Green light for Amber!

Voters in Rye have chosen Conservative Amber Rudd as their new MP.
By The Newsroom
Published 7th May 2010, 10:06 BST

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.

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Tony Smith of UKIP came fourth with 1,397 votes, just ahead of Nick Prince and the BNP who won 1,310 votes (2.8 per cent and 2.6 per cent respectively).

Rod Bridger's English Democrats came in sixth with 339 votes, or 0.7 per cent.

An emotional Ms Rudd said: "The people of Hastings and Rye have voted for change, and I am in no doubt who I work for, I work for all the people of this constituency."

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