Holly Mumby-Croft
MP
Official portrait, 2019
Member of Parliament
for Scunthorpe
Assumed office
12 December 2019
Preceded byNic Dakin
Majority6,451 (17.1%)
Personal details
BornJuly 1985 (age 38)
Scunthorpe, England
Political partyConservative
EducationSir John Nelthorpe School
Alma materLincoln University

Holly Mumby-Croft (born July 1985)[1] is a British Conservative Party politician, serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Scunthorpe since 2019.

Early life

Mumby-Croft was born in Scunthorpe. She attended Sir John Nelthorpe School in Brigg and Brigg Sixth-Form College followed by reading English and History at the University of Lincoln.[2]

Political career

Prior to her election as an MP, Mumby-Croft was elected as a councillor for the Broughton and Appleby ward on North Lincolnshire Council in 2015, and was re-elected in May 2019 but subsequently stood down upon being elected to Parliament.[3]

Mumby-Croft stood in Scunthorpe at the 2017 general election, and came second. She stood again at the 2019 general election, and defeated the incumbent Labour MP Nic Dakin, winning with a 17.1% majority. This represented a 12.8% swing from Labour to Conservative.

In February 2020, Mumby-Croft praised plans to build a multi-million pound national flood training centre in Scunthorpe.[4] Mumby-Croft made her maiden speech on 6 March 2020, and talked about the town's steel industry. She also made a commitment to increased school funding and the upgrading of Scunthorpe General Hospital.[5]

In October 2020, Mumby-Croft was one of five Conservative MPs who broke the whip to vote for a Labour opposition day motion to extend the provision of free school meals during school holidays until Easter 2021.[6]

Electoral history

2019 general election

General election 2019: Scunthorpe[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Holly Mumby-Croft 20,306 53.8 +10.3
Labour Nic Dakin 13,855 36.7 -15.3
Brexit Party Jerry Gorman 2,044 5.4 +5.4
Liberal Democrats Ryk Downes 875 2.3 +0.9
Green Peter Dennington 670 1.8 +1.8
Majority 6,451 17.1 N/A
Turnout 37,750 60.9 -4.4
Conservative gain from Labour Swing +12.8

2017 general election

General election 2017: Scunthorpe[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Nic Dakin 20,916 52.0 +10.3
Conservative Holly Mumby-Croft 17,485 43.5 +10.3
UKIP Andy Talliss 1,247 3.1 -14.0
Liberal Democrats Ryk Downes 554 1.4 -0.7
Majority 3,431 8.5 0.0
Turnout 40,202 65.3 +7.6
Labour hold Swing +0.0

References

  1. ↑ Brunskill, Ian (19 March 2020). The Times guide to the House of Commons 2019 : the definitive record of Britain's historic 2019 General Election. p. 323. ISBN 978-0-00-839258-1. OCLC 1129682574.
  2. ↑ "About Holly Mumby-Croft".
  3. ↑ "Scunthorpe parliamentary constituency". BBC News. 13 December 2019.
  4. ↑ "Plans revealed for national flood training centre in Scunthorpe". grimsbytelegraph. 13 February 2020. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  5. ↑ "Scunthorpe MP puts steel industry at centre of speech in Parliament". grimsbytelegraph. 6 March 2020. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  6. ↑ Ford, Gregory (22 October 2020). "Scunthorpe MP Holly Mumby-Croft reveals why she had to break Tory ranks in free school meals vote". Grimsby Live. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  7. ↑ "North Lincolnshire Council | General Election 2019 candidates for Scunthorpe". Retrieved 25 November 2019.
  8. ↑ "Scunthorpe parliamentary constituency". BBC News.
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