Steve Yemm | |
Office: | Member of Parliament for Mansfield |
Term Start: | 4 July 2024 |
Honorific Suffix: | MP |
Party: | Labour |
Majority: | 3,485 (8.5%) |
Predecessor: | Ben Bradley |
Alma Mater: | University of Nottingham (BSc) |
Birth Name: | Stephen Yemm |
Stephen Yemm (born) is a British Labour Party politician who has been Member of Parliament for Mansfield since 2024.
Yemm received a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Chemistry from the University of Nottingham.[1]
He was the Labour candidate in the 2011 Mansfield mayoral election, and defeated by Mansfield Independent Forum candidate Tony Egginton by a majority of 67 votes on second preference voting.
Prior to becoming an MP, Yemm worked in IT and was a long-term chairman of Mansfield's local Labour group between 2008 and 2017.[2] [3]
Yemm was elected as Member of Parliament for Mansfield at the 2024 general election, defeating his Conservative predecessor Ben Bradley.[4] [5]
Yemm has three adult daughters with his wife,[3] a consultant radiographer at Kings Mill Hospital. He has lived in Mansfield all his life.[6]