The Labour Party candidate Emma Lewell-Buck has won the South Shields by-election held yesterday. She retains a Labour led constituency that has held South Shields since 1935.
The by-election was triggered after the former foreign secretary David Miliband announced recently that he was resigning from the House of Commons in order to leave Britain and head up the New York based International Rescue Committee humanitarian organisation.
I covered event yesterday and a few pictures are below with further shots via the link HERE
A voter makes his way into one of the 45 voting stations in the South Shields constituency
Councillor Ernest Gibson, the Deputy Mayor of South Tyneside, hangs party banners at Harton and Westoe Colliery Welfare Club
Voters make their way towards one of the portable voting stations in South Shields
After the polls closed at 10pm the ballot boxes start to arrive to be counted
Ballot papers are emptied out onto the tables to be counted
The count begins at Temple Park Leisure Centre in South Shields
A member of the Monster Raving Loony Party looks on as ballot papers are counted
Labour candidate Emma Lewell-Buck reacts to well wishers in the gallery above after arriving to watch the count
Labour candidate Emma Lewell-Buck
Labour party members are in high spirits as the result is about to be announced
The candidates in the South Shields by-election line up as the Mayor of South Tyneside, Councillor Eileen Leask, prepares to read out the results
Labour candidate Emma Lewell-Buck makes her speech after being announced as winner of the South Shields by-election.
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