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Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket — 2024
Peter Prinsley (Labour Party) was elected with 16,745 votes— 32.9% of 50,893 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. 32.9% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −17.1 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 50,893
| 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 | Peter Prinsley | Labour Party | 16,745 | 32.9% | −17.1 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Will Tanner | Conservative Party | 15,293 | 30.0% | — | |
| 3 | Scott Hussey | Reform UK | 8,595 | 16.9% | — | |
| 4 | Emma Buckmaster | Green Party | 5,761 | 11.3% | — | |
| 5 | Peter McDonald | Liberal Democrats | 3,154 | 6.2% | — | |
| 6 | Jeremy Lee | Independent | 819 | 1.6% | — | |
| 7 | Richard Baker-Howard | Rejoin EU | 350 | 0.7% | — | |
| 8 | Darren Turner | Communist Party of Britain | 176 | 0.3% | — |
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.