UK general elections2024 › Folkestone and Hythe

Folkestone and Hythe — 2024

Tony Vaughan (Labour Party) was elected with 15,020 votes34.7% of 43,246 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. 34.7% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −15.3 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 43,246

RankCandidatePartyVotesShare 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
1Tony Vaughan Labour Party 15,02034.7%−15.3 ptsElected
2Damian Collins Conservative Party 11,29126.1%
3Bill Wright Reform UK 10,68524.7%
4Marianne Brett Green Party 3,9549.1%
5Larry Ngan Liberal Democrats 1,7364.0%
6Momtaz Khanom Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition 2490.6%
7David Allen Fairer Voting Party 2400.6%
8Andy Thomas The Socialist Party of Great Britain 710.2%

Electorate 70,056 · Turnout 61.7% · Majority 3,729 · Back to 2024 overview

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.