East Surrey Conservatives were celebrating a decisive win this morning with the election of Sam Gyimah, who replaces Peter Ainsworth as MP.  The Conservative majority was 16,874,  nearly 1,000 higher than in the 2005 election.  There was a higher turnout as well this time around, with 71.28% of the population of East Surrey voting as opposed to 66.6% last time.

The results for all six candidates were as follows:

All the election results are available e on the following pages:

District election results

http://www.tandridge.gov.uk/YourCouncil/Elections/districtresults.htm

General election results

http://www.tandridge.gov.uk/YourCouncil/Elections/generalresults.htm