UK general elections › 2019 › Dewsbury
Dewsbury — 2019
Mark Eastwood (Conservative Party) was elected with 26,179 votes— 46.4% of 56,389 valid votes. Under First Past the Post, a plurality is enough; a majority is not required.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 46.4% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −3.6 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 56,389
| Rank | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share of votes Candidate votes ÷ valid votes in this constituency. Matches the share the returning officer publishes. | Below quota Elected candidate's share of valid votes minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = won the seat below the quota; positive = cleared it. | Elected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mark Eastwood | Conservative Party | 26,179 | −3.6 pts | Elected | |
| 2 | Paula Sherriff | Labour Party | 24,618 | — | ||
| 3 | John Rossington | Liberal Democrats | 2,406 | — | ||
| 4 | Philip James | The Brexit Party | 1,874 | — | ||
| 5 | Simon Cope | Green Party | 1,060 | — | ||
| 6 | Archibald Stanton | Official Monster Raving Loony Party | 252 | — |
Source data: House of Commons Library general election results 2019, retrieved
2026-05-19, generated
2026-05-19
(Open Parliament Licence v3.0). ETL version parliament-etl@1. Methodology: how these numbers are computed.