UK general elections › 2019 › Reading East
Reading East — 2019
Mathew Rodda (Labour Party) was elected with 27,102 votes— 48.5% of 55,918 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. 48.5% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −1.5 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 55,918
| 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 | Mathew Rodda | Labour Party | 27,102 | 48.5% | −1.5 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Craig Morley | Conservative Party | 21,178 | 37.9% | — | |
| 3 | Imogen Shepherd-Dubey | Liberal Democrats | 5,035 | 9.0% | — | |
| 4 | David McElroy | Green Party | 1,549 | 2.8% | — | |
| 5 | Mitchell Feierstein | The Brexit Party | 852 | 1.5% | — | |
| 6 | Yemi Awolola | Christian Peoples Alliance | 202 | 0.4% | — |
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.