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This is the man who managed to oust Nick Clegg in an election result that shocked the nation.

Labour's Jared O'Mara snatched the former Deputy Prime Minister's Sheffield Hallam seat after victoriously winning 21,881 votes to Clegg's 19,756.

Who is Jared O'Mara?

The 35-year-old was born in Sheffield and has been a disability campaigner for years.

Jared has cerebral palsy and is registered disabled.

As well as having been chairman of a Sheffield based disability information service, he spent over 12 years as a trustee of a Sheffield based disability charity and as a school governor of a Sheffield school.

He has a 1 class honours degree from Staffordshire University in Journalism.

And has previously stood as a candidate in council elections.

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He recently told an interviewer: “Having a disability can make us more passionate, resilient, empathetic and hard-working than non-disabled candidates by virtue of everything being harder for us in life.

“I feel that every disabled candidate, whatever the party, could be better supported by the powers that be and more should be done to get disabled people with a wide range of disabilities into public life.”

How did he manage to defeat Clegg?

Many were surprised with the result, as Clegg had held the seat since 2005.

On the BBC Today programme this morning Clegg suggested the loss of his seat was down to his anti- Brexit stance.

"The Labour party vote didn’t go up very much, mine didn’t go down very much," he said.

"What happened was, interestingly, an almost doubling of the number of people voting for the Conservative party which let Labour through the middle.

"I need to reflect on it, but I guess that must be because there were a fair number of voters in south-west Sheffield who felt that my stance against Brexit was too anti-Brexit.

"So maybe I lost my seat because of my rather stubborn, lifelong belief that we should be part of Europe, which is a view I am not going to resile from."

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But the result was also partly attributed to students, who still have not forgiven Clegg for his broken tuition fees promise.

What's it like being a disabled MP?

In a guest post for Scope's blog last year, Jared said being disabled and standing for election 'had not been easy'.

He said: "I was born with cerebral palsy hemiparesis, which in my case means that the entire right side of my body is significantly weaker than my left.

"I have reduced mobility, poor balance, and regular bouts of tiredness and fatigue. I can also only type with my left index finger.

"Even before becoming a candidate, I’ve had to struggle up and down difficult stairs just to get to candidacy interviews.

"When out in residential areas, I’m constantly on edge, wary that a dog may jump up at me and knock me over.

"All the extra campaign on work on top of working full is time is more tiring for me than it would be for a non-disabled person."

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But he adds that he 'relishes it'.

"I’m not scared of hard work," he said. "I really want to get elected so that I can serve the community of good people from my local area where I grew up."