In the UK general election, Julian Huppert (Fellow) has been elected as Cambridge’s new Liberal Democrat MP, in succession to David Howarth (Fellow).
Elsewhere in the country, three Clare alumni were re-elected to parliament: Geoffrey Robinson (1959) retained Coventry North-West for Labour, Peter Lilley (1962) won Hitchin & Harpenden for the Conservatives, and Tim Loughton (1983) was returned for the Conservatives in Worthing East & Shoreham.