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Bury South — 2024
Christian Wakeford (Labour Party) was elected with 19,247 votes— 45.6% of 42,214 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. 45.6% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −4.4 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 42,214
| 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 | Christian Wakeford | Labour Party | 19,247 | 45.6% | −4.4 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Arnie Saunders | Conservative Party | 9,886 | 23.4% | — | |
| 3 | Jeff Armstrong | Reform UK | 6,865 | 16.3% | — | |
| 4 | Michael Welton | Green Party | 2,715 | 6.4% | — | |
| 5 | Andrew Page | Liberal Democrats | 1,796 | 4.3% | — | |
| 6 | Sameera Ashraf | Workers Party of Britain | 1,023 | 2.4% | — | |
| 7 | Michael Elston | Independent | 277 | 0.7% | — | |
| 8 | Stephen Morris | English Democrats | 224 | 0.5% | — | |
| 9 | Dan Ross | Communist Party of Britain | 181 | 0.4% | — |
Source data: House of Commons Library general election results 2024, retrieved
2026-05-18, generated
2026-05-19
(Open Parliament Licence v3.0). ETL version parliament-etl@1. Methodology: how these numbers are computed.