UK general elections › 2024 › Faversham and Mid Kent
Faversham and Mid Kent — 2024
Helen Whately (Conservative Party) was elected with 14,816 votes— 31.8% of 46,594 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. 31.8% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −18.2 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 46,594
| 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 | Helen Whately | Conservative Party | 14,816 | 31.8% | −18.2 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Mel Dawkins | Labour Party | 13,347 | 28.6% | — | |
| 3 | Maxwell Harrison | Reform UK | 9,884 | 21.2% | — | |
| 4 | Hannah Temple | Green Party | 4,218 | 9.1% | — | |
| 5 | Hannah Perkin | Liberal Democrats | 4,158 | 8.9% | — | |
| 6 | Lawrence Rustem | British Democratic Party | 171 | 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.