Tom Randall | |
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Member of Parliament for Gedling | |
In office 12 December 2019 –30 May 2024 | |
Preceded by | Vernon Coaker |
Succeeded by | Michael Payne |
Personal details | |
Born | Thomas William Randall 4 July 1981 Arnold,Nottinghamshire,England |
Political party | Conservative |
Residence(s) | Arnold,Nottinghamshire,England [1] |
Education | Redhill Academy |
Alma mater | University of Oxford |
Website | www |
Thomas William Randall [2] (born 4 July 1981) [3] [4] is a British Conservative Party politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Gedling from 2019 until 2024. [5] He was a member of the 1922 Committee.
Randall was born and grew up in Arnold,Nottinghamshire,where he attended Redhill Academy. [6] He lived on Killisick Road. [7]
He studied law at Oxford University, [8] going on to practise as a solicitor for two years. [6] He worked for a professional membership body[ clarification needed ] [8] before becoming an MP. He was diagnosed with Ankylosing spondylitis at the age of 16.
Randall contested the local government election in 2018 for Tower Hamlets but fell seven votes short of winning one of the two Canary Wharf seats. [9]
Randall was selected to contest the Gedling seat by the Conservative Party for the 2019 general election. He went on to defeat the sitting Labour MP Vernon Coaker and win the seat with a majority of 1.4%,or 679 votes. [5] This made the seat one of the most marginal in the country. [6]
Randall was defeated by the Labour candidate Michael Payne at the 2024 general election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Michael Payne | 23,278 | 47.8 | +5.0 | |
Conservative | Tom Randall | 11,397 | 23.4 | −23.8 | |
Reform UK | Simon Christy | 8,211 | 16.9 | +13.5 | |
Green | Dominic Berry | 3,122 | 6.4 | +4.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Tad Jones | 2,473 | 5.1 | +0.6 | |
Independent | Irenea Marriott | 241 | 0.5 | New | |
Majority | 11,881 | 24.4 | |||
Turnout | 48,722 | 63.3 | |||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Tom Randall | 22,718 | 45.5 | +2.6 | |
Labour | Vernon Coaker | 22,039 | 44.1 | −7.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Anita Prabhakar | 2,279 | 4.6 | +2.5 | |
Brexit Party | Graham Hunt | 1,820 | 3.6 | +3.6 | |
Green | Jim Norris | 1,097 | 2.2 | +1.2 | |
Majority | 679 | 1.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 52,164 | 69.9 | −2.6 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +5.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Andrew Wood | 983 | |||
Labour | Kyrsten Perry | 760 | |||
Labour | Anisur Anis | 758 | |||
Conservative | Tom Randall | 754 | |||
Aspire | Mohammed Talukdar | 700 | |||
Aspire | Helen Begum | 456 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Kevin Lyons | 315 | |||
PATH | Yusuf Ahmed | 236 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Gareth Shelton | 222 | |||
Green | Andrew Grey | 215 | |||
Independent | Natasha Bolter | 141 | |||
Green | Alasdair Blackwell | 137 | |||
Rejected ballots | 12 | ||||
Turnout | 3,101 | 33.8 | |||
Registered electors | 9,150 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Labour gain from Tower Hamlets First |
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