UK general elections › 2019 › Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford — 2019
Yvette Cooper (Labour Party) was elected with 18,297 votes— 37.9% of 48,259 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. 37.9% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −12.1 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 48,259
| 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 | Yvette Cooper | Labour Party | 18,297 | −12.1 pts | Elected | |
| 2 | Andrew Lee | Conservative Party | 17,021 | — | ||
| 3 | Deneice Florence-Jukes | The Brexit Party | 8,032 | — | ||
| 4 | Tom Gordon | Liberal Democrats | 3,147 | — | ||
| 5 | Laura Walker | The Yorkshire Party | 1,762 | — |
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.