UK general elections › 2024 › Dewsbury and Batley
Dewsbury and Batley — 2024
Iqbal Mohamed (Independent) was elected with 15,641 votes— 41.1% of 38,070 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. 41.1% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −8.9 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 38,070
| 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 | Iqbal Mohamed | Independent | 15,641 | 41.1% | −8.9 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Heather Iqbal | Labour Party | 8,707 | 22.9% | — | |
| 3 | Johnathan Thackray | Reform UK | 6,152 | 16.2% | — | |
| 4 | Lalit Suryawanshi | Conservative Party | 4,182 | 11.0% | — | |
| 5 | Simon Cope | Green Party | 2,048 | 5.4% | — | |
| 6 | John Rossington | Liberal Democrats | 1,340 | 3.5% | — |
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.