UK general elections › 2019 › Reading West
Reading West — 2019
Alok Sharma (Conservative Party) was elected with 24,393 votes— 48.4% of 50,392 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. 48.4% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −1.6 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 50,392
| 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 | Alok Sharma | Conservative Party | 24,393 | 48.4% | −1.6 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Rachel Eden | Labour Party (Labour and Co-operative) | 20,276 | 40.2% | — | |
| 3 | Meri O'Connell | Liberal Democrats | 4,460 | 8.9% | — | |
| 4 | Jamie Witham | Green Party | 1,263 | 2.5% | — |
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.