List of MPs who lost their seat in the 2017 United Kingdom general election
This is a list of MPs who lost their seat at the 2017 United Kingdom general election, together with the last date when each seat was represented by a different party.
Open seats changing hands
Party | Candidate | Incumbent retiring from the House | Constituency | Defeated by | Party | ||
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Independent | Paul Oakley (UKIP) | Douglas Carswell (elected as UKIP)[n 2] | Clacton | Giles Watling | Conservative | ||
Independent | Toni Giugliano (SNP) | Michelle Thomson (elected as SNP)[n 3] | Edinburgh West | Christine Jardine | Liberal Democrats | ||
Labour | Tracey Harvey | Tom Blenkinsop | Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland | Simon Clarke | Conservative | ||
Liberal Democrats | Sue McGuire | John Pugh | Southport | Damien Moore | Conservative | ||
Notes
- Elected as a Labour MP
- Carswell was elected as a UKIP MP in 2015 after defecting from the Conservatives in 2014. He left UKIP in 2017 to sit as an independent, and chose not to stand again.
- Thomson was elected as an SNP MP in 2015, but resigned from the party whip and gave up her SNP membership later that year, following the announcement of a police inquiry into allegations made against her.
References
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