Residents react to Labour regaining two of the three seats it lost in the 2019 election.
As the sun rose on Friday, Wolverhampton woke up to Labour victories in all three of its constituencies after two of them were won by the Conservatives in 2019.
While the city is now completely red, with Juss Warinder and Sureena Brackenridge joining Pat McFadden as Labour MPs, the number of votes for Labour were actually lower in two of the three constituencies compared to the 2019 election.In Wolverhampton West, Juss Warinder won with 19,331 votes - fewer than the 23,197 Labour achieved in 2019 when they lost to the Tories.
Labour votes in the city have either stagnated or fallen compared to five years ago with the party's wins in this election thanks to the plummeting Tory votes in the city.In the aftermath of the election the BBC spoke to voters in Wolverhampton, many of whom were sceptical about the future - even from residents who had voted Labour.
"It always seems like when we get a new government it’s all right for a few years then it starts to go pear-shaped."One Tory voter, Jimmy Singh, owner of Jack's Cafe, said: "I voted Conservative. Obviously we knew Labour was going to win. In Wolverhampton North East, where the same percentage of voters had voted Leave, Reform came third with 1,100 votes fewer than the Conservatives.
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