York Central’s Rachael Maskell increased her 2019 majority of 13,545 to more than 19,000.
In York Outer, meanwhile, Labour’s Luke Charters unseated Tory Julian Sturdy, who had held the seat since 2010.
An elated Mr Charters, who overturned Mr Sturdy’s majority of 9,985 at the last election to win by almost 10,000 votes, said that he would do ‘everything I can to deliver the change that you have voted for’.
“We ran this election as a changed Labour Party,” he said. “Thank you for putting your trust in us to change the country.
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