Cabinet ministers Grant Shapps, Gillian Keegan and Alex Chalk have both lost their seats in the General Election.
Defence Secretary Mr Shapps lost his seat of Welwyn Hatfield to Labour by a margin of 3,799 votes. He declined to answer questions as he left the count on Thursday night.Mr Shapps won 16,078 votes, compared to Labour candidate Andrew Lewin's 19,877. Reform UK also won over 6,000 votes.Gillian Keegan, the Education Secretary, lost her Chichester seat to the Liberal Democrats, who won with a majority of 12,172 votes.
That would make him the first sitting Chancellor to lose his seat. Earlier in the night, Sir Robert Buckland, a former Justice Secretary, lost his seat in Swindon South, in Labour's first gain from the Tories.Sir Robert, who previously held Swindon South with a majority of over 6,000, lost to Labour's Heidi Alexander.Labour won 21,676 votes, with the Conservatives second on 12,070. Reform UK were third on 6,194. This marks the first Labour gain from the Tories this evening.
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