Abbas Hussain has been elected as the councillor for the Leen Valley ward following yesterday’s Nottingham City Council by-election.

The full result is as follows:

Abbas Hussain (Labour Party) – 689 votes

Parveen Begum (Nottingham People’s Alliance) – 523

Stuart Frost (Reform UK) – 410

Hugh McGuiness (Green Party) – 378

Gail Stancliffe (Conservative Party) – 189

Liz Morgan-Danvers (Liberal Democrats) – 68

Turnout in the by-election was 31.82%

The result means the political make-up of Nottingham City Council is now

Labour Group – 44 councillors

Nottingham People’s Alliance Group – 6 councillors

Nottingham Independents and Independent Group – 4 councillors

There is 1 councillor who is not a member of a political group.