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| Brecon and Radnorshire by-election: Lib Dems beat Conservatives | Brecon and Radnorshire by-election: Lib Dems beat Conservatives |
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| The Conservatives have lost a closely-fought Brecon and Radnorshire parliamentary by-election. | |
| Lib Dem candidate Jane Dodds overturned an 8,038 majority to beat Chris Davies by 1,425 votes. | |
| Mr Davies stood again after being unseated by a petition that followed his conviction for a false expenses claim. | Mr Davies stood again after being unseated by a petition that followed his conviction for a false expenses claim. |
| Labour were beaten into the fourth place by The Brexit Party. | Labour were beaten into the fourth place by The Brexit Party. |
| It was the first electoral test for new prime minister Boris Johnson. | |
| Ms Dodds, who is Welsh Lib Dem leader, said: "My very first act as your new MP when I get to Westminster will be to find Mr Boris Johnson, wherever he's hiding, and tell him to stop playing with the future of our community and rule out a no deal Brexit". | |
| Mr Davies congratulated Ms Dodds saying "I wish her well for the future" and he paid tribute to his family saying they had "a difficult time over the past few months". | |
| It leaves the government's working majority cut to just one, including the confidence and supply partners. | |
| The turnout was 59.7%, down from 74.6% at the general election, but it is the highest for a by-election since Winchester in 1997. | |
| Labour, which at one stage feared it might lose its deposit, blamed voters switching tactically to the Lib Dems. | |
| Both Plaid Cymru and the Greens did not field candidates, to try to maximise the Remain vote. | |
| Plaid leader Adam Price said the "spirit of co-operation" between the pro-Remain parties had led to Ms Dodds's election, as he called for a second referendum. | |
| "But if the prime minister is intent on a general election, he should know that Plaid Cymru and the other pro-Remain parties are committed to cooperating so that we beat Brexit once and for all," he added. | |
| Ms Dodds, 55, lives in the neighbouring constituency of Montgomeryshire and is a child-protection social worker. | |
| Recently-elected Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson said: "Boris Johnson's shrinking majority makes it clear that he has no mandate to crash us out of the EU." | |
| Political analyst Prof Roger Awan-Scully, from Cardiff University, said: "Labour need to look very closely at this result. Everything points to not just tactical voting for the Lib Dems but also dissatisfaction with Jeremy Corbyn and [First Minister] Mark Drakeford". |