.2% of the electorate.<\/p>\n<p>There was an 19% swing from Labour to the Lib Dems, who saw a 20% increase in their vote share from the last election. <\/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>Their new majority is 5,629.<\/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 Labour PartyImage caption Janet Daby is the new MP for Lewisham East Labour&#039;s Janet Daby has won the Lewisham East by-election, which was triggered by the resignation of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141375","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\/141375","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=141375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}