A record number of female MPs have been elected in the 2017 General Election and three Newnhamites have been re-elected.
Diane Abbott (NC 1973), Lucy Frazer (NC 1991) and Rupa Huq (NC 1990) all won their seats in their respective constituencies.
Abbott, Labour MP, secured her biggest ever majority in Hackney North and Stoke Newington and increased her share of the vote by nearly 11,000 to a final count of 42,265 votes – 75 per cent of the vote. Abbott made history in 1987 when she was the first black woman elected as an MP.
Frazer retained her Conservative seat in South East Cambridgeshire with 33,601 votes, up 4.9 per cent since she was first elected in 2015.
Huq held her Ealing Central & Acton seat for Labour with 33,037 votes increasing her 2015 majority of 274 votes to a majority of 13,807.
There are now 207 women in the Commons, up from 197.
Overall 32 per cent of MPs are women but there are significant variations between parties. For Labour the figure is 45 per cent, and 21 per cent for the Conservatives.