UK general elections › 2024 › Central Devon
Central Devon — 2024
Mel Stride (Conservative Party) was elected with 16,831 votes— 31.5% of 53,432 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. 31.5% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −18.5 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 53,432
| 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 | Mel Stride | Conservative Party | 16,831 | 31.5% | −18.5 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Ollie Pearson | Labour Party | 16,770 | 31.4% | — | |
| 3 | Mark Wooding | Liberal Democrats | 8,232 | 15.4% | — | |
| 4 | Jeffrey Leeks | Reform UK | 7,784 | 14.6% | — | |
| 5 | Gill Westcott | Green Party | 3,338 | 6.2% | — | |
| 6 | Arthur Price | Independent | 477 | 0.9% | — |
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.