Sarah Pochin
Sarah Pochin | |
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Official portrait, 2025 | |
| Member of Parliament for Runcorn and Helsby | |
| Assumed office 1 May 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Mike Amesbury |
| Majority | 6 (0.02%) |
| Mayor of Cheshire East | |
| In office 25 November 2021 – 19 May 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Barry Burkhill |
| Succeeded by | David Marren |
| Member of Cheshire East Council | |
| In office 7 May 2015 – 4 May 2023 | |
| Ward | Willaston & Rope (2015–2019) Bunbury (2019–2023) |
| Preceded by | Brian Silvester |
| Succeeded by | Rebecca Posnett |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Sarah Joanne Hyde June 1969 (age 56) Gloucestershire, England |
| Party | Reform UK (since 2025) |
| Other political affiliations | Conservative (until 2020; 2022) Independent (2020–2022; 2022–2025) |
| Spouse |
Jonathan Pochin (m. 1996) |
| Children | 2 |
| Education | Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls |
| Alma mater | Loughborough University (BSc) |
| Occupation |
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Sarah Joanne Pochin (née Hyde, born June 1969) is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Runcorn and Helsby since a by-election in May 2025. She is Reform UK’s first female MP. She was previously the Mayor of Cheshire East and a local councillor, as well as a justice of the peace (JP).
Formerly a Conservative councillor who later sat as an independent member, she left the party and joined Reform UK. She currently holds the record for the smallest margin of victory in modern British by-election history, having overturned Labour's 14,700 majority from the 2024 general election by just six votes.