It was always going to be tough for someone to step up to the plate after Andy Love hung up his MP boots in Edmonton.
Labour’s Kate Osamor rose to the challenge and blitzed the majority the former Labour stalwart held between 1997 and 2015, and now comfortably holds a 15,000 majority following this morning’s results.
Ms Osamor’s family has a history in politics. Her mother Martha was robbed of the chance to enter the House of Commons in 1989 when she was deselected as the candidate for the Vauxhall by-election by Neil Kinnock, leader of the party at the time.
No one was to deny her daughter the chance of being an MP this time around after she won the battle to become Labour candidate, beating off local councillors, and then comfortably winning the battle in Edmonton.
Opposition was slim: Gonul Daniels of the Conservatives received over 9,000 votes, 3,000 fewer than the Tories polled in 2010 in Edmonton.
As with the trend in the other Enfield constituencies, the Liberal Democrats lost a lot of voters.
David Schmitz received just 897 votes, the lowest total of any time the party has had a candidate in the constituency.
A surprise in Edmonton was to see UKIP poll 3,366 for Neville Watson, the third highest in the constituency.
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