Thank you for delivering Labour’s best result in Crawley for two decades

Were the General Election held yesterday, Crawley would now be a Labour constituency.

Across Crawley, voters delivered record majorities in safe Labour seats, with the Conservatives retaining just four seats, most by their narrowest of margins in decades. Had fewer people voted Green in Three Bridges or Pound Hill South & Worth, those seats would also no longer have a Tory councillor.

This year was always going to be a tough year for Labour in Crawley, with all the marginal seats either already held by Labour (Gossops Green & North East Broadfield, Ifield and Southgate) or not up for election (Tilgate) and all-out elections in 2019 meaning that the most popular ward member was up for re-election in each ward.

Despite this, Crawley residents did the remarkable and delivered a win for Labour in Pound Hill North & Forge Wood, until recently Tories’ strongest seat and a ward Labour had not won since 1995.

Much like in 1995, the scale of the losses the Conservatives have faced across the country now make two things clear, Labour are now in a position to fight and win a the next General Election, and where Greens and Lib Dems vote tactically for Labour, Tories lose.

Thank you so much for your support. The General Election in Crawley starts here.