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Labour MP for Leeds East and Shadow Justice Secretary Richard Burgon has secured enough nominations to qualify for the next round of the deputy Labour leadership race.
Mr Burgon is one of five candidates for the position alongside, Angela Rayner, Ian Murray, Dawn Butler, and Rosena Allin-Khan.
He received 22 votes, the minimum needed to qualify for the next phase.
Leeds East MP Richard Burgon has announced he intends to stand to be Labour's deputy leader.
Writing on Twitter he said: "After a break and discussions with MPs and party members, I’m announcing that I'm standing to be Labour's Deputy Leader."
Mr Burgon, who is the Shadow Secretary of State for Justice and Shadow Lord Chancellor, was re-elected earlier this month but saw his majority drop from 12,752 to 5,531.
Jeremy Corbyn has said he will stand down as leader early next year in the wake of Labour's election defeat earlier this month, where much of the party's traditional Northern strongholds fell to the Conservatives.
While the timetable for the contest has yet to been announced, it is expected to begin next month, with a new leader set to be in place by the spring
Shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon has been re-elected as the MP for Leeds East, with a decreased majority.
The Labour candidate beat Conservative Jill Mortimer by 5,531 votes, less than half the majority at the 2017 election.
Sarah Wass of the Brexit Party came third and Liberal Democrat David Dresser came fourth.
Voter turnout was down by 4.8 percentage points since the last general election.
More than 39,000 people, 58% of those eligible to vote, went to polling stations across the area on Thursday, in the first December general election since 1923.
Two of the five candidates, David Dresser (Liberal Democrat) and Shahab Adris (Green) lost their £500 deposits after failing to win 5% of the vote.
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Reporter BBC Look North
Spotted this on the wall of Leeds Town Hall good advice for our future MPs perhaps!
| Party | Votes | % | Net percentage change in seats | ||
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Party
LAB Labour |
Richard Burgon | Votes 25,428 | header_vote_share 61.4 | Net percentage change in seats +7.6 | |
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Party
CON Conservative |
Matthew Robinson | Votes 12,676 | header_vote_share 30.6 | Net percentage change in seats +9.7 | |
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Party
UKIP UKIP |
Paul Spivey | Votes 1,742 | header_vote_share 4.2 | Net percentage change in seats -14.8 | |
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Party
LD Liberal Democrat |
Ed Sanderson | Votes 739 | header_vote_share 1.8 | Net percentage change in seats -1.6 | |
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Party
GRN Green Party |
Jaimes Moran | Votes 434 | header_vote_share 1.0 | Net percentage change in seats -1.9 | |
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Party
YRKS The Yorkshire Party |
John Otley | Votes 422 | header_vote_share 1.0 | Net percentage change in seats +1.0 | |
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