Tories win Hastings

By The Newsroom

Published 7th May 2010, 06:12 BST

Updated 7th Jun 2018, 23:19 BST

Voters in Hastings have chosen Conservative Amber Rudd as their new MP.

Ms Rudd won 20,468 votes, 41.1 per cent of the vote.

Michael Foster, the first ever Labour MP Hastings has ever had, won 18,475 votes, or 37.1 per cent.

Despite lots of talk about the Nick Clegg effect, Nick Perry and the Liberal Democrats won 7,825, or 15.7 per cent.