However, its Member of parliament Malcolm MacDonald was one of the few Labour MPs to join his father Ramsay MacDonald ‘s National Government. Labour first won the seat in the 1929 general election. Bassetlaw was for many years a safe seat for the Labour Party. The constituency was created in 1885 by the Redistribution of Seats Act. Brendan is Nottinghamshire born and bred. He was elected on 12th December 2019, winning the seat with a majority of over 14,000. Labour controlled the council for 25 years, until once again no party had overall control.īrendan Clarke-Smith MP is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Bassetlaw. From 1976 to 1979, no party had overall control, until the 1979 local elections in which Labour gained control. When did Bassetlaw District Council come into existence?īassetlaw District Council was founded in 1973 with Labour first gaining control. The fall in Labour’s vote, 24.9%, was the greatest of any seat in the election. In the December 2019 general election, the Conservatives won the seat with a swing from Labour of 18.4%, the largest recorded in the election. Keir Morrison, a councillor in the Ashfield District, replaced Gimson as the Labour candidate. Who was the Labour candidate in Bassetlaw in 2019?
