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Former GP Paul Williams won the Stockton South seat for Labour in the general election on 8 June, bringing the total number of MPs with a medical background up to nine.
Williams won the seat with a majority of 888 over the sitting Conservative MP James Wharton.
Six medics were elected for the Conservative party, including Sarah Wollaston, a GP and MP for Totnes, and Dan Poulter, a hospital doctor and former health minister, who was re-elected for the Central Suffolk and North Ipswich seat.
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