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Conservative candidate Jill Mortimer secured 15,529 votes, while Labour hopeful Dr Paul Williams won 8589. Her total number of votes was 51.88% of those cast, and represented 6940 more votes than her Labour competitor received. Labour sources say Sir Keir Starmer will “take responsibility for these results”, but took a thinly veiled swipe at his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn, adding the party “has not changed nearly enough for voters to place their trust in us”. Under Corbyn’s leadership Labour won Hartlepool with 15,464 votes, with their vote share down by about 14%. A major electoral change since then has been the collapse of support for the Brexit Party/Reform UK, which won 25.8% of the vote in 2019.