Rupert Lowe

Rupert Lowe

MP
Official portrait, 2024
Member of Parliament
for Great Yarmouth [en]
Assumed office
4 July 2024
Preceded bySir Brandon Lewis
Majority1,426 (3.5%)
Member of the European Parliament
for West Midlands
In office
2 July 2019 – 31 January 2020
Preceded byDaniel Dalton
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Personal details
Born
Rupert James Graham Lowe

(1957-10-31) 31 October 1957 (age 68)
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
NationalityBritish
Political partyRestore Britain (2026–present)
Reform UK (2019–2021, 2023–2025)
Other political
affiliations		Referendum (1997)
Spouse(s)Nicky Lowe
Children4
EducationRadley College
Alma materUniversity of Reading
Occupation
  • Politician
  • businessman

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 [en]. The constituency of Great Yarmouth is in the county of Norfolk, in the English region of East Anglia. 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.

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 [en]).

Personal life

Lowe is a multi-millionaire. He is married to Nicky Lowe and they have four children.

Lowe owns Ravenswell Farm in Withington, near to Cheltenham in Gloucestershire. Racehorse trainer Fergal O'Brien works at the farm.

Electoral history

General election 2024: Great Yarmouth [en]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Reform Rupert Lowe 14,385 35.3 New
Labour Keir Cozens 12,959 31.8 6.7
Conservative James Clark 10,034 24.6 -41.2
Green Trevor Rawson 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 [en]|English Democrats [:en:English Democrats]]] Catherine Blaiklock [en] 171 0.4 New
Independent Clare Roullier 131 0.3 New
Majority 1,426 1.9
Turnout 73,317 56 -6.4
Reform gain from Conservative Swing

Template:Election box Registered electors

2024 Kingswood by-election [en]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Damien Egan 11,176 44.9 +11.5
Conservative Sam Bromiley 8,675 34.9 –21.3
Reform 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
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 Steady

Template:Election box Registered electors

1997 general election: Cotswold
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

  1. 1 2 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 ...
  2. ↑ "West Midlands Region – 7 MEPs". European Parliament. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  3. ↑ 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."
  4. ↑ "Rupert the Chair". Daily Echo. 20 September 2024. Retrieved 25 August 2001.
  5. ↑ Armytage, Marcus (20 August 2005). "Smart move puts Fergal O'Brien on track to be top trainer". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
  6. ↑ "Great Yarmouth – General election results 2024". BBC News. Retrieved 3 December 2024.
  7. ↑ "Meet the ex-football boss who hopes to be your next MP". 28 April 2024.
  8. ↑ "Great Yarmouth's Labour Party candidate has been announced". Great Yarmouth Mercury. 11 August 2023. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
  9. ↑ "Our Candidates". Retrieved 1 June 2024.
  10. ↑ "Parliamentary Constituencies – Eastern". English Democrats. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
  11. ↑ "Statement of Persons Nominated" (PDF). South Gloucestershire Council. 19 January 2024. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 January 2024. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
  12. ↑ "Labour overturns Tory majority to win key by-election seat in Kingswood". BBC News. 16 February 2024. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
  13. ↑ "2019 European elections: List of candidates for the West Midlands". BBC News. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  14. ↑ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  15. ↑ 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)

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Parliament of the United Kingdom (1801–present)
Preceded by
Brandon Lewis		 Member of Parliament
for Great Yarmouth [en]
2024–present		 Incumbent