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Steve Yemm | |
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![]() Official portrait, 2024 | |
Member of Parliament for Mansfield | |
Assumed office 4 July 2024 | |
Preceded by | Ben Bradley |
Majority | 3,485 (8.5%) |
Personal details | |
Born | Stephen Yemm January 1964 |
Political party | Labour |
Alma mater | University of Nottingham (BSc) |
Stephen Yemm (born January 1964) [1] is a British Labour Party politician who has been Member of Parliament for Mansfield since 2024.
Yemm received a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Chemistry from the University of Nottingham. [2]
He was the Labour candidate in the 2011 Mansfield mayoral election,and defeated by Mansfield Independent Forum candidate Tony Egginton by a majority of 67 votes on second preference voting.
Prior to becoming an MP,Yemm worked in IT and was a long-term chairman of Mansfield's local Labour group between 2008 and 2017. [3] [4]
Yemm was elected as Member of Parliament for Mansfield at the 2024 general election,defeating his Conservative predecessor Ben Bradley. [5] [6]
Yemm has three adult daughters with his wife, [4] a consultant radiographer at Kings Mill Hospital. He has lived in Mansfield all his life. [7]
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