2022 Wakefield by-election

A by-election for the United Kingdom parliamentary constituency of Wakefield was held on 23 June 2022. It was triggered by the resignation, on 3 May 2022, of Member of Parliament (MP) Imran Ahmad Khan, who was elected as a Conservative at the 2019 general election and resigned following a criminal conviction for child sexual assault. Ahmad Khan was subsequently jailed for 18 months.

2022 Wakefield by-election
23 June 2022
Wakefield constituency
Registered69,601
Turnout39.1% ( 25.0 pp)
  First party Second party Third party
 
Con
Ind
Candidate Simon Lightwood Nadeem Ahmed Akef Akbar
Party Labour Conservative Independent
Popular vote 13,166 8,241 2,090
Percentage 47.9% 30.0% 7.7%
Swing 8.6pp 17.0pp New
MP before election

Imran Ahmad Khan
Conservative

 Elected MP

Simon Lightwood
Labour

The election was won by Simon Lightwood of the Labour Party, and was the first by-election gain made by Labour since 2012. It was held on the same day as the Tiverton and Honiton by-election in Devon, which the Conservatives lost to the Liberal Democrats. This marked the first time since the 1991 Kincardine and Deeside and Langbaurgh by-elections that a British government had lost two seats in by-elections on the same day.

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