General Election: Conservatives hold Windsor as Jack Rankin wins seat

The Conservatives have held the Windsor seat after Jack Rankin was elected with 16,483 votes.

He takes over from previous Conservative MP Adam Afriyie, who stood down at this election after serving as MP for Windsor for 19 years. 

Labour's Pavitar K. Mann came in second place with 10,026 votes, while the Liberal Democrat's Julian Tisi got 9,539 votes. 

Reform UK's Harl Grewal received 4,660 votes, while the Green Party's Michael Boyle got 2,288 votes.

Independent David Buckley received 1,629 votes and Simran Kaur Dhillon of the Workers Party got 621 votes. 

There were 45, 419 votes cast in Windsor and 173 votes were rejected. 

The voter turnout was 61.93 per cent. 

In a speech following his election, Mr Rankin said: "It's an honour to be standing here this morning as the newly-elected Member of Parliament for all the beautiful towns and villages of the new Windsor constituency.

"I'm humbled to have people's support and I'd like to thank each and every one of you who trusted me with your vote."

Mr Tisi tweeted: "I’m sorry to say that it wasn’t to be in Windsor.

"Of course I’m bitterly disappointed with the result but grateful to my amazing team and everyone who voted Lib Dem."

In a video posted on X, Mr Rankin said he was 'deeply humbled' to be elected.

He added: "I’ve made some quite solemn commitments to be a local, vocal, accessible constituency member of Parliament first and foremost. You were very clear to me that what felt was missed over the past years and that’s what I wanted to correct.

"You’ll start to see me opening an office in central Windsor, you’ll start to see me in surgeries in each and every one of the towns and villages in the constituency and I think that might very well start at Rock the Rec tomorrow."