Well known Christians in parliament who lost their seats
from Religion Media Centre:
Fiona Bruce, the former Prime Minister’s Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion, has lost her seat in Congleton to Labour with a 30 per cent drop in her vote.
Sir Stephen Timms won in East Ham with a majority of 12,863 over Tahir Mirza, an independent candidate supported by The Workers Party.
Tim Farron, standing in Westmorland and Lonsdale, a new constituency considered a safe Conservative seat, won with a resounding reault – 31,061 votes over the Conservative candidate with 9,589 votes.
Andrew Selous, the second church estates commissioner, lost in the new seat of Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard, by just 667 votes to Labour’s Alex Mayer.
Miriam Cates, Conservative MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge and co-chair of the New Social Covenant Unit, lost to Labour’s Dr Marie Tidball. The other co-chair, Danny Kruger, is back, after winning the new seat of East Wiltshire.
Therese Coffey, a Conservative and practising Catholic, lost Suffolk coastal to Jenny Riddell-Carpenter, Labour.
Nick Fletcher, evangelical Christian and former MP for Don Valley, lost in the new seat of Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme, to Labour’s Lee Pitcher.
The Guardian has a searchable map of seats with full election results here
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