Shadow Commons leader Valerie Vaz has been re-elected as the MP for Walsall South, with a significantly decreased majority.

The Labour candidate beat Conservative Gurjit Bains by 3,456 votes, less than half the majority at the 2017 election.

Gary Hughes of the Brexit Party came third and Liberal Democrat Paul Harris came fourth.

Voter turnout was down by 2.9 percentage points since the last general election.

More than 42,000 people, 62.4% of those eligible to vote, went to polling stations across the area on Thursday, in the first December general election since 1923.

Four of the six candidates, Gary Hughes (The Brexit Party), Paul Harris (Liberal Democrat), John Macefield (Green) and Akheil Mehboob (independent) lost their £500 deposits after failing to win 5% of the vote.

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