Sadik Al-Hassan was elected Labour MP for North Somerset on 4 July 2024 with 19,138 votes (35.6 percent) and a majority of 639 (1.2 percent), defeating Sir Liam Fox. He overturned a Conservative majority of 17,536 in a seat that had returned a Conservative since 1910, ending a 114-year hold. Fox had represented the area for 32 years and served as Defence Secretary, International Trade Secretary and Conservative Party Chairman. "There is no such thing as a safe seat," Al-Hassan said in his victory speech.

Born in December 1984 to an Iraqi father and an Irish mother and educated at the University of Bath, he is an award winning pharmacist and superintendent of the online pharmacy PillTime, and worked on the NHS frontline in Patchway during the Covid pandemic. He is one of 18 Labour Muslim MPs elected in 2024. His prior political experience was grassroots: a Labour councillor and Deputy Mayor at Emersons Green Town Council, a parish level body in South Gloucestershire. He lived in Lyde Green and worked at Cribbs Causeway, both on the far side of Bristol from the constituency, and has since moved to Pill within North Somerset.

He was selected only in May 2024 and contacted more than 13,000 people during the short campaign, asking voters to "lend" him their support. In November 2024 he joined a group of medic MPs backing assisted dying legislation, drawing on his clinical experience, and he served on the Tobacco and Vapes Bill Committee in January 2025. In an October 2024 BBC interview he described the net zero migration target as a "gimmick." He holds officer roles in several APPGs.

Al-Hassan's strengths include the University of Bath pharmacy qualification, an award winning professional background, NHS pandemic frontline service, the historic achievement of ending 114 years of Conservative representation, overturning a 17,536 majority, Iraqi Irish heritage representing diversity in a constituency that has historically lacked it, and the assisted dying advocacy drawing on clinical experience. His weaknesses include a 639 majority making this one of the most vulnerable seats in England, a 35.6 percent vote share meaning nearly two thirds voted for someone else, no select committee placement, no ministerial office, parish council rather than borough level prior experience, and having lived outside the constituency before the election. At 41, with the pharmacy background and a seat nobody expected Labour to hold, his career will be defined by whether 639 votes can become a sustainable majority. The pandemic frontline work, the pharmacy expertise, and the assisted dying advocacy give him three distinctive lanes. Whether any of them produces delivery visible to North Somerset voters before the next election is the only question that matters.