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Halifax — 2024
Kate Dearden (Labour Party) was elected with 14,135 votes— 35.1% of 40,214 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. 35.1% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −14.9 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 40,214
| 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 | Kate Dearden | Labour Party (Labour and Co-operative) | 14,135 | −14.9 pts | Elected | |
| 2 | Hazel Sharp | Conservative Party | 7,866 | — | ||
| 3 | James Griffith-Jones | Reform UK | 7,811 | — | ||
| 4 | Martin Hey | Green Party | 4,133 | — | ||
| 5 | Shakir Saghir | Workers Party of Britain | 2,543 | — | ||
| 6 | Samuel Jackson | Liberal Democrats | 2,359 | — | ||
| 7 | Perveen Hussain | Independent | 1,367 | — |
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.