UK general elections › 2019 › Halifax
Halifax — 2019
Holly Lynch (Labour Party) was elected with 21,496 votes— 46.3% of 46,458 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. 46.3% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −3.7 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 46,458
| 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 | Holly Lynch | Labour Party | 21,496 | 46.3% | −3.7 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Kashif Ali | Conservative Party | 18,927 | 40.7% | — | |
| 3 | Sarah Wood | The Brexit Party | 2,813 | 6.1% | — | |
| 4 | James Baker | Liberal Democrats | 2,276 | 4.9% | — | |
| 5 | Bella Jessop | Green Party | 946 | 2.0% | — |
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.