Holly Mumby-Croft

Holly Mumby-Croft is a British politician, who has been the Conservative member of Parliament for Scunthorpe since 2019.

This British surname is barrelled, being made up of multiple names. It should be written as Mumby-Croft, not Croft.

Holly Mumby-Croft

MP
Holly Mumby Croft in 2019.
Member of Parliament
for Scunthorpe
Assumed office
12 December 2019
Preceded byNic Dakin
Majority6,451 (17.1%)
Personal details
Political partyConservative

Personal life

Mumby-Croft's father was a steelworker at the Scunthorpe Steelworks.

Political career

Prior to her election as an MP, Mumby-Croft was elected as a councillor for the Broughton and Appleby ward on North Lincolnshire Council in 2015, and was re-elected in May 2019.[1]

Mumby-Croft stood in Scunthorpe at the 2017 general election, and came second.

She stood again in Scunthorpe at the 2019 general election. Mumby-Croft defeated the incumbent Labour MP Nic Dakin with a 17.1% majority, representing a 12.8% swing from Labour to Conservative.

In February 2020, Mumby-Croft praised plans to build a multi-million pound national flood training centre in Scunthorpe [2]

Mumby-Croft made her maiden speech on 6 March 2020, and talked about the town's steel industry and made a commitment to increased school funding and the upgrading of Scunthorpe General Hospital.[3]

In October 2020, Mumby-Croft was one of five Conservative MPs who broke the whip to vote for a Labour opposition day motion to extend the provision of free school meals during school holidays until Easter 2021.[4]

Electoral history

2019 general election
General election 2019: Scunthorpe[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Holly Mumby-Croft 20,306 53.8 +10.3
Labour Nic Dakin 13,855 36.7 -15.3
Brexit Party Jerry Gorman 2,044 5.4 +5.4
Liberal Democrats Ryk Downes 875 2.3 +0.9
Green Peter Dennington 670 1.8 +1.8
Majority 6,451 17.1 N/A
Turnout 37,750 60.9 -4.4
Conservative gain from Labour Swing +12.8

2017 general election
General election 2017: Scunthorpe[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Nic Dakin 20,916 52.0 +10.3
Conservative Holly Mumby-Croft 17,485 43.5 +10.3
UKIP Andy Talliss 1,247 3.1 -14.0
Liberal Democrats Ryk Downes 554 1.4 -0.7
Majority 3,431 8.5 0.0
Turnout 40,202 65.3 +7.6
Labour hold Swing +0.0

References
  1. "Scunthorpe parliamentary constituency". BBC News. 13 December 2019.
  2. "Plans revealed for national flood training centre in Scunthorpe". grimsbytelegraph. 13 February 2020. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  3. "Scunthorpe MP puts steel industry at centre of speech in Parliament". grimsbytelegraph. 6 March 2020. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  4. Ford, Gregory (22 October 2020). "Scunthorpe MP Holly Mumby-Croft reveals why she had to break Tory ranks in free school meals vote". Grimsby Live. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  5. "North Lincolnshire Council | General Election 2019 candidates for Scunthorpe". Retrieved 25 November 2019.
  6. "Scunthorpe parliamentary constituency". BBC News.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Nic Dakin		 Member of Parliament for Scunthorpe
2019–present		 Incumbent
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