Sarah Green has said she was taken aback by the more than £50,000 worth of donations to her successful campaign to be re-elected as the MP for Chesham and Amersham.

The Liberal Democrat’s fighting fund for the July 4 general election was topped up with twice as much cash as those of her fellow Buckinghamshire MPs, with her donors including a tech entrepreneur, a billion-pound property firm and a town councillor.

Her well-funded campaign saw her emerge more than 5,000 votes ahead of her nearest rival, Conservative Gareth Williams, to comfortably hold the seat she stole from the Tories in 2021.

Ms Green said this week that she was ‘blown away’ by the backing she and her party received in the run-up to election night.

A spokesperson for her office told the Bucks Free Press: “A lot of that support came as financial donations to help run a campaign focused on local health services and saving the local environment.”

They said the money funded an office, staff, and campaign materials, while stressing that all payments were properly logged through the MP’s register of interests.

Led Zeppelin’s former soundman, Phil Dudderidge OBE, was among the donors to Ms Green and the Chesham and Amersham Lib Dems.

The sound engineering entrepreneur, who is chairman and founder of the Focusrite group, donated a total of £8,500 towards the MP’s re-election.

He told the Free Press: “I was delighted that Sarah had been elected in the by-election and was keen to ensure that she was given the best opportunity to win again.”

A staunch Lib Dem, Mr Dudderidge said he was ‘so pleased’ to have met the MP, who he described as a ‘very serious and committed young politician’ who ‘serves her constituency well’.

He said: “Having the chance to help Sarah retain her seat with a significant donation seemed the right thing to do and I’m delighted with the successful outcome.”

The businessman added that he was ‘disappointed’ his village of Great Missenden was moved from Chesham and Amersham into the Mid Bucks constituency under boundary changes, but that the new seat’s Lib Dem candidate Anja Schaefer had also ‘enjoyed his practical and financial support’.

Another of Ms Green’s election donors included Adam Management Holdings, a property and consultancy company based in Canary Wharf.

The firm declined to comment on its £5,000 donation but says on its website it has a global turnover of £1 billion and employs over 2,000 staff.

Another company which donated to Ms Green was software firm Wolfwyse Ltd, run by Jonathan and Margaret Hildreth.

The organisation is one of around 30 companies that have been registered at 36 Wattleton Road in Beaconsfield, a house in the MP Joy Morrissey’s constituency.

Ms Green’s other donations over the last year include a total of £7,600 from Daniel Gallagher and £1,600 from Donna Westall, the chair of governors at Chalfont St Giles Village School.

She told the Free Press: “I respect Sarah’s hard work and dedication to the constituency and donated to her campaign as well as volunteering as I wanted to see her re-elected.”

Another donor was Mark Roberts, a Lib Dem member of Amersham Town Council, who donated a total of £3,950 to Ms Green’s campaign.

He said: “Campaigns are expensive and as a party we rely primarily on donations from individual members and supporters to fund our activities.”

Ms Green’s financial filings also list hospitality she received from multinational alcoholic beverage giant Diageo, whose brands include Guinness, Baileys and Smirnoff.

She said the company paid for her and other MPs to attend a dinner to ‘discuss challenges facing the hospitality and drinks industries’.