Julie Marson is new MP

Conservatives have held the seat of Hertford & Stortford, with Julie Marson being elected to replace Mark Prisk.

Despite a reduced share of the vote, Ms.Marson polled 33,712 votes - 56.1% of the poll, with Labour's Chris Vince coming in second with 14,092 votes (23.4%). Chris Lucas for the Liberal Democrats increased their share of the vote by 6.2% with 8,596 votes.

Posting on Twitter, M.Marson said: "Thank you so much to the people of Hertford and Stortford for placing your trust in me. I will be your voice in Parliament and put you at the heart of everything I do."

Former constituency MP Mark Prisk announced in September that he would not be standing for re-election after 18 years.

The full results from yesterday's poll are shown below.

	Name	Party	Votes	Share	Change
	Julie Marson	Conservative	33712	56.1%	-4.2%
	Chris Vince	Labour	14092	23.4%	-5.1%
	Chris Lucas	Liberal Democrat	8596	14.3%	+6.2%
	Lucy Downes	Green	2705	4.5%	+1.5%
	Alistair Lindsay	UKIP	681	1.1	+1.1
	Brian Percival	Independent	308	0.5%	+0.5%

Turnout was 73.76% and the number of rejected ballots was 229.