25 YEARS AGO ANDREW TURNER WON ISLE OF WIGHT CONSTITUENCY AFTER DRAMATIC COUNT

25 YEARS AGO ANDREW TURNER WON ISLE OF WIGHT CONSTITUENCY AFTER DRAMATIC COUNT

After an exhausting overnight count in Newport, Conservative Andrew Turner won the Isle of Wight constituency 25 years ago today. The declaration finally came late in the afternoon of 8th June 2001 following one of the longest and most chaotic election counts in the Island’s modern political history. Conservative candidate Andrew Turner defeated sitting Liberal Democrat MP Peter Brand by 2,826 votes, regaining the constituency for the Conservati…