Rupert Lowe
Rupert Lowe | |
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 Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth | |
| Assumed office 4 July 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Sir Brandon Lewis |
| Majority | 1,426 (3.5%) |
| Member of the European Parliament for West Midlands | |
| In office 2 July 2019 – 31 January 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Daniel Dalton |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Rupert James Graham Lowe 31 October 1957 Oxford, Oxfordshire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Reform UK (whip suspended) |
| Other political affiliations | Referendum (1997) |
| Spouse(s) | Nicky Lowe |
| Children | 4 |
| Education | Radley College |
| Alma mater | University of Reading |
| Occupation |
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Rupert James Graham Lowe (born 31 October 1957) is a British politician and businessman. He was elected in as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the 2024 United Kingdom general election for the constituency of Great Yarmouth. The constituency of Great Yarmouth is in the county of Norfolk, in the English region of East Anglia. [1] He was elected as a MP Reform UK. He is currently suspended from the party. Before he was suspended from the party, Lowe was Reform UK's Business and Agriculture spokesman from his election in 2024 until his suspension in March 2025.
He has previously served as a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the West Midlands from 2019 to 2020. He represented the Brexit Party, the name of Reform UK before it was renamed. [2]
Lowe was chairman of Southampton Football Club from 1996 to 2006 and then again from 2008 to 2009. He lefted as the chairman when the club went into bankruptcy (administration).
Personal life
[change | change source]Lowe is a multi-millionaire.[1][3] He is married to Nicky Lowe and they have four children.[4]
Lowe owns Ravenswell Farm in Withington, near to Cheltenham in Gloucestershire. Racehorse trainer Fergal O'Brien works at the farm.[5]
Electoral history
[change | change source]| General election 2024: Great Yarmouth[6] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Reform UK | Rupert Lowe[7] | 14,385 | 35.3 | New | |
| Labour | Keir Cozens[8] | 12,959 | 31.8 | 6.7 | |
| Conservative | James Clark | 10,034 | 24.6 | -41.2 | |
| Green | Trevor Rawson[9] | 1,736 | 4.3 | 1.9 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Fionna Tod | 1,102 | 2.7 | -1.1 | |
| Independent | Paul Brown | 230 | 0.6 | New | |
| [[English Democrats|English Democrats]] | Catherine Blaiklock[10] | 171 | 0.4 | New | |
| Independent | Clare Roullier | 131 | 0.3 | New | |
| Majority | 1,426 | 1.9 | |||
| Turnout | 73,317 | 56 | -6.4 | ||
| Reform UK gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
| 2024 Kingswood by-election[11][12] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Damien Egan | 11,176 | 44.9 | +11.5 | |
| Conservative | Sam Bromiley | 8,675 | 34.9 | –21.3 | |
| Reform UK | Rupert Lowe | 2,578 | 10.4 | New | |
| Green | Lorraine Francis | 1,450 | 5.8 | +3.4 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Andrew Brown | 861 | 3.5 | –3.5 | |
| UKIP | Nicholas Wood | 129 | 0.5 | New | |
| Majority | 2,501 | 10.0 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 24,869 | 37.1 | –34.4 | ||
| Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +16.4 | |||
| European Election 2019: West Midlands[13] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| List | Candidates | Votes | % | ± | |
| Brexit Party | Rupert Lowe, Martin Daubney, Andrew England Kerr | 507,152 (169,050.67) |
37.66 | N/A | |
| Labour | Neena Gill | 228,298 | 16.95 | -9.76 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Phil Bennion | 219,982 | 16.33 | +10.77 | |
| Green | Ellie Chowns | 143,520 | 10.66 | +5.40 | |
| Conservative | Anthea McIntyre | 135,279 | 10.04 | -14.27 | |
| UKIP | 66,934 | 4.97 | -26.52 | ||
| Change UK | 45,673 | 3.39 | +3.39 | ||
| Turnout | 1,355,222 | 33.1 | 
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| 1997 general election: Cotswold[14][15] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 23,698 | 46.4 | −8.0 | |
| Liberal Democrats | David Gayler | 11,733 | 22.9 | −10.4 | |
| Labour | David Elwell | 11,608 | 22.7 | +11.8 | |
| Referendum | Rupert Lowe | 3,393 | 6.6 | – | |
| Green | Valerie Michael | 560 | 1.1 | – | |
| Natural Law | Henry Brighouse | 129 | 0.3 | – | |
| Majority | 11,965 | 23.4 | +2.4 | ||
| Turnout | 51,121 | 75.9 | −6.5 | ||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
References
[change | change source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Belam, Martin (20 September 2024). "Farage says Tory brand is 'bust' as other Reform UK speeches target immigrants, drag queens, vegans and more – as it happened". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 September 2024.
Multi-millionaire Rupert Lowe ...
- ↑ "West Midlands Region – 7 MEPs". European Parliament. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
- ↑ Fox-Leonard, Boudicca (8 December 2024). "How your pint of milk found itself at the centre of a new conspiracy war". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 27 December 2024.
The Reform MP for Great Yarmouth and multi-millionaire businessman Rupert Lowe posted on X: "I won't be consuming anything containing Bovaer."
- ↑ "Rupert the Chair". Daily Echo. 20 September 2024. Retrieved 25 August 2001.
- ↑ Armytage, Marcus (20 August 2005). "Smart move puts Fergal O'Brien on track to be top trainer". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
- ↑ "Great Yarmouth – General election results 2024". BBC News. Retrieved 3 December 2024.
- ↑ "Meet the ex-football boss who hopes to be your next MP". 28 April 2024.
- ↑ "Great Yarmouth's Labour Party candidate has been announced". Great Yarmouth Mercury. 11 August 2023. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
- ↑ "Our Candidates". Retrieved 1 June 2024.
- ↑ "Parliamentary Constituencies – Eastern". English Democrats. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
- ↑ "Statement of Persons Nominated" (PDF). South Gloucestershire Council. 19 January 2024. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 January 2024. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
- ↑ "Labour overturns Tory majority to win key by-election seat in Kingswood". BBC News. 16 February 2024. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
- ↑ "2019 European elections: List of candidates for the West Midlands". BBC News. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
- ↑ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ Percentage change and swing for 1997 is calculated relative to the Rallings and Thrasher 1992 notional constituency result, not actual 1992 result. See C. Rallings & M. Thrasher, The Media Guide to the New Parliamentary Constituencies (Plymouth: LGC Elections Centre, 1995)
Other websites
[change | change source]- Profile at Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Voting record at Public Whip
- Record in Parliament at TheyWorkForYou
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| Preceded by Brandon Lewis |
Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth 2024–present |
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