Mark Pritchard has been re-elected as the MP for The Wrekin with an increased majority.

The Conservative candidate beat Labour's Dylan Harrison by 18,726 votes, 9,162 more votes than the majority at the 2017 election.

Thomas Janke of the Liberal Democrats came third and the Green Party's Tim Dawes came fourth.

Voter turnout was down by 3 percentage points since the last general election.

Nearly 49,000 people, 69.2% of those eligible to vote, went to polling stations across the area on Thursday, in the first December general election since 1923.

One of the four candidates, Tim Dawes (Green) lost his £500 deposit after failing to win 5% of the vote.

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