page_title: Chi Onwurah
section_title: 2017 and 2019 general elections
hierarchical_section_title: Chi Onwurah / Political career / 2017 and 2019 general elections
caption_attribution_description: English: Official portrait of Chinyelu Susan "Chi" Onwurah
context_page_description: Chinyelu Susan Onwurah is a British Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne Central since the 2010 general election.
  She was shadow minister for Industrial Strategy, Science and Innovation under Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn from October 2016 until 9 April 2020, when she was appointed as shadow minister for Science, Research & Digital by new leader Keir Starmer.
context_section_description: Onwurah retained her seat at the 2017 general election, increasing Labour's share of the vote to 65%. Newcastle Central was the first constituency to declare a result at the general election that year.
  She was re-elected at the 2019 general election, and again, Newcastle Central was the first seat in the United Kingdom to be declared. Her share of the vote fell to 57.6%, representing a majority of 12,278 votes, which was better than the national swing. The seat is currently the second safest Labour seat in the North East after the adjoining Newcastle upon Tyne East.
caption: Onwurah in 2017
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